Quote from: fractal on April 28, 2011, 06:08:18 AM

You don't even need a fake ID to set up a paypal or ebay account in a fictitious name. Just buy a visa gift card, register it to some random name and viable address, set up an account and make the purchase. Always better to send to someone not involved who knows the legit uses if you don't have a drop box set up, always better to be cautious. Doesn't even have to be their name, just an address that can accept it for you.

I recall looking into that Visa gift card thing a couple years ago, getting discouraged and giving up because I kept finding that all of them wanted a SSN when you went to register it online so that it could be used to purchase things online. How did you get around that one? There's a card called a Simon gift card that I was able to buy anonymously at a mall kiosk, which was cool but then when I went to see about registering it (anonymously), I found all this frickin Patriot Act stuff attached that required a social, defeating the anonymity attempt. Do you just simply use a fake SSN too? I assumed at the time that fake SSNs would immediately get flagged as not matching the name or whatever. If it's Patriot Act shit, then they "should" be able to easily cross-reference SSNs and names, you'd think!! You would have to explain to me how/why this is not the case, if it's not.

We need a whole big thread on financial anonymity techniques... or... maybe that wouldn't be such a great idea...

There are unscrupulous people that will sell you a persons credit info (name, dob, address, SSN, etc).  they are mostly aimed at people that steal credit cards, but they work equally well for getting a greendot/netspend card.  If you want more info feel free to PM me

I did some pretty serious searching last night on the subject of gift cards and which ones do/don't need SSNs given as part of registering them, and there is a TON of conflicting info out there. So much so that after over 1.5 hours of searching nothing was any clearer than when I started. Except maybe that most of them DO need SSNs. It did appear to me that ostensibly, the SSNs submitted with registering any of them are run though gov't databases. Whether this really happens is another question.

The "phenolic aldehyde" card in particular had hundreds of complaints from people saying it's a scam and that the cards don't work---but the complaints nearly all seemed to be coming from people who actually were recipients of the cards as gifts and had tried to just use them without registering them, so of course they wouldn't have worked at some places. People evidently are all too prone to run off and post rabid complaints before checking out the instructions for their gift.

As I said I already bought the nitrite from eYouknowwho, and 100g will be more than I'll ever need. Hopefully it's not a problem as has been opined here. I tried to look up my entire purchase history on there to see what it looked like, but haven't figured out yet if that's possible (it would only look back 60 days for some reason). In the last 60 days I bought the nitrite and a small heating mantle, hopefully that is nothing big... I won't be ordering anything else from there.

Never forget what I told you about reducing Nitric acid to Nitros acid using Sodium Bisulfate, that information could prove valuable somewhere along the line.

The SSNs are matched against credit bureaus and private data warehouses. What they're looking for is some record of the claimed person matching that SSN, and occasionally, residing at the claimed address.

I'm pretty sure eGay doesn't release personal information to third party sellers. I could be wrong.

I would make nitrite just as I would make hydroxylamine.

way to many cladenstine uses.
any info on that idea of yours sedit ?

I would make nitrite just as I would make hydroxylamine.

way to many cladenstine uses.

You know what, that is so wrong though if they (eB*y) allow people to sell things that have a hundred legit uses, make money themselves from that sale, but then turn around and report the sale to the cops and call it suspicious. That is just ALL wrong. If they think an item is so sketchy, then they should not allow it to be sold. It's basically entrapment of a sort.  If they don't allow restricted/watched things like methylamine or red phosphorus to be sold there, fine, but then whatever they DO allow to be sold should be free of any suspicion---or don't allow it.

And if their way instead is to let the cops comb through their records on fishing expeditions, without demanding warrants specifying exactly what they are looking for and why, then that is very wrong too.