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Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by meowface » Thu, Jan 23, 2014, 9:01 AM UTC

linuxlizard wrote: post #53

"Per company policy you have been denied access to the URL: http://fakenamegenerator.com/ Reason: Not allowed to browse Questionable category" Now I'm REALLY curious!

I imagine the block is in place because spammers and fraudsters might take advantage of it. Still kind of silly though.

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by Guillaume86 » Thu, Jan 23, 2014, 7:51 PM UTC

raphinou wrote: post #47

There's a problem with Belgium: it generates street names in flemish for cities in the french speaking part of the country. Makes it obvious the address is fake.

Noticed it too, and it looks city-street are unique combinations (one street by city).

Re: Fake Name Generator

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Post by jtheory » Sun, Jan 26, 2014, 12:06 AM UTC

kamjam wrote: post #152

jtheory wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, SSNs aren't linked to location in any usable way. Obviously your SSN will not change when you move cross-country (so they're not linked to current address), and I think they're only based on the mailing address entered when the card was applied for, which may not even be where you were born.

Geo-dependent, as in across the otherside of the globe maybe...

Nope; I moved out of the US 8 years ago and my SSN remains the same. My daughters both have US SSNs and they've never lived there; the younger one hasn't even visited the US once yet. If they do live there someday, they'll still have the same SSNs.