Short of giving them an old valid address im afraid that i wouldnt know how to help or what to suggest!

Helper_01:Interesting dilema, in todays soceity where a company wants your family history before they deal with with you i can see where you are coming from, if the issue is unsolicited contact, and junk mail, you may want to look into getting a P.O. Box as if you look at it technically, you would not be lying on the application form. Hope this helps!

Trouble is though, if I did get myself a P.O. Box, I doubt a credit card company would accept it as being my address when applying for the card. If they somehow did, and I started giving that address out to all these online retailers that want to supply me with something via download, then that P.O. Box address ends up being good and valid and capable of some hacker using it to gain credit on my behalf, or for it to start getting filled up with junk mail.

I know that if you order something online these days, a *LOT* of the order processes involve you filling in their form with full name and address, despite them not wanting to send you anything. You're also giving them your credit card number. It's then their responsibility to not accidentally or even deliberately pass this information on (to hackers, spammers, criminals). If the cases of hacking over the last few years haven't worried people, it should. If only the "address giving and card number giving" happened in a dialogue between me and the credit card company in private (like it does with PayPal) then things would be fine, as long as they didn't pass on your name/address to the retailer if it's an online purchase.

Maybe I do sound paranoid, maybe I am, but that's the way it is. I realise I'm not going to get an answer on here though.

Interesting dilema, in todays soceity where a company wants your family history before they deal with with you i can see where you are coming from, if the issue is unsolicited contact, and junk mail, you may want to look into getting a P.O. Box as if you look at it technically, you would not be lying on the application form. Hope this helps!

I don't think I'm being paranoid. Tell that to the millions of people who trusted Sony with their information.

What I want is for my credit card company to know all my details. I don't have a problem with that. It's the vendors from which I'm paying for a software download (which are often "little guys" selling their software on their little websites) that I don't feel the need to give my info to. I especially don't want to give my info to google. This is my primary reason for wanting this type of card. I want to buy apps on my android phone and I can't currently without telling google my life story. They don't need to know. They're not mailing me anything.

So really, I'll be perfectly happy with a completely standard credit card that allows me to authorize a purchase online without having to give my name/address when there's no product being mailed. If my google searches are indicative, there are tens of thousands of people looking for this same thing exactly.

You are being paranoid. Card companies will indeed require to be able to contact you with, for example, replacement cards, statements and other correspondence. When you purchase, it is important to verify the identity and obviously, if you are purchasing something mail order, it wont be much use to you if it gets sent to a fake address. If you don't trust someone that you are considering a transaction with with your address, you certainly shouldn't trust them with your money.

Google for mailing address, forwarding address, etc to see what some people use for dodgy dealings.

Is there any way of getting a prepaid credit card that either has no registered address, or lets you set a fake address? I don't mind if the card company themselves know my real address, I would just prefer that if I'm ordering something online (e.g. software via download) then I don't see why I need to provide my address to them. I would also like to use Google Checkout to buy apps on the Android market but they don't offer PayPal. If there's one company I don't trust with my real name/address/D.O.B etc, then it's Google. If Sony can get hacked, then Google certainly can.

So when it comes to making a purchase online with a prepaid card, I'd like to be able to specify a fake address and have the credit card authorisation go through because it acknowledges that address as being valid.

I understand why "true" "credit" cards would need such a confirmation as a real address, because of the potential for fraud. But if it's a prepaid/gift card, then it isn't even a "credit" card as such. It's nothing more than a glorified oyster card really. Lose one of them and you've lost the value stored on it. Same deal with a prepaid/gift card.

Currently, at my home address, I receive *no* junk mail at all. Nothing. I want to keep it that way.

EDIT: I suppose a card with the ability to have a second address would do the trick too. Then it can be a bog-standard card. When I order something that I want to have delivered, I give my real address during verification. When I'm ordering something that requires no delivery (like a software app on my phone) then I can give the fake/second address. I imagine with people having second homes, surely this is a fairly standard request.