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When you buy stuff online, do you use your real name, or a false name/nickname/pseudoname?

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  • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

    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.

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    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.

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      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 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.

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      • radix@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

        Martavius Garantus Hawthorne IV is my real name, officer.

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        Brumblebury Zoibbbble checking in!

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          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.

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          My name is Walter Hartwell Los Pollos Hermanos White, if you are watching this, I'm probably dead, murder by my brother in law, Hank Alberquerque DEA Schrader

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            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.

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            I do similar, but with an email alias instead. I sign up with [email protected] and it all just routes to my main inbox. This way, I know if an email comes in that I never asked for, I can see what company sold my information and stop using them.

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              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.

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              It depends entirely on the payment processor. Some will fail if the name and/or address doesn't match what's on file for the card.

              I've spent a long phone call at a day job with a payment failing until the person remembered that their card was held by their birth name rather than their married name, and the payment went through once that was corrected.

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                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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                If it's being judged by people when you order food that you're worried about, how does using a different name affect that at all? You're still there ordering the same food.

                The main thing is, nobody who sells or delivers food for a living actually gives a serious shit what you order. Just tip well.

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                  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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                  Don't do that. It can be a huge headache if any problems come up and you need to prove you are, well, you.

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                  • Z [email protected]

                    I do similar, but with an email alias instead. I sign up with [email protected] and it all just routes to my main inbox. This way, I know if an email comes in that I never asked for, I can see what company sold my information and stop using them.

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                    You can also do this with lots of email accounts like Gmail - [email protected] goes to [email protected] but lets you easily filter and see who sells/leaked/got hacked your data.

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                      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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                      What kind of restaurant asks for your name? In the restaurants I worked the only times I needed a name was to put on a reservation and it was just for reference, you could make a reservation to the color blue, as long there weren't two groups with the same name we didn't care.

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                      • F [email protected]

                        You can also do this with lots of email accounts like Gmail - [email protected] goes to [email protected] but lets you easily filter and see who sells/leaked/got hacked your data.

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                        I used to do that as well, but most spamers have caught on and strip that out first.

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