Is this a disaster waiting to happen if visa/mc one day flip the switch on name verification?
Beyond that, for the type of tracking and fingerprinting done today, how relevant is your name actually?
Beyond that, for the type of tracking and fingerprinting done today, how relevant is your name actually?
Doesn't even have to be that big of a policy change; if Facebook gets suspicious about you using a fake name or various other scenarios, they'll lock your account until you provide a scan of a passport or state ID.
Amazon account gets blocked? He gets a new one. If they block him because they check the PO box against blocked accounts, he gets a new PO box too. Sure it's a hassle because he probably uses it for other stuff too. But nothing really preventing him from doing the fake name+PO box thing for a small likelihood of this ever happening and he'd probably gladly just get a new on if it ever did and there was no other way to convince them.
Same with Apple. Apple id gets blocked? Get a new one. I somehow doubt he's bought (err, sorry, rented) thousands of dollars worth of digital content on either platform that would discourage this. Streaming is fine as you can stream the same stuff again on the new account.