So, I was about to make an account at an online shopping platform and was considering putting a fake name. Is this too much paranoia, or is it okay?

  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    4 days ago

    Where I am, to receive a package from mail or a private shipping company, you indeed have to show your ID. However, I always order to the online store’s own office directly (usually without even creating the account - instead asking an employee), and I’ve never been asked this. Is it stricter where you are?

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      sorry, I don’t understand this part:

      However, I always order to the online store’s own office directly (usually without even creating the account - instead asking an employee),

      you mean ordering from a store’s website that also has a physical store nearby? and by asking an employee, you mean asking in person at the shop, right?

      if so, I think that would work here too. but most of my online purchases are from shops that don’t have a physical store, maybe at all anywhere, so I can’t apply this technique

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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        3 days ago

        Yeah, indeed. I choose where to shop based on whether the shop has a presence in my city (not just “nearby”). Agree it is not universal, I am in a big city.