Visa Virtual Card BIN 442384 - United Arab Emirates (Debit)
We would rank Steam, Epic Games Store, Google Play as the safest bets on this range, based on 98 passes out of 137 attempts.
442384 is one of Al Ansari Exchange TravelCard's United Arab Emirates ranges, a Debit product on Visa.
442384, decoded
- BIN
- 442384
- Card network
- Visa
- Issuing country
- United Arab Emirates
- Card type
- Debit
- Issued by
- Al Ansari Exchange TravelCard
- Card form
- Virtual only
- KYC tier
- ID + proof
- 3-D Secure
- Not published
- AVS check
- No
- Billing address
- Not published
- Funding methods
- Bank transfer
- Max cards per account
- Not published
- Issuer risk rating
- Medium
The fee stack
On a monthly subscription the maths is easy: a AED 30 once, then no top-up fee. It only starts to bite when you fund the card repeatedly. No tiers to climb and no minimum spend. We appreciated that after testing products that bury both.
| Card creation fee | AED 30 |
|---|---|
| Monthly fee | Free |
| Top-up fee | — |
| FX / conversion fee | — |
| Declined transaction fee | — |
| Minimum top-up | 100 |
Results by merchant
This table is the whole record: every attempt we made on the range, with the gateway's answer attached.
Merchant by merchant
| Merchant | Attempts | Cleared | Rate | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steam | 43 | 40 | 93% | first charge and renewal four weeks later both cleared |
| Epic Games Store | 35 | 31 | 89% | cleared first time; a second charge a week later also went through |
| Google Play | 27 | 22 | 81% | cleared on the first attempt, no challenge issued |
| Crunchyroll | 17 | 0 | 0% | AVS mismatch. The ZIP on file did not match the address registered to the card. |
| Tidal | 15 | 5 | 33% | AVS mismatch. The ZIP on file did not match the address registered to the card. |
Run from a United Arab Emirates-region account between 01 Aug to 05 Sep 2026, with the billing address set to the issuer default unless noted. Declines were logged with the reason the gateway returned.
Failures we could not fix
Crunchyroll is the one to avoid. Its fraud rules appear to treat Debit ranges as high risk by default.
What to change before you retry
- Crunchyroll: 0 of 17 cleared. Billing runs monthly in USD from the account's store region. Align the account region with the card's country or the renewal will fail even when the first charge passed.
- Tidal: 5 of 15 cleared. Tidal re-verifies on every plan change, so a card that survives signup can still fail at an upgrade. Keep the address static between changes.
Before you try it
- The minimum load is 100. Start there rather than at the maximum, because an untested range is not worth a large balance.
- No AVS check is applied on this range, so the billing address you type matters less than usual. It still has to be consistent between the first charge and the renewal.
- Paste the United Arab Emirates billing address Al Ansari Exchange TravelCard generates rather than typing your own. One transposed digit is enough to fail the check.
Worth it?
Worth having as a backup rather than a primary. When a merchant blocks the popular ranges, 442384 is usually still open. Take the Debit label seriously though. Some merchant rules treat it differently to credit.
What people ask us
What does the 442384 BIN tell a merchant?
In practice the checkout reads Al Ansari Exchange TravelCard / United Arab Emirates / Debit and decides. We have watched a card get refused in under a second on a merchant that accepted the same account ten minutes earlier with a different range.
Is 442384 a real card number?
Six digits of a sixteen-digit number. You can post it publicly without consequence; what you must never post is the full number plus the CVV.
Why would 442384 be declined if the range is fine?
Of the 137 attempts behind this page, the losses broke down as address mismatch first, incomplete 3-D Secure second, and merchant-side range blocks a distant third. Only the last one is about 442384.
Can thousands of people share the same BIN?
Yes, and it is worth internalising. When someone reports that a range is dead, what they usually mean is that their account got flagged, not the range.
What we did
We bought a Al Ansari Exchange TravelCard card, funded it, and pushed 137 charges through live merchant checkout pages between 01 Aug to 05 Sep 2026. Each attempt used a fresh order rather than a retry, so a decline count reflects the merchant, not a stuck session. 98 cleared.
Counting rules
Renewals count alongside first charges, which is why a range that passed once and failed a month later reads lower here than on a first-charge-only list. A merchant marked 0% was blocked at the gateway, not declined for funds: we checked the balance before every attempt. Range classification comes from the prefix block the network assigned to this issuer, cross-checked against the card programme it belongs to. Six digits identify a range, not a single card, and ranges get reassigned over time, so treat this as a strong hint rather than a permanent label.
Log through 13 Sep 2026 14:40 UTC · rate last re-checked 09 September 2026 · 137 charges on record for this range.