Revealing SENDER name to PAYEE

californialove1
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Hi, I have a personal PayPal account and need to pay a business for a service via PayPal.  I am making this purchase confidentially and do not want the business to see my name or any other account information.  I added a second email address to my personal PayPal account (let's call it "private email") in hopes that I could somehow send money from this second address.  What I would like is for the vendor to only see that money was sent from "private email", and not from my FIRST LAST NAME or my personal email address that is also associated with this account. 

 

When I go to send money, the options are to (1) say who I want to send money to, (2) say how much I want to send, and (3) to elect to include a shipping address.  I do not see an option to select which email address should act as the sender...

 

Is it possible to prevent my personal information from being shared with this vendor?  Is there another way this forum can recommend for me to send money via Paypal without exposing my name?  All of my credit/debit cards have my name as well so even if I tried to do the transaction without logging into my Paypal account I'd think my name would be exposed.

 

Thanks in advance!

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kernowlass
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@californialove1

 

Your primary email address is the one that is used.

You can't hide your name unless you are a registered business and use a business name.


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