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peter
florida
Age: 30
Jun 9, 2009
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privacy
jj,
does getting renters insurance mess up ones privacy efforts? i am using a ghost address and nothing comes to my rented home in my name including cable, phone, electrical utilities....etc but i have to have the renters insurance in the home where i occupy in case of damages, theft...etc
any opinion?
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I have never used nor recommended renter's insurance. However, if you have so many valuables in your home that you cannot do without it, then yes, you will have to reveal your home address. Is this a big danger to your privacy? I don't think so.
However, see Seth's comment #6009, above. Perhaps other readers can chime in on this one, as well.
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| 6007. |
kammi
carmel, ny
Age: 60
Jun 9, 2009
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Strange behavior - Visa Gift Card.
When I checked my balance on the above subject card, I found that $37.00 had been deducted from the card for a $7.25 gasoline purchase. When asked the gas station about this I was told that the money was reserved and the settlement process would take place over night; I found this strange, but interesting. The next day when the numbers were not as I believed they should be I called, and I was told that I should give it another day or two. Today, two days later, I checked the balance (via internet, with no particular security) an saw that the card was flagged as a possible fraud. I find this deeply worrisome, and I invite comment and advice. For now I am taking no action I no more than $100.00 at risk, within the card itself - can walk away from it. I bought this card to make purchases over the internet and so my personal information is linked within those orders; even though I was not allowed to use this gift card to pay for the items I wished to order, and had to substite another brand of gift card. Backgound Information: I do have problems with other Visa card; and I am taking advice on my unsecured detd .
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| 6005. |
Susan
Cleveland, OH
Age: 53
Jun 8, 2009
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Re: #5995, Shadow Escrow & Foreclosure
I don't know anything about Shadow Escrow, but for advice in fighting foreclosure check out Neil Garfield's Living Lies website. Make them produce the note, and use the court procedures to your advantage.
Submitted Link #1: http://livinglies.wordpress.com/...
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| 6004. |
Hu
Autthaya, Thailand
Age: 54
Jun 7, 2009
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2nd Ring of Protection
Here is one of the security devices you mention in your book-Invisible Money. One of the 5 rings of protection. This is the 2nd ring-the loud noise deterrent. Just Google 12 Gauge Boundary Security System and you will get several results you can check out. This one goes for $90.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.ajarmsbooksellers.com/cgi-bin/ajarms/12...
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It's the identical unit sold by Shomer-Tec but Shomer-Tec sells it for much less.
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| 6002. |
Tina
Great Falls, Montana
Age: 45
Jun 7, 2009
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Where to start?
I just found your book! I was wondering what should be my first step? A ghost address or the LLC?
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By all means start with a ghost address in Great Falls, Black Eagle, or Vaughn. (Later, you may wish to add a ghost address in Alaska.) For your current vehicle, try for a change of address so the DMV no longer lists your true home address. (Always good to hear from a reader in one of my favorite states!)
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| 6001. |
Ray
Augusta, GA
Age: 43
Jun 6, 2009
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Dave- #5961
The phone I have is a chinese clone (CECT) and has no GPS chip in it.
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| 6000. |
Ashley
Beverly Hills, CA
Age: 27
Jun 6, 2009
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Phone for Turks & Caicos Islands
Remember when you offered copies of that corporation in the T & C Islands? I bought that and have been using it ever since--lots of fun! Now, I'd like to add a phone number on my business cards. Would that new phone number in the Canary Islands work?
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No, not if you give your cards to anyone who knows that calls to the the T & C Islands start with 1+ instead of 011+. Here's the Difference:
CANARY ISLANDS:
011-34-606-18-xxxx
TURKS & CAICOS:
1-649-941-xxxx
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| 5997. |
Ben
Chicago, IL
Age: 33
Jun 6, 2009
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Re: 5970
Pat if you want to host a controversial website PRQ in Stockholm, Sweden is who you need to contact. They host wikileaks and other controversial sites and don't care about legal threats (they only respond to Swedish court orders).
They also offer VPN services and they should be able to give some guidance on everything.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.prq.se...
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| 5996. |
Eddie
Palo Alto
Age: 27
Jun 6, 2009
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Need C.I. address and phone TODAY
hi jj -- i already have the canary islands ghost address but i need that other one thats ok for domain names, and the phone number as well. big rush. any way i can set that up right now, without waiting? thanks for a fast answer.
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How's this for fast? (Four minutes)
Rosie does have same-day service now, and I think she has some big discount this month on both phone and second address, for those who already have the C.I. service. Contact her right now.
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Drew
Putnam, NY
Age: 64
Jun 5, 2009
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Shadow Escrow.
I may have to face, and God willing, fight a foreclosure action. I am thinking about trying to set-up what I'm calling a Shadow Escrow Account. I believe that much of the thinking that goes into creating or preserving privacy, could with some modification, be useful in my situation. The modification that I feel might be important in my situation, is that it might actually be wise have the Shadow Escrow as an Attorney Trust Account. Because I cannot predict how or under what conditions this money may have to be "surfaced". Advice will be gratefully received. Thanks in advance to all responders
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| 5990. |
Dave
Eagan, MN
Age: 44
Jun 4, 2009
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Free Bank of Lakota (?)
Here is a bank on Indian territory that could be one of the most private banks that a U.S. person could want. What do you think of their privacy techniques JJ ?
Submitted Link #1: http://www.chrismartenson.com/forum/free-lakota-ba...
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This following quote is from the link I posted below.
Now, all that being said, I believe that this “Free Bank of Lakota” is a total scam! I highly doubt that it has anything to do with the real Lakotah Tribe or Russell Means. There is no mention of this bank or this currency on either Means website or the Lakotah website. The current market value of once ounce of silver is under $15.00, to charge people $40.00 an ounce for silver is just criminal. The Lakotah people are a proud and honest people, they would never operate a scam like this.
The website for the AOCS currencies http://www.opencurrency.com/currencies.php has different sites of “novelty” silver coins listed. All of them priced at $50 (the face value of the “Lakota” coin), which is way overpriced for silver.
The people behind this should be ashamed for making profit by exploiting name of the Lakotah people, and taking advantage of people who don’t know enough about silver investing to spot such a scam.
By the way, the real Lakotah do spell their name with an “H” so don’t you think that they would have named their first bank likewise?
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| 5989. |
jay
phoenix,az
Age: 35
Jun 3, 2009
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private water company
its interesting to read what was said in this blog about that Alaska water company having to provide services. we are about ready to hook up water service to a new house, and this "privat water company" has a board of directors, by laws and requires that you become a part-owner of the company. The form asks for a SSN, wants previous addresses, a relative name, employer, and because this house sits on more than 5 acres, needs the whole thing notarized. Besides getting a cistern installed, standing out like a sore thumb by threatening legal action may limit our ability to use an alternate name like we hoped and I wonder how "searable" a private water company would be as opposed to a government one? I can fake the relatives, and employer and may be able to get around providing the SSN, but the notary seems difficult. any suggestions short of hiring you to come help us hook up the water JJ?
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Can you pay a nominee to furnish all HIS information? Short of that, see if a sharp attorney can't help you by setting everything up with a trust or an LLC. Don't give up easily!
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| 5988. |
Ben
Chicago, IL
Age: 33
Jun 3, 2009
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Egyptian Cell Phones
Egyptian Cell Phones have the same tracking features as any other cell phone in the world. The iPhone is the one phone sold in Egypt that has the user end of the GPS disabled.
If you want phones that are less likely to have as much creepy stuff on them try the website I listed below. They sell a lot of cheap knock off unlocked gsm cell phones shipped straight from Hong Kong.
Any cell phone can still be used as a tracking device, but a phone without all the e911/agps stuff wouldn't be as accurate.
On a sidenote that site also sells a lot of cool gadgets like pen cameras, but everything is of varying quality some good, some bad and some very dangerous (like the unfiltered high powered lasers that could blind you).
Submitted Link #1: http://dealextreme.com...
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| 5987. |
Johnny
AZ, USA
Age: 25
Jun 3, 2009
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Internet Privacy Expert / Pat's question #5970
Hi JJ, if you have an e-mail address for Pat, please give him mine. I'm fairly sure I could answer most questions he has about internet proxies, VPN's, VPS's, servers and the like.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.canaryislandspress.com/index.cfm/fa/sho...
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Thanks for the offer, Johnny, but Pat failed to include an e-mail address.
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| 5986. |
Chip
Ardmore, PA
Age: 41
Jun 2, 2009
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Bank searches
In How to be Invisible you mention bank account searches.
If someone is searching for assets how exactly do they find your bank accounts (I know you said it is done by state)?
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That is set up as the subject of one of my blogs, for later this month. If you check the new post each Monday, you'll soon find an answer to your question.
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| 5985. |
Trixie
Florence Oregon
Age: 45
Jun 2, 2009
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Mis-direction
More of a comment than a question. Because of your teachings, we have successfully ditched the repo man, for nearly a year now. Yes, we said a YEAR!
We had one of those preditory auto loans from one of those banks that needed to be bailed out by the U.S. government.
We are days away from being able to legally file a Chapter 13 (we had to wait that 4 year period) Letters from the attorney's office went out to our creditors we were filing etc 2 weeks ago.
Suddenly, the preditory bank, decided to repo the car.
We have been driving the repo tow truck guy knuts. Why? Because we followed your advice YEARS AGO.
We never have our real address connected to our vehicles or creditors.
For the past 3 years everything has been going to "mothers". Along with 9 other relatives mail.
Here are some other tricks that we have pulled to mis-direct.
1. When you get a new phone number (cell phone only-we NEVER do land lines anymore)"Google" the number. Sometimes it has been used before. This could be good mis-direction info later on.
2. Take your new phone number, and make up a few healthly mis-directions on those "who's number is this?" Website search engines. Our favorite is to make ourselves science intellectuals, with egg head jobs at dull colleges. That way, anyone "googles" your phone number, sees a smart egghead, and moves on.
3. Post fake stuff about yourself. We found a few blog types that let you insert a picture of someone. We picked a good looking, couple, posing in front of their new beach house in Malibu, Ca.
Now, anyone googling our names for images--get these two models,not us.
4. Add extra phone lines to your cell phone accounts. When our current numbers became over used, we found we could add extra phones with new numbers to our existing accounts. No new credit checks, just get new phones, and fresh numbers to use.
5. After we file our bankruptcy, we are going to get new license plates for the car. We cover up the VIN # with a postcard, and use fake parking lot stickers that aren't ours( car bone yards are good for this peal and stick relocation).
6. Mis-direct, Mis-direct, Mis-direct.
7. Another fun thing to do is: Change your first names every time you are introduced at the gym or apartment complex. Any time the name game comes up, around the gym, we change our first names, so other gym members don't get the same name over and over again on us. This works well for the apartment complex we live in, and a social club we attend but aren't paying members of. Church--just use fake names here--god doesn't care what name you use to make your tidings in....
8. Last but not least. Got a old rubber stamp from a large well known second had store. The same came from a business that had gone out of business 5 years earlier. When we needed to enlighten someone about something going on, without having to "get involved" we used the stamp as a return address. If anyone "googled" the return address, all they get is a history of this out of business, business. This could be a way around not wanting your return address photographed by the U.S. Post Office.
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Although I do not agree with all you say (especially #7), some of the ideas were right on the mark (such as #2) so I am posting this.
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Mike
Worcester, MA
Age: 48
Jun 1, 2009
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Boston Globe magazine college issue
You and/or your readers may find some of these articles from last Sunday's Boston Globe magazine useful as they discuss going to college from some non-traditional points of view.
Submitted Link #1: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/...
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Nona
SF, CA
Age: 44
Jun 1, 2009
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tracking Wi-Fi
Is this similar to Seth's post a while back?
"BOSTON — Wanderers with phones and other devices that have GPS chips can figure out where they are using signals from satellites thousands of miles up, but those are easily blocked by walls or trees. The founders of Skyhook Wireless discovered some alternative navigational beacons: the signals coming from the Wi-Fi network in the coffee shop across the street, or the apartment upstairs."
2000 cities around the world have been 'mapped' so far!
Submitted Link #1: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/start...
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Jake
SD
Age: 25
Jun 1, 2009
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Deceased - Do Not Contact
I was recently looking for ways to stop junk mail and preserve my privacy, and I came across an opt-out page of the DMA. There is a section specifically dedicated to deceased individuals - you can register their names and halt their junk mail.
My question is, what's to stop a living person like me from putting his name on this list? The DMA has no need to know if I'm alive or not, and it sounds like a good way to get out of these marketing databases. Is this a good strategy, or are there problems that could arise with pretending to be 'deceased'?
Submitted Link #1: https://www.ims-dm.com/cgi/ddnc.php...
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tHIS may complicate your life. If a bank gets hold of it, any acounts you have will be closed. I much prefer to use my rubber stamp and then return to sender:
MOVED--LEFT NO ADDRESS
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Dave
Eagan, MN, USA
Age: 44
Jun 1, 2009
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Charitable Remainder Unitrust
Do you know where we could get a cookie cutter and inexpensive charitable remainder unitrust to hold 90% of the stock in our invisible business?
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You need a lawyer for such a trust, and not just any lawyer. He or she has to specialize in CRUTs. Also, remember that once the principal is given to the trust, it cannot be removed. Be sure to ask if running an active business with the trust is even allowed.
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