Originally Posted by
mileena
I'm just curious: is there anything to prevent me from making up a name, buying a ticket using that assumed name, and then telling the airline at check-in that I have no ID or forgot my ID? the airline marks your boarding pass "SSSS". Then it seems all TSA does is ask why you have no ID, ask if you have any other identifying ID, and then does a secondary. But do they ever call the police to verify your information, and see if you are in the driver's license system...to make sure you are not flying under an alias?
The only way I can think of to fly (domestic USA) under an alias without doing something "wrong" (either a fake ID or a fake BP) is to book a ticket under the alias, book a refundable ticket under your real name, use your real name and refundable BP to pass TSA, and then refund that ticket and fly on the alias ticket.
But any person who was willing to do something "wrong" could either just get a fake ID or book a ticket under a fake name but print up a fake BP with their real name on it to use at the TSA's ID checker. Since TSA doesn't verify that boarding passes or real or log name of people who pass the checkpoint, there would be no record of travel under the real name. This has been discussed here and elsewhere before.