On using Amazon

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You should support your local stores but if you want to use amazon, do it this way:

  1. Use an email alias
  2. Use strong password
  3. Enable 2fa
  4. Smspool.net for verifying phone number
  5. Don’t use your legal name, use an alter ego
  6. Jig your address a little, the package should reach you, but the address should not be readable by machine, club words and numbers, use a central pincode not your pincode.
  7. Use your country’s capital as your default address if you are not living there, especially nice for digital goods / ebooks / keys etc
  8. Consider using alias payment cards like pst.net, fluz.app, don’t put your name on it, if you are not from USA, consider getting alias usa cards throigh new mexico LLC

Start a fresh amazon if your old one is burned.

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Can you expand on this more?

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The package should reach you, the last mile of your address, you can just club words and numbers together 1226BelmontAve, and then you can use adjacent pincode or a different pincode on whats on your legal/gov record

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I would recommend just not putting your real address. Put a random one. Deliver package to a post office or similar.You mean ZIP code right, not PIN ?

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What real purpose is this going to serve?

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Post office will have some record of you, feals like it provides no more advantage then just jigging your address

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You will be protected from a central database leak or infra attack

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I’m pretty sure all addresses are already in some database for one reason or another. Doing this does nothing because systems are also sophisticated enough to read the address correctly anyway.

I don’t believe or buy that doing this does anything of value.

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Manufactured spending /Credit card rewards community do this, it works against amazon.

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If you provide your adress, they can easily guess your true identity.
It doesn’t matter if you put it in another format, the protection will only be marginal with AI nowadays.

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Honestly just use the Amazon lockers:

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Not always practical when ordering larger items and select other products (electronics and whatnot). But yes, this is an option that should not be forgotten if you have the conveyance.

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Amazon Locker + Gift Cards (though it may not be as accessible for some)

I think at that point, either use a non-private Amazon account (that contains your credit card info, maybe real name or home address) or shop elsewhere.

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Depends where you live tbh, these aren’t always in every city and in convenient locations.

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If you have Amazon delivering directly to your home, even with a “jigged” address, you’ve lost the battle. Nothing gets delivered directly to my home with Amazon. It all either goes to a local Amazon locker for pickup, or in the case of larger items it gets delivered to a local private mailbox that receives packages. I then pick up those packages by hand rather than having them forwarded to my home address.

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You should explain further how any of this works against Amazon. What is a “jigged” address and how does that protect you from

Without additional info, I’m inclined to agree with @fria and @Encounter5729 on using Amazon lockers and PO boxes as proxies.

But post offices are not part of the assumed threat model, right? If you want to prevent Amazon from knowing your address, which seems to be the threat model this post is about, then PO boxes provide advantages analogous to email aliases and virtual cards.

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Almost forgot, added smspool.net for phone verification.

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https://support.bfmr.com/hc/en-us/articles/37646805311259-Will-my-BFMR-Insurance-claim-be-denied-if-I-jig-or-alter-the-ship-to-address

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Thanks

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Amazon doesn’t accept aliases.

I got a scare last year when I started using an alias for Amazon. After a couple of weeks, Amazon didn’t recognize my account after I tried to log in with my alias. Thankfully, I had preemptively not deleted my original email address from my Amazon account and was able to log in with that. I added an alias again, and deliberately did not remove my Gmail address from Amazon as a security measure.

Guess what?

I just tried to log in right now with my alias and Amazon didn’t recognize it.
If you use an alias with Amazon, do not remove your original Big Tech address, because you may lose your account.

Does Amazon require a phone number?
To my knowledge it doesn’t. I have 2FA enabled via authentication app.

My account has my real name but not my full legal name. That said, I’ve long considered creating an anonymous Amazon account, but part of me think it’s futile because:

  1. I often have parcels delivered to friends and family’s homes.

Sometimes, I send it to an Amazon locker and my friends pick it up at the locker for which they need to present ID. I could use fake names for my friends and family, but I would have to remind them of it. And if they are not home, and they try to pick up the parcel whoever has them won’t give it to them.

  1. If you don’t have a virtual credit card your name will still be revealed.