That works great until the TLD decides you need to hop through extended verification and fork over an identity card and a recent (3 months) invoice showing the address you signed up with 12 years ago, freezing your domain such that you can't update the information to be your current address even if you wanted to share that with the world (because privacy doesn't exist and GDPR doesn't apply in French-run/France-headquartered AFNIC). There's no time to dispute it or go back and forth: the initial email already comes with the announcement that your domain will go dark if they haven't processed your response after 14 days. Oh yeah, and you need to submit this via plain text email. If you send a link to the pdf scan, so that you can remove it after they've viewed it, that gets rejected (but it will be downloaded by an overseas system, run in the USA, within seconds of sending it), they'll respond that it specifically needs to be an attachment so that it will linger in their inbox forever
If you use fake info in relation to WHOIS data, you also need to be prepared to forge an identity document (a pretty bad felony in most countries per my understanding)
That said, on most forms I enter fake info because they they have no legitimate use for it anyway and they also can't compare it against anything. Buying a game or event ticket needs my address? For what, linking my purchase to a profile they're building? Nah, fake address it is
If you use fake info in relation to WHOIS data, you also need to be prepared to forge an identity document (a pretty bad felony in most countries per my understanding)
That said, on most forms I enter fake info because they they have no legitimate use for it anyway and they also can't compare it against anything. Buying a game or event ticket needs my address? For what, linking my purchase to a profile they're building? Nah, fake address it is