First time I ever order something from Amazon I used my user online user name Pac-Rat and couldn’t figure out why USPS put a hold on my package. When It arrived with Pacrat??? On the shipping label (and a week late) clued me in on what was wrong so I can’t recommend you do this for the sake of postal workers sanity.
My bank transactions already have my name plastered on every single one, and I certainly don't want any trouble with my courier due to me using a false name, so I don't do it. This doesn't mean that I don't make sure not to share my name online at all times.
Nice try, Rob.
I use my real name, but I'll put the business as my middle name. So when l get an email saying "Dear John StoreName Doe", I'll know who either got hacked or sold my info.
I don’t think I’ve ever used a fake name to order anything online.
I can understand doing it for something potentially embarrassing or compromising, but until I saw this post it never even crossed my mind that there might be people that do it as a matter of course.
Same here. If it ever got lost or I had to pick it up from the post office, it'd be pretty hard to prove I'm Fred Flintstone.
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My name is on the credit card, so shipping it to a fake name isn’t doing anything but potentially drawing attention to myself.
privacy.com is available if you're in he US
But this is essentially shifting trust to them instead. Its like a VPN, but for payments. But given the nature of anti-money-laundering laws, its only safe from like amazon or your bank (provided you trust privacy.com to not sell your data); The government can definitely have no issues supoena all your purchases.
That and amazon lockers means you can kinda keep purchases somewhat secret. Like um.. adult stuff 😏
Years ago I used to sign up for free samples of things (found on a freebees sub) using the name Freema Balczak, because then I'd know if one of them sold my info... but mostly for shits and giggles.
Fake name and email and virtual card, unless legally required to give my real info. Businesses get hacked all of the time and i dont trust them.
Also all of the grocery cards are all fake names too.
For things involving payments, the info should probably be real but I might use only a first name if I can get away with it. And if it's asking for an address for no good reason I'll give a fake address in the same city. No one's ever asked me for a name in a restaurant.
Can't use a false name on the payment options, so I don't even bother with the address.
Order food through an app, though, half of these things never let me enter a name and just use what is associated with the email I signed up with. So everything uses a nick name/alias and not my real name, since none of my email accounts use my real name for the real name field.
Yes you can use false names for billing info… zip code is often the only thing US processors check so if that’s right it’ll go through.
Martavius Garantus Hawthorne IV is my real name, officer.
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