Invisible Privacy | Online Privacy

Do you think you can hide and never be found? If your pursuer has enough money and time, he, she, they or it can track you down anywhere on earth—even bin Laden found that out.

In my own case, nothing I own is in my own name. A search for my address on Google will come up blank. Nary a clue as to whether I am currently in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, or Spain. A PI can search the records for my driver’s license or pilot’s license in all 50 states and come up blank.

Does this mean I cannot be found? Of course not! I’ll even tell you two ways in how that can be done! (The first one is illegal but “illegal” goes on all the time.)

1. Follow the courier

I have a PO Box in an eastern state. Hire a PI (let’s call him Max) to put a 24-hour watch on the box. When my mail is picked up by a courier (we’ll call him Jimmy), Max will follow him home. He will then lure Jimmy away by some pretext so he can break into his home and search for the address where he sends me my mail. If he cannot find that address, Max will grab Jimmy when he returns home. Jimmy will either voluntarily give up my address or Max will work him over with a knife until he does. But there is an easier way:

2. Meet me in person

This one’s easy—just set up a consultation with me (if you can afford it). Suppose we meet at the reception desk at Wynn’s Encore in Las Vegas. Your PI will be in the distance, shooting pictures of me with a telephoto lens. When he later learns from you my room number, he’ll bribe a confederate to pull my data from the casino’s computers. When all that does is bring up the name and address of my attorney, he’ll wait until I leave for the airport and then follow me. Once he sees which gate I go to, he will contact a detective agency at my destination and shoot them my picture. I will be followed from that airport to my car, and then to whichever home I am currently using.

So am I fearful that some weirdo might track me down for whatever reason? No, becauseit would cost him too much money! And Osama bin Laden would never have been tracked down by a private party—not even by a Gates, a Buffet or a Trump. Only the U.S. government could afford to do it.

Lessons learned:

1. If some multi-millionaire is after you with a vengeance, do not use a courier. Have your mail sent to a foreign country and then scanned and sent to a secret website. You can go to a library and check the website for news.

2. Never, ever, meet anyone in person, because once you do that, you can be followed.

3. Under normal conditions, stop worrying. Tracking you down might cost over a hundred thousand dollars—will your stalker come up with that much money? An untold number of those who’ve read How to be Invisible have disappeared from the radar, and so can you!

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