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Fake Name Generator

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Re: Fake Name Generator

#51

While this is very interesting, the profiles may need to be "tweaked" a bit to be realistic. For example, the first profile it generate for me was a: -Female -Fitness instructor -Weighing 205.9 lbs -Standing 5 feet 1 inch Individually, any of these things might be ok. Any three could even be possible. All four, however, just doesn't seem to work.

The occupations do seem the most likely to cause suspicion. Some of them are trades where you have to be licensed or registered to have that occupation, so a quick search would prove the person does not exist, or at least is lying about their job.

Then there's the automobile, which could also raise red flags. A Fiat Tempra driven in the USA would probably be suspicious to anyone who knows that Fiats probably weren't sold in the US in 1994, for example. And it might be weird for a clerk to be driving a 2010 Infinity...

Back in the BBS days there used to be programs written to auto-generate identities in bulk, for reasons i'm not aware of. They were designed to minimize scrutiny because there might be humans actually looking at the data you used, since there was less automation in terms of processing accounts back then.

Re: Fake Name Generator

#52
On first glance, the whole thing looked very shady to me, since the web pages it generates look like this:

BakingBrokers.com

but it seems they are all non-registered domains, so it is indeed not a scam (and Baking is not quite Banking).

Would be a funny trick, though. Get a lot of people to use your identity generator in order to produce some backlinks.

Re: Fake Name Generator

#56
post #6

Very useful resource! I'm curious though, where did you get your Hispanic names from? Seems like they come from a database of funny, weird and probably offensive names. No one is called like that in Spanish-speaking countries, and yes, I know the names are supposed to be fake, but just comparing the Hispanic with the American ones, you can tell there's a big difference. Whether or not is intentional, it could be even…

Curious what you find this useful for? Filling out online forms instead making stuff up off the top of your head?

Re: Fake Name Generator

#57
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/pontiac/firebird/used-... You can be the first to own one! Only a 1995 model though :-)

That's a Firebird, not a Sunbird. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C258400

Re: Fake Name Generator

#59
Suggestion: Have a 'profile basket' so I can recover the birth date the next time a service asks for security questions.

Actually, generating the "first boyfriend" and "my first car color" would be great too.

Actually, what about generating a facebook and linkedin profile for the fake names?

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