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many cards offer virtual card numbers, robinhood card offers name anonymization.

been a user for a couple years now and no complaints



A reminder:

Neither visa nor MasterCard networks have the ability to verify cardholder name.

Everyone behaves as if they do, but your name cannot be verified.

Which is to say, all of these cards have name anonymization, not just robinhood.


yeah I found it out a while back and since then I've been using randomly generated names during checkout every time - no issues ever


I was unaware of that, is address also unverifiable?


Yes, address is verifiable.


According to wikipedia, AVS only verifies the numeric portion of an address.

But I haven't tried this, so ymmv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_verification_service#:...

Vendors like Stripe may do more than Visa/MC though.


robinhood is not available here in Switzerland unfortunately.




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