Method and system for transacting an anonymous purchase over the internet

A computer-implemented purchasing system for transacting an anonymous purchase between at least two computing devices interconnected by a network, comprising:

• a purchasing application residing on a first computing device, said purchasing application receptive of purchaser credit account information from a purchaser;
• an intermediary application residing on a second computing device and being interconnected to said purchasing application by the network, said intermediary application being operative to provide non-personalized intermediary credit account information in response to receiving purchaser credit account information, the non-personalized intermediary credit account including pseudo purchase transactional information;
• said purchasing application further being receptive of purchase transactional information from the purchaser, including the non-personalized intermediary credit account information;
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• a retailer application residing on a third computing device and being interconnected to said purchasing application by the network, said retailer application receptive of the purchasing transactional information from the purchasing application and being operative to transact a purchase using the non-personalized intermediary credit account information, thereby preserving the anonymity of the purchaser.