False Identity Generator

UPDATE: Here are the lat­est updates (Includ­ing Cana­dian and Aus­tralian addresses!)
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://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

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…
  • Sweep­stakes site that is used to gather names/emails to sell. Use the fake names/addresses as the peo­ple who “win” your sweepstakes.
  • Umm. Thats it really. Not sure what else you’d use it for. Guess there are a lot of ille­git­i­mate uses… Oh well…

UPDATES:

  • Added street address gen­er­a­tion. Doesn’t always val­i­date because it is just using com­mon street names, but bet­ter than noth­ing. Val­i­da­tion com­ing soon!
  • Added female/male selection.
  • Added saved identities.
  • Added mid­dle ini­tial. Weighted mid­dle ini­tial com­ing soon!
  • Added weighted first and last names. This means that “Smith” should appear MUCH MUCH MUCH more often than some­thing like “Abdul­mu­niem”. Hope­fully this gives names that are more usable.
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42 Comments

  1. seriously tho
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 12:53 am | Permalink

    Are you seri­ous? Thanks!

  2. Posted June 19, 2006 at 12:56 am | Permalink

    Yeah man, why hasn’t this already been done? ARE WE READY?

  3. Posted June 19, 2006 at 1:23 am | Permalink

    Great for the whole family!

  4. Posted June 19, 2006 at 1:26 am | Permalink

    I am always in need of a new name. Thanks to the fake name gen­er­a­tor I am never stumped when some asks my for my per­sonal info. I am look­ing for­ward to the fake S.S. gen­er­a­tor.
    Your Cap­tain
    argo76.com

  5. Elijahblue
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 1:44 am | Permalink

    MOST cool dude. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you fill out the fea­tures here. Use­ful as hell for messin with peo­ple, social engi­neer­ing and cre­at­ing names for those damned ‘free iPod’ web­sites. heh

  6. Posted June 19, 2006 at 3:40 am | Permalink

    Yeah I’ve some­times reg­is­tered on sites that don’t allow you to select my coun­try (UK) for what­ever rea­son. The option is not there so I’ve been forced to use United States and try to guess a valid zip code (12345 wasnt working).

    This should come in handy for next time.

  7. Ari
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 4:14 am | Permalink

    12345 doesn’t work, but I’ve found that 15243 does (its in Penn­syl­va­nia)
    If a zip code isn’t enough, I use Bill Gates address, or GWB’s, and if that doesn’t work, I grab a ran­dom address off of zabasearch.
    I have to won­der how many addresses on zabasearch are real tho, because accord­ing to zabasearch there are a dozen guys named Hay­wood Jablowme.

  8. Posted June 19, 2006 at 4:23 am | Permalink

    Have you thought about mak­ing this gen­er­ate Inter­na­tional ID’s?

  9. Posted June 19, 2006 at 5:18 am | Permalink

    @LOCKDOWN: Yeah, I thought about it. I could eas­ily do it for other US ter­ri­to­ries (like Puerto Rico) and for Canada, but other than that I don’t have access to any city/postal code data­base. Heck, I don’t even know how their phone num­bers work. I’m assum­ing there is some­thing equiv­a­lent to an area code every­where, but thats just guessing.

    But if you have access to any kind of data­base that has city/state/postal code infor­ma­tion that can be ripped into a SQL/CSV/whatever dump, then I’d be happy to make inter­na­tional versions.

  10. Posted June 19, 2006 at 7:02 am | Permalink

    Cool! I hope you don’t mind that I posted this at http://www.adelaider.com/?thread=7192 :D

  11. Posted June 19, 2006 at 7:20 am | Permalink

    Next step : Ask for the eth­nic­ity, sex and gen­er­ate names accord­ingly.
    Cool.

  12. 1adam12
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 8:07 am | Permalink

    Can you use the USPS to gen­er­ate ran­dom addresses?

  13. George W. Bush
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 8:07 am | Permalink

    I never liked my last name…

  14. GreatStuff
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 9:08 am | Permalink

    Great way to pol­lute the mail­ing lists of junk mail mar­keters. Make them spend extra on postage, increase USPS rev­enues (reduce our taxes), and reduce junk mail over­all. If it becomes unprof­itable for them to send junk mail, they\‘ll stop doing it.

    Pub­lish the source dude.

  15. Luther Teager
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 9:24 am | Permalink

    Okla­homa has a 580 area code, but it’s not in Okla­homa City.

    REPLY: 580 has 600 pre­fixes, sev­eral of which can be con­sid­ered Okla­homa City. These are prob­a­bly areas that are actu­ally located in the county.

  16. tom
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 9:33 am | Permalink

    No chance of hav­ing a url for each name? You could use a seed num­ber which would gen­er­ate the name, etc.?

  17. Jack
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 10:59 am | Permalink

    this is kinda fun. you should have the page gen­er­ate a link to a google maps page as well, so you can see if the address is valid.

    REPLY: I was actu­ally think­ing about doing that. I’m try­ing to find a way to val­i­date it against the post office and just regen­er­ate the address if it isn’t valid.

  18. Marshall
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 11:37 am | Permalink

    When peo­ple ask for an address, I always use:
    1060 West Addi­sionChicago, IL 60613

  19. codeninja
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 11:39 am | Permalink

    Actu­ally, I need this, do you think I could get the code for this or maybe an XML API of the name and data???

    We cre­ate web­sites for com­pa­nies, and this would be great to use to gen­er­ate and auto pop­u­late our data­bases for testing…

    how about just a CSV dump of a few thou­sand names???

    please, let me know.

  20. Mothy
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 11:56 am | Permalink

    Not that it mat­ters, but 12345 is the zip code for Gen­eral Elec­tric Co. in Sch­enec­tady, NY. When Thomas Edi­son was cre­at­ing the zip codes for the US, he gave his com­pany that number.

  21. Posted June 19, 2006 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

    So what would you use this for? Could be a good way to fight back against junk mail.

  22. Jack
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Would be handy to have it hooked up to Google Maps as well.

  23. Jack
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    Btw, I totally sec­ond Codeninja’s request for an API or some­thing for this, heck even a bunch of 10,000 line csv files for pop­u­lat­ing db’s for appli­ca­tion test­ing pur­poses, that would totally rock.

  24. George
    Posted June 19, 2006 at 3:06 pm | Permalink

    Only thing this is miss­ing is the abil­ity to pick what nation­al­ity you want the name in.

  25. Posted June 19, 2006 at 5:52 pm | Permalink

    Great Ser­vice!!! I’m going to use this for all those phis­ing scams. Let the sux­ors track THAT back!

  26. None
    Posted June 20, 2006 at 5:59 pm | Permalink

    How come you don’t then attach the fake name to a dis­posi­ble email address… so if it gen­er­ates “John Smith” then it would gen­er­ate “John.Smith@pookmail.com” or any other selec­table dis­pos­able email and could also pop­u­late that into the form(s) as well. Really easy and quick fea­ture to add.

  27. GWoods
    Posted June 20, 2006 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

    When you click “here” in “Like your name? You can always view this spe­cific name and address here” it changes the credit card number/expriation date.

    Reply: Yeah. I should prob­a­bly update the saved iden­ti­ties table, but haven’t got­ten around to it. Prob­a­bly gonna wait a week or two until I get all the fea­tures nailed down that I want, in the for­mat that I want, and then I’ll flush the saved iden­ti­ties table and start from scratch. Or something.

  28. GWoods
    Posted June 22, 2006 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    fax num­ber?

  29. Posted June 26, 2006 at 7:38 am | Permalink

    Great addi­tion, we’d love to offer this directly to our mem­bers on our site! Any wid­get plans?

    Reply: I have a basic API avail­able that is easy to use if you know basic PHP. I will be updat­ing it soon to reflect the new coun­try and email options. I’ve never made a wid­get before, and wouldn’t really know where to start… I’ll do a search on Google though and see what I can come up with…

  30. Cd0MaN
    Posted July 6, 2006 at 12:42 pm | Permalink

    Very cool. Thank you.

  31. Posted August 13, 2006 at 11:37 am | Permalink

    Com­pletely awesome!

    I’m wait­ing for Abu Mahas­apeta­lan from Kwiki­mart to turn up :)

  32. Posted September 1, 2006 at 2:34 pm | Permalink

    As far as address val­i­da­tion, you could prob­a­bly pass the address to local.google.com ;)

    It should pick up an “invalid” address.

  33. really real name!!
    Posted November 3, 2006 at 12:31 pm | Permalink

    ummm, where exactly is the False Iden­tity Gen­er­a­tor? There doesn’t seem to be any down­load link to it or link to a page where it is at or any­thing. This page just talks about it, but doesn’t actu­ally have the gen­er­a­tor any­where. Is the fake iden­tity gen­er­a­tor fake too? lol

    Edit: It’s at http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

  34. Ignatius
    Posted January 7, 2007 at 3:12 am | Permalink

    Can prove to be a great tool to those, who are into gen­er­at­ing fake email ids.

  35. Posted April 12, 2007 at 6:25 pm | Permalink

    Tank you — great!! Do you gen­er­ate Inter­na­tional ID’s?

  36. Thomas
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 7:31 am | Permalink

    You are my hero. Now I can do stuff like CashCrate with­out wor­ry­ing about junk shit com­ing in my mail­box. The address validilty is really the only thing I have a prob­lem with.

  37. Stephen Dubuque
    Posted September 21, 2007 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    I just found this site on “ran­dom site news.“
    This is going to be very help­fil for wesites that require infor­ma­tion.
    If I may add a help­ful com­ment users can also use a ran­dom pass­word gen­er­a­tor also.That way you have a phony pass­word also.
    My only ques­tion is the pos­si­bil­ity of iden­tity theft.
    If these are real social sse­cu­rity num­bers, visa num­bers etc. are real.
    Don’t het me wrong I will use the­ses names and adresses myself.
    But only for places where I have to sign up for something.

  38. Fake Namer
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    Great to see tools that help thieves

  39. Positron
    Posted December 27, 2007 at 5:34 pm | Permalink

    You must be jok­ing! This is vir­tu­ally worthless!

  40. don
    Posted April 6, 2008 at 5:28 pm | Permalink

    hi i need a need iden­tity i gam­ble on the net but those book­ies don’t like win­ners so after a while they either close your account or limit it to say $10 per bet,useless, so i need to open another account with name / bank account /email / credit card etc etc as they require photo id before any with­drawals are made, what to do ?(i like that guy who uses bill gates address ‚great, what is it?) don

  41. Posted November 27, 2008 at 9:34 am | Permalink

    Hello,

    I like your approach, BUT, will not the clever peo­ple STILL iden­tify my com­puter by its properties?

    It seems some sites do this so that when I use two dif­fer­ent email ads and user­names, for say a quote for some job, and retrieve the quotes, BOTH turn up under the first used username.

    That’s what I expe­ri­enced recently.

    Does your pro­gram over­come this?

    Thanks in advance — Ad

  42. Posted December 10, 2008 at 4:59 am | Permalink

    This web­site uses e-mails of the same provider. If the sur­vey sys­tem catches onto them then it would be use­less later.

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