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"They are in most of Europe though." Weirdly, Orange will sell anyone a "Orange Holiday Europe" SIM card that has no identity attached to it whatsoever. I am
by rsync 4y ago
"They are in most of Europe though."
Weirdly, Orange will sell anyone a "Orange Holiday Europe" SIM card that has no identity attached to it whatsoever.
I am using it now - purchased from Amazon for $40 - and it is an insta-connect SIM with talk/text/data that auto provisions a number and brings up service immediately upon insertion.
And yes, my Amazon account is indeed pseudonymous and has no connection to my name or physical address. That has always been the case.
- markdown 4y ago> And yes, my Amazon account is indeed pseudonymous and has no connection to my name or physical address. That has always been the case. How did you manage that? Credit cards, shipping addresses?
- rsync 4y agoWe have a private postal suite (which is just a mailbox) that we ship to - in a corporate name. Visa and MasterCard don’t verify cardholder name - you can enter any name you want when checking out with a credit card. Our current “bullshit online retailer” nym is a character from Dune.
- jhugo 4y ago"no connection to your name" is not really accurate if you are using a credit card issued in your own name, even if you don't reveal that name directly to Amazon.
- markdown 4y agoThey're anonymous to the vendor, but of course not to the credit card company, issuing bank, or their own government.
- jhugo 4y agoI wouldn't be surprised if cardholder name was shared by the credit card network with a vendor the size of Amazon. Does anything forbid it?
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