I've had a look through the group archives and most of the relevant posts seem to be ads. Any suggestions as to how I might make an anonymous payment (electronic)? What about those pre-pay visa cards? Can they be used anonymously? PalPal wants everything but my shoe size...
Thx
S.
snipped-for-privacy@googlemail.com gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
If you've got the recipient's bank account details, you can just put something spurious into the reference field.
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You can still have PayPal attached to an email account. As long as law enforcement are not involved I doubt you will be revealed to the payee.
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BobC
My reasons being "if there is not much in the account there is not much to steal"
I've moved to a paypal pre-paid debit card for internet purchases but before that used
works ok,
Some of them are anonymous, but most aren't. Check the details, most of them you have to register, and they post the card out to you. The anonymous ones are severely restricted in what you can do with them.
And have to be because of money laundering regulations, and because there is no proof that you are over 18.
Thanks for the suggestions, there should be something there I can use.
S.
Just a thought - why do you have to be 18? These are pre-paid debit cards, no? My kids have debit cards and they?re not 18.
Remember that part of the requirements for using these is 100% authorisation. The card issue shouldn't be authorising certain types of
retailer/service provider without proof of age.
A quick follow up on this - are payments through google payments anonymous? I've just clicked on a link to make a payment through google and it asks for my card details but not my name. In which case, I'm happy to go ahead, if my name's not attached to the payment (although I'm a little surprised that I can make a credit card payment without supplying the cardholders name...?)
Simon.
why not make a small payment to an account of your own or a relative to see what info. gets sent
Can you actually make payments to individual's accounts on Google?
The only service I've ever come across is "Google Checkout", which allows you to pay for goods purchased from merchants who have joined the service.
If there really is such a thing as "Google Payments" how do you access it.?
Chris
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