Well get them while their hot… there are only a few billion possibilities, and he’s already used a couple hundred thousand… The guy has written to provide an address and phone number as well as the name. Just for those moments you really don’t want to give them your information.
zulugrid » False Identity Generator
My fake name generator is somewhat up and running. Very very rough draft. But it works!
It generates:
- First and last name
- Valid city, state, and zip code
- Telephone number with area code/prefix that match the generated city
- Mother’s maiden name
- Birthday
Working on adding in valid full addresses, but that is a lot tougher. There aren’t really any random address generators out there. Well, there are, but they don’t give you a random VALID address, which is important if the website you are using it at validates it using the USPS system.
Check it out: http://dev.allredtech.com/fakename/
Some possible uses:
- Signing up for paid offers (like affiliate programs that pay for leads) or those annoying free iPod pyramid schemes. If it doesn’t require you to actually get something shipped to you, then a real looking fake name/address from another state can be real useful.
- Pseudonym to use as your online identity to avoid companies from seeing your colorful past. If you use an “unused” name, then it will be very easy to search for everything related to yourself using Google.
- Load it (or a couple) into a form filler to quickly fill out junk mail forms. Very useful if they want you to refer 5 friends or whatever.
- Fake websites to promote your own website. Work at least the city/state into it somewhere and it looks like people from all over the country are raving about your
- insert something cool here*. Of course, thats a lot more work than I’d be willing to do. Maybe if I generate an XML API like someone suggested, it could be done automatically… Hmmm…
- Umm. Thats it really. Not sure what else you’d use it for. Maybe if you were like a secret agent on a budget or something, it could come in handy for making your false identities or something.
UPDATES:
- Added street address generation. Doesn’t always validate because it is just using common street names, but better than nothing.
- Added female/male selection.
- Added saved identities.
- Added middle initial.
Tags: Community, DIY, Interesting, Internet, Irony
