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In this chapter, I will explain various ways to protect your privacy while
maintaining the convenience of making non-cash purchases online and in person. Before outlining these techniques, I feel obligated to examine how convenience is
inversely proportional to privacy and security. The more convenient something is the more personal privacy and control of your identity you are probably sacrificing.
Credit and debit cards are one such convenience. With cash you have to make time to visit an ATM, carry bills, and manage change. All of these inconvenience factors are compounded if you make multiple small purchases throughout the
month.
Despite its inconveniences, making these multiple small purchases routinely is precisely the reason you should use cash when available. Though it is certainly
more convenient to swipe a credit card for purchases than it is to use cash, it also creates a tangible, searchable record of each transaction. Your purchases record a wealth of data about you including your location and movement, interests, hobbies, and a plethora of other information. Some will say this data is protected
and only visible to those with proper authority. I counter that argument with whatever data breach is in the headlines while you read this chapter. Further, history has proven that those with proper authority often abuse their power.
Ideally, you want your bank statements to always look something like this
This type of bank statement, does not raise any kind of suspicion, and will keep you in a low-profile, which is what we want. If you are a cyber-criminal, you do not want any kind of attention to yourself, especially from the IRS or police.
I attempt to use cash as much as possible but realize that I will never be able to fully eliminate credit cards from my life. Air travel, rental cars, and hotels all require credit cards. I still find myself in locations where I don’t want to pay
exorbitant ATM fees and end up using a credit card. But I use it a lot less, which is what I am truly advocating. Use more cash and less plastic. This reduces the
amount of information about yourself that you give over to your bank, your lenders, or anyone curious enough to swipe a statement out of your mailbox.
There are significant and compelling reasons to keep your purchase history anonymous. Especially for us criminals. Your purchases will reveal almost
everything about you. The sporting goods you buy (or don’t buy) probably say a lot about your level of physical activity and fitness. The books you read reveal a lot about your personality including your religious beliefs, your political leanings, your sexuality, and the things you are passionate about. The foods you buy, the restaurants at which you eat, the frequency with which you eat at them, and the alcohol and tobacco products you consume reveal a LOT about your life. This may one day very soon be used against in one way or another.
Using cash isn’t bulletproof, and it won’t make you totally anonymous. But it will lower your digital signature, offer you a lot more anonymity, and make an attacker’s job a bit harder. Every little bit helps. For those situations that do not allow cash purchases, I have some ideas that will decrease the invasive tracking of your buying habits.
you are already using Amazon and have an account created, I recommend that you stop using that account and create a new one. The details that you provide are extremely important. Before discussing the appropriate methods, please consider an actual scenario.
A friend had recently moved to a new rental house to escape a dangerous situation. He had nothing associated with his real name at the address. The utilities were still in the name of the landlord. He used a PO Box in a different city for his personal mail. He was doing everything right. He created a new Amazon account and provided the name of his landlord and his home address for shipping purposes. This way, his packages would arrive in the name of the property owner and she would stay invisible. He made sure that her name was not visible in any part of the order.
When prompted for payment, he used his real credit card in his name. He verified one last time that his name was not present anywhere within the actual order or shipping information. His item, a pair of hiking shoes, arrived in the name of the landlord. His real name was not referenced anywhere on the package. Within 30 days, He received a piece of mail that made his stomach drop. It was a. catalog of hiking equipment addressed to his real name at his address. The company had accepted the order through Amazon and was given his name as attached to the credit card. Therefore, the company added his to its catalog delivery list.
All of his hard work was ruined from this one mistake. The lesson here is that you can never tie your real name to your address if you do not want that association to be public.
The following steps will mask your real identity from your Amazon purchases. This echnique can also apply to other online retailers. Create a new account with the
following information.
o Name: Use the name that you want your packages shipped to. This could be the former resident or landlord at your address, or a complete alias.
o Email Address: You must provide an email address for your new Amazon accounts. I recommend you use Protonmail for this. Do not use your name.
o Credit Card: I personally recommend you head to
Ironvest or Privacy.com and create a new account with them. They allow you to create masked cards and masked cell phones with your real credit card. Supply Amazon with the masked card and provide an alias name that you want to use for deliveries. If you don’t want to get a Blur account,
you can simply buy a crypto debit card, and attach that to your account. But make sure the crypto in the debit card are extra clean.
o Address: This could be your home address if you do not have a better place for deliveries. You can alter this information once the account has been verified. I personally recommend you get a PO box in a different city, and use
that as your delivery address. Because the name on the shipment is not a real name, I do not see this as a privacy concern (for your house, do not use a alias for a PO Box you opened with your real ID). I believe it actually helps establish that someone else lives at your residence, and provides great
disinformation. You should scrutinize any option that you choose and make sure that it is appropriate for your scenario.
This method should protect you from any association between your name, your purchases, and your home. You could likely use this new Amazon account for all of your purchases and have no problems. However, I encourage you to take things a step further and apply a bit more paranoia to your plan. I create a new Amazon account after each Blur card has been depleted. If I add a $200 Blur masked card
to my account, and then use those funds over a period of five orders, I do not add a new masked card to my Amazon account. Instead, I close the account and create
a new one. Same thing with BTC debit cards and Amazon gift cards. I create a new account after each purchase. This way, Amazon does not have a single record of all
transactions. It will add disinformation to your address and will confuse your delivery person. The only drawback to this is if you subscribe to their prime membership You may want to create an account to be used with those benefits.
These can be purchased in amounts up to $2,000.00, require no additional activation fee as prepaid credit cards do, and some retailers require that you pay cash for them. Using these cards is incredibly simple. Create a new Amazon aaccount, navigate to your payment settings, and add the gift card. When you have used up your gift card balance, open a new Amazon account providing your real shipping address and a false name. Now order items from Amazon as you normally would. This creates disinformation rapidly. Within 30 days of making a purchase on an alias account, you might begin receiving junk mail at your home address in that name.
Taken to the extreme, you could use this technique to make a new Amazon account, complete with a new name at your shipping address, for every purchase you make
No discussion of anonymous purchases would be complete without mentioning the cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). Monero is currently the most
anonymous cryptocurrency in existence.
The unfortunate disadvantage of Monero is that almost most retailers don't accept it as a form of payment. However, you can easily purchase BTC with Monero. There are services on Kycnot.me. In fact, I strongly recommend you do this before purchasing an Amazon gift card, to ensure your maximum anonymity.
Here are some listed services
Bitpay
Redotpay ext.
Most of the time it's not accepted by some retailers and more over you can't redraw money from it it's only used online.
It basically comes with only the registered Name, Card Details, Expiration date, Name and CVV and sometimes zip code depending on your location.
There are a lot of people and website that offer this service
You can buy with monero or BTC on
Trocador
CONCLUSION :
Even though you can't be 100% anonymous, hope this helps you to purchase items safely ONLINE.
GOOD LUCK!
maintaining the convenience of making non-cash purchases online and in person. Before outlining these techniques, I feel obligated to examine how convenience is
inversely proportional to privacy and security. The more convenient something is the more personal privacy and control of your identity you are probably sacrificing.
Credit and debit cards are one such convenience. With cash you have to make time to visit an ATM, carry bills, and manage change. All of these inconvenience factors are compounded if you make multiple small purchases throughout the
month.
Despite its inconveniences, making these multiple small purchases routinely is precisely the reason you should use cash when available. Though it is certainly
more convenient to swipe a credit card for purchases than it is to use cash, it also creates a tangible, searchable record of each transaction. Your purchases record a wealth of data about you including your location and movement, interests, hobbies, and a plethora of other information. Some will say this data is protected
and only visible to those with proper authority. I counter that argument with whatever data breach is in the headlines while you read this chapter. Further, history has proven that those with proper authority often abuse their power.
Ideally, you want your bank statements to always look something like this
This type of bank statement, does not raise any kind of suspicion, and will keep you in a low-profile, which is what we want. If you are a cyber-criminal, you do not want any kind of attention to yourself, especially from the IRS or police.
I attempt to use cash as much as possible but realize that I will never be able to fully eliminate credit cards from my life. Air travel, rental cars, and hotels all require credit cards. I still find myself in locations where I don’t want to pay
exorbitant ATM fees and end up using a credit card. But I use it a lot less, which is what I am truly advocating. Use more cash and less plastic. This reduces the
amount of information about yourself that you give over to your bank, your lenders, or anyone curious enough to swipe a statement out of your mailbox.
There are significant and compelling reasons to keep your purchase history anonymous. Especially for us criminals. Your purchases will reveal almost
everything about you. The sporting goods you buy (or don’t buy) probably say a lot about your level of physical activity and fitness. The books you read reveal a lot about your personality including your religious beliefs, your political leanings, your sexuality, and the things you are passionate about. The foods you buy, the restaurants at which you eat, the frequency with which you eat at them, and the alcohol and tobacco products you consume reveal a LOT about your life. This may one day very soon be used against in one way or another.
Using cash isn’t bulletproof, and it won’t make you totally anonymous. But it will lower your digital signature, offer you a lot more anonymity, and make an attacker’s job a bit harder. Every little bit helps. For those situations that do not allow cash purchases, I have some ideas that will decrease the invasive tracking of your buying habits.
AMAZON
I begin with Amazon because it is one of the largest online retailers. I place orders through Amazon weekly and never jeopardize my privacy during the process. If you are already using Amazon and have an account created, I recommend that you stop using that account and create a new one. The details that you provide are extremely important. Before discussing the appropriate methods, please consider an actual scenario.
A friend had recently moved to a new rental house to escape a dangerous situation. He had nothing associated with his real name at the address. The utilities were still in the name of the landlord. He used a PO Box in a different city for his personal mail. He was doing everything right. He created a new Amazon account and provided the name of his landlord and his home address for shipping purposes. This way, his packages would arrive in the name of the property owner and she would stay invisible. He made sure that her name was not visible in any part of the order.
When prompted for payment, he used his real credit card in his name. He verified one last time that his name was not present anywhere within the actual order or shipping information. His item, a pair of hiking shoes, arrived in the name of the landlord. His real name was not referenced anywhere on the package. Within 30 days, He received a piece of mail that made his stomach drop. It was a. catalog of hiking equipment addressed to his real name at his address. The company had accepted the order through Amazon and was given his name as attached to the credit card. Therefore, the company added his to its catalog delivery list.
All of his hard work was ruined from this one mistake. The lesson here is that you can never tie your real name to your address if you do not want that association to be public.
The following steps will mask your real identity from your Amazon purchases. This echnique can also apply to other online retailers. Create a new account with the
following information.
o Name: Use the name that you want your packages shipped to. This could be the former resident or landlord at your address, or a complete alias.
o Email Address: You must provide an email address for your new Amazon accounts. I recommend you use Protonmail for this. Do not use your name.
o Credit Card: I personally recommend you head to
Ironvest or Privacy.com and create a new account with them. They allow you to create masked cards and masked cell phones with your real credit card. Supply Amazon with the masked card and provide an alias name that you want to use for deliveries. If you don’t want to get a Blur account,
you can simply buy a crypto debit card, and attach that to your account. But make sure the crypto in the debit card are extra clean.
o Address: This could be your home address if you do not have a better place for deliveries. You can alter this information once the account has been verified. I personally recommend you get a PO box in a different city, and use
that as your delivery address. Because the name on the shipment is not a real name, I do not see this as a privacy concern (for your house, do not use a alias for a PO Box you opened with your real ID). I believe it actually helps establish that someone else lives at your residence, and provides great
disinformation. You should scrutinize any option that you choose and make sure that it is appropriate for your scenario.
This method should protect you from any association between your name, your purchases, and your home. You could likely use this new Amazon account for all of your purchases and have no problems. However, I encourage you to take things a step further and apply a bit more paranoia to your plan. I create a new Amazon account after each Blur card has been depleted. If I add a $200 Blur masked card
to my account, and then use those funds over a period of five orders, I do not add a new masked card to my Amazon account. Instead, I close the account and create
a new one. Same thing with BTC debit cards and Amazon gift cards. I create a new account after each purchase. This way, Amazon does not have a single record of all
transactions. It will add disinformation to your address and will confuse your delivery person. The only drawback to this is if you subscribe to their prime membership You may want to create an account to be used with those benefits.
AMAZON GIFT CARDS
An alternative strategy for purchasing anonymously on Amazon is to use their gift cards. These are available for sale at many retailers including drug stores such as CVS and Walgreens, grocery store, and even hardware stores such as Home Depot and Lowes. They can also be purchased directly with Bitcoin through a website called Bitrefill Many people used to use eGifter and Gyft , however, they no longer support Amazon gift cards.These can be purchased in amounts up to $2,000.00, require no additional activation fee as prepaid credit cards do, and some retailers require that you pay cash for them. Using these cards is incredibly simple. Create a new Amazon aaccount, navigate to your payment settings, and add the gift card. When you have used up your gift card balance, open a new Amazon account providing your real shipping address and a false name. Now order items from Amazon as you normally would. This creates disinformation rapidly. Within 30 days of making a purchase on an alias account, you might begin receiving junk mail at your home address in that name.
Taken to the extreme, you could use this technique to make a new Amazon account, complete with a new name at your shipping address, for every purchase you make
MONERO
No discussion of anonymous purchases would be complete without mentioning the cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). Monero is currently the most
anonymous cryptocurrency in existence.
The unfortunate disadvantage of Monero is that almost most retailers don't accept it as a form of payment. However, you can easily purchase BTC with Monero. There are services on Kycnot.me. In fact, I strongly recommend you do this before purchasing an Amazon gift card, to ensure your maximum anonymity.
CRYPTO ANONYMOUS DEBIT
CARDS
There are a services that allows you to get debit cards with crypto for CARDS
Here are some listed services
Bitpay
Redotpay ext.
VIRTUAL CREDIT/DEBIT CARD
Virtual Credit Card or simply VCC are card which are use to pay for subscriptions or to make purchases online anonymously or privately without your physical credit card.Most of the time it's not accepted by some retailers and more over you can't redraw money from it it's only used online.
It basically comes with only the registered Name, Card Details, Expiration date, Name and CVV and sometimes zip code depending on your location.
There are a lot of people and website that offer this service
You can buy with monero or BTC on
Trocador
CONCLUSION :
Even though you can't be 100% anonymous, hope this helps you to purchase items safely ONLINE.
GOOD LUCK!
