I'm pretty
sure you've seen this in several areas and villages all over London and probably
in almost every region of the United Kingdom.
The
billboard reads "LEGAL NAME FRAUD. THE TRUTH. IT'S ILLEGAL TO USE A LEGAL
NAME."
The
advertisement is seemingly ridiculous. I first thought it was all about
illegally using a legal name of someone who just passed. But it is indeed
puzzling to know what it meant when it said that.
On its
website, LegalNameFraud.com, you could see when your birth was registered.
However, it said the name is different from the person as it will always be
distinct.
Sounds creepy
and disturbing at the same time.
I
investigated the matter and landed on this BBC article written by Jon Kelly. He
found out it was written by a certain "Kate of Gaia" who may have
transcended from Freemen-on-the-Land, a movement that expired long ago. The
movement said it was not bound by law if they didn't choose to be.
When he
emailed this Kate of Gaia, it never responded about who funded the billboards.
Instead, it just said Google 'legal name fraud' and read the essays like others
did. She also said she was a real journalist compared to a BBC pair-rot.
Seven
complaints about the posters have come up from the Advertising Standards
Authority (ASA).
"Some
questioned whether it would lead law-abiding people into thinking they've
committed fraud or a crime by having a name," a spokesman said.
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