A couple things:
Columbus is/was apparently an accident per a family members friend, if this is false someone entered crazy town like a lot of folks on SM.
Pictures of BG: Saw a post on SM and it was a spoof theory at first (newly released pics form LE which was false, so different angle with zoom on PC) and then realized they made an excellent discovery. And I'm sharing the thought here because it's revelant. Take BG pic on phone, crop, zoom in and then hold your phone at various angles. You get some very interesting perspective by doing so and the white thing under the jacket looks a more familiar, facial features change and you may get an ah ha moment like I did. Just interesting is all. Because we're all looking at a straight flat pic - which wasn't taken from a flat front perfect straight angle I don't think. JMO
Pre-paid, technology, etc.
We don't know if tech savvy - maybe, maybe not. Regardless the option to circumvent the patriot act and FFC combo for identity is very easy. For example, right now - today I can do an advanced search on google with a field search of say ss#, combined with filetype: .xls and find all kinds of spreadsheets with people's social security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, kids, etc. very easily. It's scary. A lot of membership sites make these mistakes.
Unfortunately small organizations (churches, non-profits, sports groups and the like) don't have the money, policies and procedures in place to put up a wall between the Internet and accidentally releasing someone's private info, sometimes even under password, but because of poor code and other reasons I won't go into it's shown to the public. So, it's very easy to get around the pre-paid debit card name thing by using a name and random address at say a PO Box (most have street addresses too) in a small town that doesn't look at IDs (mine didn't) to then turn around and get your newly named debit card complete with new identity to then go out and get a burner phone registered with. Then you just register for all social with new name, address, phone, etc. Simple as pie. Some don't even require this and if you build a fake trail the tech based fact checks car be "socially" maneuvered.
Or you can just go onto the onion router (dark web) using a proxy and download a full jacket complete with IDs, birth certificates - the whole works. Quality depends on how much money you have, your perceived security by the salesmen, etc. And the dark web/net whatever isn't so dark. You can get there in literally just a few clicks of your mouse.
Just clearing up some confusion. A determined person with zero tech skills can watch YouTube videos and tutorials online if they really wanted to. I fixed my wife's car watching YouTube for example. There are also numerous books on the subject complete with steps, etc in some public libraries. And the really good stuff can be found in the same spots right next to those movies some of us watch on our kindle fire sticks - you just need a PC or smart phone. Just saying
Carry on....