I don't, but if I had no other choice and needed to sign up to such a site I'd consider making one (or trying a real one with sensitive info redacted and see if that passes), along with other anonymity precautions.
The law is IMO the least of your concerns here (you are not stealing or causing harm to anyone, so very little incentive for someone to look into it), the fallout when your real ID leaks like what happened here would be a much bigger concern especially for LGBT performers in certain regions.
Regarding credit cards, using a prepaid one or a service such a Privacy.com is enough so no fakery needed there.
Credit cards: prepaid can be detected and blocked, same as the privacy.com ones - especially when the credit card is being used to validate something. Look at any major fraud prevention software, these things are trivial.
In the real world, if you want to make money, you need to show and prove ID with matching banking details. Any inconsistencies and you don't get paid. This isn't something you can outsmart. People smarter than you and I have been thinking very long and hard about these points, much more so than the two minutes you took to think up your post. The idea is like those videos of 'primitive underground dwellings with a swimming hole on top'. Cute, creative, but terribly impractical and useless in any real world situation.
Yes that is correct. I am thankful I have other means of income meaning I don't need to model for a cam site.
> Creating a fake ID = super illegal.
Agreed. But if I'm at the desperate stage where I have no choice but to sign up to a cam site, I would prefer taking that risk than having such PII leak many years in the future and affect my career prospects (the article mentions some of the data being up to 20 years old - most of these people now have no doubt left the scene but their new life can now be screwed up by this data leaking). Neither is a good solution, but IMO the risks of the latter outweigh those of the former.
Regarding prepaid cards, yes I know they can be detected and blocked, but is there any incentive to do so? It makes sense for a performer to want to protect their privacy, so I don't see why the site would block these cards?
It's actually not always illegal to create or possess a fake ID. It depends on the state and what you do with it. Some states it's illegal always. In California though as an example here's the law:
> 470b. Every person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in his or her possession any driver’s license or identification card of the type enumerated in Section 470a with the intent that the driver’s license or identification card be used to facilitate the commission of any forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.
You have to have the intent to commit a forgery. This is defined elsewhere but means to use the id to commit fraud.
So you have a novelty id that says your name is Mickey Mouse and you are 100 years old. You show it to your friends. Or maybe you get one as a gag gift for a friend. Not illegal in California. Using a fake id to misrepresent your age for legal purposes such as buying alcohol, tobacco, firearms, voting, acting in porn? Very illegal.
The law is IMO the least of your concerns here (you are not stealing or causing harm to anyone, so very little incentive for someone to look into it), the fallout when your real ID leaks like what happened here would be a much bigger concern especially for LGBT performers in certain regions.
Regarding credit cards, using a prepaid one or a service such a Privacy.com is enough so no fakery needed there.