When you buy stuff online, do you use your real name, or a false name/nickname/pseudoname?
When you buy stuff online, do you use your real name, or a false name/nickname/pseudoname?
I use my real name for packages in case I need support if there's a problem with the delivery, but like if I went to a restaurant, or order food delivery, I'd probably use a fake name so people don't be judging my fatass lol.
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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 😏