| Most Saturday afternoons I head to the local | | | | Get a new cell-phone with a different number and |
| bookstore. I love to watch people reading books | | | | a different area code from the original phone. By |
| about offshore banking, hiding assets and how to | | | | doing this no one will be able to track where you |
| disappear. It's usually your typical middle-aged guy | | | | have called. Remember if you make one call from |
| dreaming about a new life. I watch as they get | | | | your home, work or cousin's house that is all I |
| caught up in their imaginary world. Their eyes light | | | | need to locate you. Get yourself a locker and |
| up at the thought of leaving all their troubles | | | | leave all your tools in the locker, never bring them |
| behind. Reading all those great stories about | | | | home or to work. If you accidentally toss them in |
| beach-front living, escaping into oblivion, hiding your | | | | the trash, then someone who is searching your |
| assets, and not paying taxes. However, not one | | | | trash will find them. When you are ready to |
| of those books shares the flip-side. They don't tell | | | | escape you can empty your locker and destroy |
| you about the skip-tracer who sits in his office | | | | all information that could leave a trail straight to |
| and is paid to find people who did what you are | | | | you. |
| dreaming of. | | | | Go online and get a mailbox from Mailbox Etc. ( |
| A little tid-bit on skip-tracers, we do it because | | | | Open up a corporation online in that state. Have all |
| there is an adrenaline rush in what we do. What's | | | | mail go to the above address. Make that address |
| even better is I get to bill my client and make | | | | your service of process and your registered |
| some money. As we say in my office, 'its all | | | | agent. When you have all your corporate |
| about the Benjamins'. If your name comes across | | | | information. Take a trip to that state. When you |
| my desk and the money is right you are my | | | | go to the bank, you will sit down and open an |
| hunt. I will spend my day finding your mistakes, | | | | account. The person opening the account will call |
| be it through the utility company, the cable TV | | | | Telecheck which is a service bank used to search |
| Company, or that collect call from Cabo San | | | | whether or not you have any overdrafts left |
| Lucas to your sister Edith. I have found many | | | | over from other banks. They will run your name |
| people from Boston to Bali. Usually I find them | | | | and there will be a record of you in any state |
| because of the little mistakes they make before | | | | that you've open an account in. So any skip-tracer |
| they departed or while basking in the sun. Let me | | | | with half a brain will find that account and locate |
| share a few thoughts with you about escaping. | | | | your mailbox at Mailbox Etc. Give the person you |
| Here are the usual mistakes: The woman from | | | | open the account with your Mailbox Etc. address. |
| Beverly Hills who called her doctor asking for her | | | | Do not give them a valid phone number or one of |
| medical records to be shipped to Anquilla. A | | | | your pre-paid numbers. Like the song says |
| gentleman from New Jersey who stole money | | | | 867-5309 its one number you can't forget and it's |
| from his company and hid in the Dominican | | | | a great conversation piece with the banker. Tell |
| Republic and then had Barnes & Noble change his | | | | them the number won't be in service till next |
| shipping address to his beach-front condo. The list | | | | week. |
| goes on and on. When you pick up and leave to | | | | Then contact Idealogic ( in Canada and have them |
| escape your creditors or for other reasons, there | | | | open a Canadian corporation for you. Give |
| are companies out there like Ahearn Group ( and | | | | Idealogic all your information from the above |
| many other excellent ones that love the challenge | | | | chosen state. Once you receive all your Canadian |
| of finding you. To skip-tracers it's a game we get | | | | information open an account with BMO ( which |
| paid to play. We can make as many mistakes as | | | | they should do via-mail or possibly online; if not, a |
| we want; the one you make is the one that most | | | | visit to Montreal is always great. Once you have |
| likely leads us to you. Sit back, take some notes | | | | all of the necessary papers have Idealogic, BMO |
| and understand the game from my point of view. | | | | and your bank in the chosen state forward |
| Most people read a book then pick up and go. | | | | everything to your Mailbox Etc. address. When all |
| They simply disconnect their services with no | | | | is said and done have all of your mail from the |
| forwarding address and leave. Big mistake; take | | | | Mailbox Etc. shipped to you, and when all papers |
| your time and follow the below steps for making | | | | are in hand from the Mailbox Etc. forward them |
| your escape last. Okay first step, do not use | | | | to New York, then from New York to Chicago, |
| your home, work or cell-phone, and do not use | | | | then on to Atlanta, create a big loop. Do all your |
| your calling card. Do not use any of your credit | | | | banking online, the bank will be happy not to mail |
| cards to purchase anything in the place you are | | | | you your bank statements. Remember always |
| going to escape to. You should develop your plan | | | | access your accounts from an Internet |
| at least six months before you hit the road. In | | | | café. |
| the meantime have all of your services, cable, | | | | You can then transfer money from the US to |
| electric, phone bills forwarded to any GPO in the | | | | Canada and then from Canada to your chosen |
| country. Call those companies every month and | | | | offshore haven. Belize is a good place - they do |
| find your balances and pay them. Make sure all | | | | not adhere to MLAT (mutual legal assistance |
| the bills go to different states. Have a little fun: | | | | treaty). Never use your ATM from your US |
| one month have them send it to Oshkosh the | | | | account; never use your ATM from your |
| next to Bogota, New Jersey. Let them know | | | | Canadian account. Use your Canadian and U.S. |
| they have the wrong Social Security number on | | | | accounts as buffers for your chosen offshore |
| file and have them change it. Next month give | | | | haven. |
| them your cousin Henry's phone number in | | | | One time I was searching for an individual who for |
| Toronto in case they need to reach you. The key | | | | the life of me I could not find: I could neither find |
| here is to load your account with so much | | | | a forwarding address, nor any credit trace, nor |
| information you are creating misinformation. | | | | transfer of motor vehicles, then it dawned on me |
| Go online and get yourself a Jfax ( account. For | | | | that this person must have flown to his |
| $9.99 per month you can get a phone number in | | | | destination. So I checked the airlines and bingo, |
| any state or almost any country from Jfax. | | | | there it was: his frequent flyer account. On his last |
| When someone calls your Jfax number, which will | | | | trip he had miles added to his account and I knew |
| have your personalized recording on it, the | | | | exactly where he went. Pay for your ticket in |
| message will be forwarded to your email address | | | | cash at the airport. |
| and you will be able to retrieve that message | | | | Don't use your frequent flier account. Cancel your |
| from anywhere in the world. Make sure the email | | | | blockbuster membership. Do not transfer any of |
| address you give is a Yahoo or Hotmail address. | | | | your magazine subscriptions. If you are receiving |
| Pay for your Jfax account for at least one year. | | | | any type of direct deposit from the government, |
| This way there will be no transactions on your | | | | such as retirement money, do it through the |
| credit card in the coming months. Some | | | | account you opened. Don't get a library card in |
| skip-tracer trying to identify your number will only | | | | your new location, do not get cable service under |
| be able to get an email address from Jfax. What's | | | | your name. Do everything through the name of |
| also great about Jfax is you can fax directly from | | | | your foreign corporation. Make sure your foreign |
| the Internet if you need to. Do not do any of | | | | corporation has no similarities to your name or |
| your searching from your home or work | | | | anything from your past. |
| computer. Go to an Internet café and do all | | | | Calling family and friends is a touchy issue, |
| of your research there. | | | | depending on your personal situation. With |
| Go by yourself to a pre-paid cell-phone and never | | | | technology today you just don't know when you |
| give anybody the number. Make sure you can dial | | | | call someone from, say, Costa Rica, whether or |
| an international number with your cell-phone. If | | | | not your number shows up on their caller ID. If it |
| not, buy a pre-paid calling card then throw it away | | | | does and they happen to call you back, someone |
| when it expires, do not reload it. With the pre-paid | | | | will be able to track your location. All your effort |
| cell-phone get a phone number that has an area | | | | and hard work will be thrown out the window. So |
| code in another state. When you order your | | | | if you need to get in touch, get yourself another |
| pre-pay cell-phone pay cash and give them a | | | | pre-paid cell-phone from a different place and call |
| different name. Never call anybody with that | | | | those you need to speak to through your |
| phone, the number might show up on his or her | | | | cell-phone. Dump the phone every so often. |
| caller ID. Start calling where you're looking to | | | | So the above are the basics of how to disappear. |
| escape to from your pre-paid cell number or | | | | Take your time, do your research and enjoy the |
| calling card. Dump that phone every month, yes, | | | | beach. |
| the actual phone, and get yourself a new one. | | | | |