New ‘Masked’ Credit Cards Allow You To Use A Fake Name And Address

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There’s a new technique that can make paying online more convenient, more private and more secure. It’s called a masked credit card and it can let you make payments online without revealing such details as your address, credit card number, email address and your name.

“Our vision of the future is that a large amount of people whenever they are making a transaction have the choice of whether to make the transaction private or not,” Rob Shavell told Forbes. Shavell is the CEO and cofounder of a company called Abine. Abine is testing masked credit card services that it plans to sell to the public.

Abine is offering a service called MaskMe that creates a sort of false identity to cover your tracks online. To promote the service Abine is waiving the $5 MaskMe charge during the holiday season.

You can use Abine’s address and any name you want for your card.

MaskMe apparently works so well, Shavell told Forbes, that tens of thousands of people have signed up for the service. He said that many of his customers were those who have been victimized by hackers.

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Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/12/07/new-masked-credit-cards-allow-you-to-use-a-fake-name-and-address/