Paypal Experiment
If you have a Paypal account, Paypal will give out your personal info to over 600 other companies.
Every entry for every account in my Keepass database has all the real info, if any, I've given out to that site/company. I like to keep track of who has what on me. Paypal has my real name, real SSN, 2 maybe 3 previous real addresses, a phone number, an email, and a credit card. This is of course terrible for my privacy and security, but I've had this account since long before I realized the risks of giving out that info.
However, maybe I can use this to my advantage for disinformation. Yesterday I changed my email addess on my Paypal account. I will not give out that email address to any other site. I'm curious to see if/when that email address will appear in other databases. I've set a google alert for that email address, and I'll check on it through other sources periodically and report back.
What I'd like to have happen eventually is for a typical OSINT search for my real name to return dozens if not hundreds of different email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses. And vice versa: a search for my real address returning hundreds of different names, a search for any of my phone numbers returning hundreds of names and addresses, you get the idea. SSN disinformation would be nice too, but I need to tread lightly with that, as I'd prefer not to commit any federal crimes.
Last edited by krunic; 12-21-2018 at 01:01 PM.