[ianferrel]

It's trivially easy to get a credit card under any name you want. Most credit cards will generously offer to give you more cards with your family members names on them. Just make up a name and you get an additional card with that name.

The bill still comes to you, but that's on the credit card company's end.

[philwelch]

Here's a story about someone doing exactly that, not to buy airline tickets, but to wreak other havoc with "Michael Jackson"'s credit card: http://www.zug.com/pranks/mj/

[apaprocki]

I've recently ordered two additional family member credit cards (two different card processors / companies) and both of them required a SSN# for the additional member. Can anyone claim first-hand knowledge of their credit card company not requiring a SSN# for an additional cardholder?

[X-Istence]

I've had a Bank of America Visa Credit Card where I added a second person and the name was wrong (I had given the correct information over the phone), no SSN necessary. I have a Capital One card and no SSN was required when I got a secondary card made with my full real name on it.

[GuiA]

I'm in the US with a visa. When I opened my bank account (Capital One), I told them I didn't have a SSN yet and they opened it anyway.

The clerk told me I would have to give them my SSN when I got it, which I never did (half because I forget and half because the less information I give about myself, the better off I am)- that was about 2 years ago.

[ianferrel]

I have a Chase Visa card with a Southwest Airlines tie-in for a fictional person (they offered an extra 5k airline miles at signup if I got an additional card for a "family member"). No SSN was requested.