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| 8538. |
Samantha
Rutherford, NJ
Age: 40
Jul 21, 2011
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NM LLC Anonymity
1. You list one name above, but a different name in the message.
2. All the questions should be emailed to Rosie, and NOT sent as a post.
3. We tried to contact you but the email address you gave me is false. CONTACT ROSIE.
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| 8536. |
Scott
SACRAMENTO, California
Age: 34
Jul 19, 2011
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Nominee
I was wondering if there is any way to set up a false alternate ID for the sole purpose of being my own nominee? (p)
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No.
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| 8535. |
mike
phx, AZ
Age: 40
Jul 18, 2011
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vanilla visa
Any and all comments/experience regarding the Vanilla Visa and online anonymity would be appreciated!
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I know of no good "Vanilla Visas" and it's best to consider online anonymity as impossible.
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| 8531. |
Clint
richardson, tx
Age: 45
Jul 6, 2011
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harassing phone calls
Mr. Luna, with your expertise, surely you can help me and the hundreds of other people to "turn the tables" and make visible the person or outfit that is harassing people across the country. If you google 1-760-705-8888, you'll see what i mean - hundreds and hundreds of posts for help, but no answer. Somehow this person/outfit has made himself/herself invisible by wreaking havoc on hundreds of people with impunity. Can you PLEASE help me and others to identify this person/outfit and address what steps we can take to end it. Thank you so much.
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I cannot perform miracles. Further, my area of expertise is in helping people fade from sight, not in tracking people down. That latter area is for PIs.
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| 8530. |
Walter
Baton Rouge, LA
Age: 62
Jul 5, 2011
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NMLLC Renewals
My son has sent three emails trying to renew his LLC but so far has received no response. I think mine needs to be renewed also. What gives?
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Rosie had never received an e-mail from the address you give. If you are getting her address from the CONTACTS page, the instructions are to first remove the red "X". Did you do that?
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| 8528. |
Jon
Fayetteville, AR
Age: 25
Jun 29, 2011
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LLC for a Business
I've been reading your book for years but have a question that I've only had to think of right now.
Here within 6 months I'm going to be moving from Arkansas to a new state, probably Minnesota and will be starting my own business. I will want to start an LLC but does it make sense for me to file one in Minnesota since it will be an actual business with an actual store front?
I'm familiar with doing LLC's in New Mexico for my person privacy but I'm just curious if those same methods apply to a real business that I'm starting.
Thanks in advanced.
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I suggest you use a Minnesota LLC, despite the loss of privacy.
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| 8525. |
Chris
Charlottesville, VA
Age: 46
Jun 28, 2011
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Concealed Carry
I want to apply for a concealed carry permit here in Virginia, but I don't want to put down my residential address.
I do not have a ghost address other than the street address for the post office where I have PO Box.
Does anyone know if I can use the post office street address as my residential address?
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I believe most states will require a street address. One solution is to give your true street address and then move. But check for any penalties about neglecting to report a change of address.
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| 8524. |
Michael
düsseldorf, Germany
Age: 50
Jun 28, 2011
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Shell Games
An interesting article:
Submitted Link #1: http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-little-house-...
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| 8523. |
Jim
Solvang, CA
Age: 22
Jun 25, 2011
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Truecrypt/Bitlocker Security Hole
Truecrypt/Bitlocker encrypted volumes/drives can now be opened with a new program. This applies only to Microsoft Windows operating systems. To defeat, simply disengage Hibernation on your computer. Here's the article:
Submitted Link #1: http://www.lostpassword.com/hdd-decryption.htm...
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| 8522. |
Mary
London , UK
Age: 44
Jun 25, 2011
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answering door
Hi JJ,
I live alone and my general policy is not to answer the door if I am not expecting a visitor. However, a detective has stated it is better to answer the door and not turn a potential burglary into a homicide. I have surveillance cameras and an intercom and would not go to the door if I did not know the person. Please advise.
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The detective is dead wrong. Women have been raped and killed after opening a door to someone they did not know or expect! (Sadly, one such victim was the pregnant wife of one of my friends, many years ago.)
Make sure you have a stout door, a strong deadbolt, and if necessary, a brace to keep the door shut. The moment you hear anyone trying to break in, call 911 or whatever the emergency number is in the UK.
And don't ask that detective for any more advice!
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| 8519. |
Linda
Philadelphia, PA
Age: 56
Jun 17, 2011
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consulting
I have read so many of your books, some more than once. That I would like to help others, my neighbor is being stalked, I was a witness for her in court, but could't do much more because she was reluctant to take the advice. Now he is back and I am also afraid fro myself because of the testimony. I am a paralegal , but would like to be a PI and consult from home. But all the requirements(in PA) look like you need to be former law enforcement to get any credentials. Is that true ? How else can I help stalking victims in particular and make a little business out of it. I realize I would have to be successful with my privacy first. Now that son is in college I feel he;s old enough to not blab our info to just anyone I have just started ours - because moving is in the near futuure. Any advice about needing to be a PI or consulting from here would be greatly appreciated.
Linda
Philadelphia PA
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I know of no way you can help, and to get a PI license you must have experience with the law or another PI firm.
Sorry not to have better news.
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| 8495. |
Fern
Pleasant Ridge, MI
Age: 36
Jun 12, 2011
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Should I trust the free service Google Voice for my voicemail needs?
Occasionally I receive phone calls from government agencies about my small part-time re-sale business. I only use a google voice number I've had for several years as a voicemail number, always returning the call from a prepaid cell phone used for outbound calls only. I always erase any played google voice mail message but I'm concerned Google may be saving those deleted messages anyway. Should I just get my voicemail service from another prepaid cellphone, never returning calls from that cell phone, thus having one prepaid cellphone for incoming voicemail messages and the other to make calls, return calls on only, always using *67. Right?
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I am not sure of the answer but why not post your question on the forum?
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| 8485. |
Peter
New York, New York
Age: 35
May 29, 2011
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Tracking
Link to an online article about the latest in surveillance technology. Worth a read and consideration. A comment in the comments section I feel is worth highlighting in full "what people are concerned with is the accuracy of information retrieved. As an iPhone user, I recently tested the available software that shows on a map your movements. The big problem was that it showed I have been to Beflast when I never had (not with an iPhone), but it didnt register the fact I'd been in Cardiff, Bristol or Norfolk for instance. If the police produce information using software like that being trialled that's given in evidence and places you somewhere you've not been, and it so happens a crime has been committed for which you fit a description, it's going to be damn hard to prove otherwise - and that any proprietary software is inaccurate. Apart from the infringement on personal freedom, it's the accuracy people are concerned about."
Submitted Link #1: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-138...
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| 8481. |
Robert
London, Great Britain
Age: 45
May 25, 2011
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Fugative from Law
How Susan LeFevre was found? Thanks!
NEW START FOR 30 YEAR FUGITIVE MUM
Susan LeFevre with her husband Alan Walsh
Tuesday May 19,2009
A California mother of three who spent decades evading the law after escaping from a Michigan prison has been freed after serving a little more than a year in prison following her recapture.
Family members greeted Susan LeFevre, 54, when she was released from Huron Valley prison, south of Ann Arbor.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/102175/New-sta...
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| 8480. |
Mike
Detroit, MI
Age: 46
May 17, 2011
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New LLC
I have been in Medical device sales for a number of years and was recently downsized. I have started my own distributorship and I have quickly picked up 3 product lines. I would like to start my own LLC & keep this going but my credit is shot (no bankruptcy but shot). I'm looking to your program (Luna) as my first option but I know that some of the manufacturers want credit reports and business banking accounts. Is it (the LLC) still even possible?
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This question would have been better directed to Rosie Enriquez, so I sent it on to her. Here is her answer:
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Well, the issue here is not really clear to me-- does he need a line of credit? Or is he just concerned about a background information check revealing he has bad credit? What is his goal in having a business LLC?
No credit is required to have an LLC, but having an LLC does not mean you can get credit without securing the credit as an individual. Generally a bank would not give credit to any business, regardless of its entity status, if the business does not have assets that can attached or factored. If he actually needs a credit line, then I would suggest he needs to find someone else to co-sign it, or he needs to find a friend to lend him his working capital.
If the question is about bad credit making him an unacceptable manufacturer's rep, then an article I recently read in a job-hunters newsletter might be applicable. The author suggested that a prospective employee with bad credit (in this case, prospective rep) should raise the bad credit issue up front, briefly explain the circumstances, and find out if this will be considered a problem. Some employers will be able to work it out, but are likely to be less impressed if they do not find it out directly from the applicant but rather through the credit check.
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| 8479. |
Skip
Seneca, SC
Age: 60
May 16, 2011
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email
I sent a short email to the address in your book, but it came back. What's next? I'd like to have an answer, but if you won't, let me know and I'll try to get by without it. It's hard to experiment, though, if you don't really know what you're doing.
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To what address did you send it?????
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| 8478. |
Bob
New York, NY
Age: 35
May 16, 2011
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The future of #8450
I do machine learning and data mining. There are a few unavoidable facts about the modern internet which make this a bit of a scary topic.
* If the information is publicly accessible on the web, it can be aggregated into a database.
* A complete profile can be built automatically from fragmentary data by looking for patterns of association, clusters, and outliers in publicly available data.
* If your photo is on the web and connected with any identity data, it can be linked with a complete profile.
With all that, I would be a little shocked not to see augmented reality goggles within about ten years which can pull up someone's credit history, routine social activities, home address, sexual habits, and taste in food. Toy versions of this "app" have already been demonstrated. Facial recognition and data mining of personal information are Solved Problems. Pocket devices which can take your photo and send it to a remote database for comparison are Solved Problems.
See step 1: Do not link your name and your home address, anywhere. With the internet, this association will be stored in a computer, forever, outside your control about who it gets passed to. Always assume that "who" will be "anyone with a computer" for any information you give away - whether or not you put it online yourself.
Technology will continue to make the rest of the problem take much more creativity while making active defense of one's privacy even more essential.
Scary story number two: the patterns in my writing can potentially be used to connect this to many of the other things I've posted online through textual analysis algorithms which have been known for a long time now. The only thing stopping it from happening is the computational cost it would incur to do this for everyone at once.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.canaryislandspress.com/index.cfm/fa/sho...
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| 8477. |
dave
Orlando, FL
Age: 55
May 16, 2011
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real estate
Have always remained in contact with an individual whom I went through the first 11 grades with. Now in the ranks where I could buy into an "over 55" housing community, these are the actions I took to insure privacy. With a handful of businesses, vacation homes as rentals my go-between agreed to purchase my property. Any costs associated with initial changes were also under his name. Nothing unusual under this cluster of operations.
LLC was used and different from others, under this control, singles out this address.
Utilities were placed under a 'doing business as' and with any tax matter the LLC name immediately links me which to cover costs. Post Office said we wouldn't receive mail as with a renovation, the box had to move from the home to the street. Never heard anything since as this action was never taken. Mail is received elsewhere.
Neighbors, not particularly close (distance), are nice and know I'm a tennant who rents from someone who did a swell property rework.
Not many may have a friend who can be this trusted but the portion of his will I was able to see, with his attorney, shows that in case of incident to this party, the address is to go under my name.
Irksome issue is property insurance. Everything has its risks!
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| 8475. |
Jim
Austin, Texas
Age: 49
May 12, 2011
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Real Estate part 2
In response to your previous response, the form would not allow me to put the links in the form, it said it was flagged as spam (which it was not). So I put them both in the url field separated by a comma and apparently that broke the first link and sends to a general page.
I will list the Zuckerberg link only below because the form will not allow me to submit with a link in the body and my attempt to give both links failed.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?...
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If you ever become as famous as Mark Zuckerberg, you can forget about privacy.
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| 8474. |
Jim
Austin, Texas
Age: 49
May 12, 2011
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A Real Estate Purchase Lesson
Hi,
Love your books and your site. I have read both your editions of "How to Be Invisible" and purchased my copy at a Barnes and Noble for cash in a nearby town.
I plan to use your NM LLC to purchase property in the next couple years. However, in the news just in the last week there have been two high profile real estate purchases using hidden LLC's that have exposed the famous buyers.
Jennifer Aniston and Mark Zuckerberg. Here are the links to articles that call out exactly the LLC/Trust vehicle used though they do not appear to be linked even on paper to these people:
My question is... if these people have been outed despite their careful privacy tactics, how is it possible to do this without being tracked down? Is it possible someone involved in the paperwork outed them for cash?
Is our only ultimate security in "not being famous" or is there hope for even the famous? Did they make a mistake that we can avoid or are we safe only if we are private citizens and not household names?
Submitted Link #1: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13864...
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In the link you provide, I fail to see anything about Jennifer Aniston and Mark Zuckerberg using LLCs.
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