Prevent showing my name?
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Greetings.
I'm an artist looking to start taking commissions and using paypal as my means of receiving payment, but I do not want my given birth-name shown whenever someone types in my email address to send funds.
How might I go about making it either not display my name, or showing something else instead? I would like to retain a certain amount of anonymity on the net, you see.
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Welcome to the boards!
As a fellow artist, I can understand wanting to do your works under a different name. It has it's uses, after all.
That being said, your PayPal account absolutely must be registered under the correct name for you. Don't register under a business name, pen name or alias.
However, you can then, once you register your real name, upgrade to a Business account. This allows you to send and receive payments under the Business Name you register - which could be your artist name!
Adrian
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