The "Master" Card

Item #: SCP-3673
Object Class: Euclid **
Special Containment Procedures: ** SCP-3673 is to be contained within a 0.25m3 lockbox made from a titanium-chromium alloy. This lockbox is to be contained within maximum-security item containment cell-27 in site-██. The containment cell must have a single entrance, which can be shut, locked, and the cell filled with Class-A ███████ Kill agent in the event of a site-wide lockdown. The containment cell entrance must be guarded by at least 2 armed guards at all times, unless in the case of a site-wide lockdown, in which the armed guards assigned to SCP-3673 must shut and lock the main entrance to the cell, and the cell must be filled with Class-A ███████ Kill agent. The lockbox containing SCP-3673 is to be locked with a steel alloy eight-digit combination lock whose password is to be known only by Foundation Personnel: Dr. Zoe ███████, [TERMINATED], O5-█, Junior Researcher Erik █████, and Senior Researcher Nick ███████. Only if one or more of these members is confirmed dead, can foundation personnel of equal or greater clearance be granted access to the lockbox combination code to take their place. Any personnel who are going to be granted the code must undergo a full psychiatric evaluation and approved mentally stable, and adequately loyal to the foundation by at least 2 Senior Medical Officers.
[CONTAINMENT DATA REDACTED]
Containment Procedures have been modified due to incident 3673-S (See addendum 3673-A)
By order of the O5 Council, regular access to SCP-3673’s containment cell is limited to maintenance purposes only, under armed guard surveillance. Access to SCP-3673’s containment cell for testing or observational purposes must be approved by at least 2(two) O5 Personnel & Senior Researcher Nick ███████. It is strictly prohibited, under any circumstances, for anyone other than Class D- Personnel to initiate a transaction using SCP-3673, due to its memetic affects. It is also prohibited for Class-D Personnel to be used to purchase items to benefit the Foundation unless O5-Order: Ploutos has been activated by the O5 Council. (See addendum O-3673).

**Description: ** SCP-3673 is a Black Credit Card measuring 85.6mm wide, 54mm long and 0.76 mm thick, and weighing 5.07 Grams. There are no physically or chemically anomalous properties to SCP-3673 that would make it distinguishable from a regular ATM Card, besides the atypicality of the numbers on the front. The card itself is made of standard PVCA plastic. Indented on the front of the card is the Credit Card number: ████ ████ ████ 3673, the EXP. (Assumed to be the Expiration date): 1/∞, and a string of numbers between the former and latter: 541222415241, that consists solely of 5’s, 4’s, 1’s, and 2’s. At the bottom-front of the card is the name of SCP-3673-1, or the “Cardholder” per say. On the Top-front, there is an unidentified logo. It looks like a [DATA EXPUNGED]. [DATA EXPUNGED]. Years of research has dug up no information on the logo. It is unknown the importance of the Expiration Date or the random string of numbers. On the reverse side of the card is a black mag-stripe, and the CVC number, ███, located directly in the center. SCP-3673 currently has 4 discovered anomalous properties to-date.

1) SCP-3673 cannot be traced to any bank or checking/savings/etc. account. This should render SCP-3673’s 2nd property impossible, due to the fact it is only a credit card, which merely draws from a holding of money. It is unknown if SCP-3673 is withdrawing money from a bank account, or if there is any bank account linked to it at all. A multitude of banks, including [DATA EXPUNGED], were confronted about SCP-3673, however none took responsibility for its creation.

2) SCP-3673 can be used to make any transaction, of any currency, to any account, no matter the monetary value being deducted from the Card’s Account, or how much has been previously deducted. In short, until evidence shows disproof of this, SCP-3673 is considered has an infinite amount of currency available to spend in any transaction withdrawing from its “account”. (See Addendum 3673-B)

3) Despite having the exact chemical composition and atomic structure of PVCA plastic, SCP-3673 is completely indestructible, and has resisted all types of damage the foundation has and can possibly offer. (See Addendum 3673-C)

4) Whenever a human (here-on referred too as SCP-3673-1) first initiates a transaction using SCP-3673, the name indented onto the card will, over the course of 2-17 minutes, “morph” into an indentation of SCP-3673-1’s name, completely replacing whatever name was previously there. Regardless of what name SCP-3673-1 may have listed elsewhere (Ex. Listing a fake name or a pseudonym on a pre-transaction information form or contract for example), the card’s name will always morph into the first and last legal name of SCP-3673-1. After making the first transaction, if left unchecked, SCP-3673-1 will seek out and purchase seemingly any item for sale, regardless if they were informed of SCP-3673’s anomalous nature or not. With each purchase made, SCP-3673-1 will become increasingly “greedier” and seek out more expensive items to buy. (See Addendum 3673-0). SCP-3673-1 will return to their previous state of financial integrity after another subject makes a transaction (Who therefore becomes SCP-3673-1). When no longer under the influence of SCP-3673-1, subject will have a recollection of the events that took place while under SCP-3673’s influence. However, they will not be able to provide justification for why they purchased the items they did.

+ Addendum 3673-0 

SCP-3673 was initially located after a report was received from Agent [REDACTED] on July 1, 1990, who was positioned as an informant within the White House under the position of Economic Advisor at the time. The report stated that the DOW had dropped by █% in approx. 12 hours. [REDACTED] stated that, ██ Days Prior to the sending of their report, ████ Kilometers of land in the Middle East, Canada, and ██████ was purchased in 3 transactions total amounting to approximately ██ Trillion Dollars’ worth of land value, which raised
Oil prices by ██% in the US alone as the oil companies who previously operated there no longer had the rights to mine oil in that area. The transactions could not be traced back to any bank, however, each transaction had the same Card Holder’s name (Alex ███████), Credit Card number and CVC of the card now assigned the SCP-3673 Classification, attached to the transactions’ receipts. Using car, stock, and real-estate purchases (Amounting to nearly ███ Million US Dollars) made from the same Card Information and Card Holder Name, a team of Foundation Intelligence Personnel, self-designated “Operative Unit: Uncle Sam”, tracked the transactions to a Mansion in ██████, █████, United States. OU: Uncle Sam confronted Alex ███████ and begun questioning him at his doorstep. [DATA EXPUNGED] preceded and subject was terminated by a Foundation Specialist after █ hours of hostage negotiation. SCP-3673 was recovered from the mansion and handed over to the SCP Foundation after being identified as the card used for the transactions. The ████ Kilometers of land was returned to the owners, and 72% of the money recovered. A thus-far successful misinformation campaign that blames the July 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait for the rise in oil prices and claims an 18% (Realistically ██%) decrease of the DOW in 3 months, was enacted to prevent global confusion and conspiracy.
Note: It is unknown whether Alex ███████ created, discovered, or obtained SCP-3673 from another person. In other words, SCP-3673’s origins are entirely unknown, and there are no leads that would warrant further investigation. It is most probable that, due to Alex being terminated before he could be questioned, this information will never be discovered.

+ Addendum O-3673

**February 22nd, 2009 - Request for Order-3673 To Be Implemented by the O5 Council. - Senior Researcher Nick ███████ **
I am formally requesting that Order-3673 be approved as an available Order for the O5 Council at any time if they deem so necessary to activate. Order-3673 is an Order by the O5 Council, activated via a 4/5 vote by the Council, to allow the usage of SCP-3673 to be used to fund the SCP Foundation in times of extreme need for funding, or if a project of dire necessity arises that is not feasible with current foundation funding. Face it, our current finances will not last forever, we need a fallback plan, and this is the perfect item for it.

** March 2nd, 20 – Request For Order-3673 To Be Implemented Under Consideration. - – 05-██ **

Order-3673 is currently being introduced and considered by the O5 Council. If it is deemed necessary to implement as an available method of funding, it will be introduced. If not, then Order-3673 will not be available, and SCP-3673 will not under any circumstances be used for the benefit of the SCP Foundation.

October 17th 2018 – O5 Order: Ploutos Approved As An Available Method of Emergency Funding for the Foundation – 05-█

Order-3673 has been renamed O5 Order: Ploutos, after the Greek god of wealth, and approved as an order available whenever the foundation is deemed in dire need of funding by at least a ¾ vote from the O5 Council.

+ Addendum 3673-C

A complete list of all Foundation-tested means of destroying, damaging, or otherwise affecting SCP-3673’s physical state, from 1993-Present. All the listed means have been completely unsuccessful at even atomically affecting SCP-3673. (Ranked, lowest to highest, in order of amount of damage that would be done to a normal Credit Card)
High Heat, Non-Explosive Methods: ** Wood/coal/propane/hydrogen-burning fire, steel cutting torch, plasma torch, furnace baked at 728° for 5.2 hours, napalm, ark welder, tesla gate, exposure to high energy [REDACTED] beam for 12.4 seconds. Request for testing with SCP-457 was denied.
Chemical Methods: ** Model Glue, Hydrochloric acid, Sulfuric acid, Nitric Acid, Chromic Acid, Acetic acid, Ammonium hydroxide, Potassium hydroxide, Sodium hydroxide.
Ballistic/High Force Methods: ** Bending, Cutting, Hit with a baseball bat, Dr. Clef’s dog, 9mm handgun, .45 ACP, 23-ton hydraulic press, ████ PSI 1mm water jet stream, 0.0021% Atmospheres vacuum, .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .454 Casull, .500 SMW, 12-gauge shotgun slug, .762 x 39, .338 Lapua, .50 BMG, Primitive Cannon, GAU-8.
Explosives: ** Firecracker, 1Lb of C4, 35mm Grenade Launcher, 5Lbs of C4, 25Lbs C4, SMAW Anti-Tank, 460Lbs MOAB, [REDACTED] 20mm Foundation Railgun Round.

**Note from Senior Researcher Nick ███████: ** Since SCP-3673 is the typical Credit Card weight of 5.07 Grams, any methods more powerful than the aforementioned will likely result in SCP-3673 being launched so far away from the test site, that the item will be irretrievable.