Thread: Receiving Donations Anonymously

I currently have a blog where the content is a bit risque - nothing immoral or illegal, but one where I wouldn't want the target of my jokes to find out my identity.

It's a pretty popular blog with a wide following and many regulars coming back every day. As it has been established for more than 2 years and has undoubtedly provided a source of entertainment to my readers, I am thinking of monetising it using some sort of donate button.

Ideally I'd like some third-party site to accept donations on my behalf, which I could then cash out to my PayPal account. By using an intermediary people wouldn't see my PayPal account details directly, thereby protecting my personal details.

Does anyone know of any reputable services like this? Something that will accept payments on my behalf, which I can then withdraw to PayPal?

Okay... another question as this one hasn't yielded a response: If you accept donations by Moneybookers can the person making the donation see any of your personal details? I realise they need to know your email address, but do they see anything else (like postal address) on the donate page?

Originally Posted by CountryBoy

I currently have a blog where the content is a bit risque - nothing immoral or illegal, but one where I wouldn't want the target of my jokes to find out my identity.

It's a pretty popular blog with a wide following and many regulars coming back every day. As it has been established for more than 2 years and has undoubtedly provided a source of entertainment to my readers, I am thinking of monetising it using some sort of donate button.

Ideally I'd like some third-party site to accept donations on my behalf, which I could then cash out to my PayPal account. By using an intermediary people wouldn't see my PayPal account details directly, thereby protecting my personal details.

Does anyone know of any reputable services like this? Something that will accept payments on my behalf, which I can then withdraw to PayPal?

well, with paypal you can add several emails in one paypal account.

just create a new valid anonymous email, as example: please-send-me-your-donation@email.com, add this email to your paypal account then paypal will send confirmation link to your new email, open it and click the link. that's it, your new email become verified on your paypal account.

after that, create donation button related to this email, and put its script to your site.

you don't need any third-party to conceal your identity.