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Summary: A Great Start!
Review: The author gives a wonderful overview of the topic of privacy. The book itself is an easy ready, and very funny. Even if one does not wish to lower their financial profile, I would recommend this book (just for the entertainment value).For those with fewer assets, or who wish to keep all of their activity within the U.S., I would also like to recommend "Bullet Proof Privacy" by Boston T Party.
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Summary: Interesting but....
Review: The book is touted as what is needed to know in order to hide ones identity......then it turns right around and tells how one, who is attempting to hide his/her identity, can be discovered by someone who reads his book. So if we all read his book, noone can hide from anyone, right. I'm sure those in the business of investigations know all the tricks...so although you may be able to make it harder to be tracked down, if someone doing the tracking has the same knowledge on all the tricks then one just cannot hide.
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Summary: CONTRADICTION
Review: The Book Review at the top of the main page states that "Pankau explains step-by-step how to successfully get away or find someone who has." So . . . he does? How oblivious does one have to be in order to miss the inherent contradiction here? If Pankau can instruct a person or entity in how to find someone who has "successfully" gotten away, then he has failed to show the other person how to successfully "get away." He cannot have it BOTH ways. He cannot teach one person how to "successfully" find another person who has been taught how to "successfully" hide himself.
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Summary: CONTRADICTION
Review: The Book Review at the top of the main page states that "Pankau explains step-by-step how to successfully get away or find someone who has." So . . . he does? How oblivious does one have to be in order to miss the inherent contradiction here? If Pankau can instruct a person or entity in how to find someone who has "successfully" gotten away, then he has failed to show the other person how to successfully "get away." He cannot have it BOTH ways. He cannot teach one person how to "successfully" find another person who has been taught how to "successfully" hide himself.
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Summary: Same old [stuff]....
Review: The cover of the book makes big promises, but as I expected, it is nothing but filler material. The synopsis of the book can be written in one sentence: Change identity, move overseas, hide money, and be careful. How? Buy yourself an ID or a passport. That was the most direct advice in the book. The rest is written in broad generalities and suppositions. In summary, this book is just plain useless.
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Summary: This book can make you immortal and immune to the government
Review: The following title has been written to inform the public of the upcoming possibility of losing one's own individual rights and freedom in the United States Of America, unimagineable as it may sound. This book, if read carefully with complete undivided attention, will give one the personal, keen, intellectual power to do as one wishes, to do anything one's heart and desire so craves and wants, out of need, nessecity, or lust, and get away with them each and every time. But these strategies must be practiced and assured that it is 100% effective, and it will! It is up to the individual's will power, and it definitely will!! ENJOY THE READING!
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Summary: Hook Line and Stinker
Review: This book claims to be "A Step-by-Step Guide to Vanishing Without a Trace"... Truth is the information in this book is less helpful than the information provided in the title. He tells you what to do, but offers no advice on how to do it. A good many of the disappearing methods he recommends are illegal, and seem impossible (I guess. Since he only told me to bribe a Mexican official to fake my death and offered no information on how to do it, I really have no idea how possible it is.) Over all it was a fun idea and a waste of money.
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Summary: Average book with some useful information
Review: This book contains some good descriptions of countries a person might want to vacation in, and some interesting short stories about people who have found ways to defraud the government or an estranged spouse, but it doesn't contain much the average citizen can use as far as actually disappearing goes.
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Summary: Useless fantasy book
Review: This book does show you how the government finds ways to keep your money, but it does VERY little to show you how to stop them. It tells you to open up an account offshore and move your assets off to that account. Unfortunately it does not tel you how. It doesn't tell you how hard it is opening an offshore account. Or how most banks require ID and references. And how do you move the money offshore without the government finding out, well thats for you to figure out. The guy who wrote this book is a absolute joke. He knows very little about the subject except for how the government attempts to catch you, but gives no real answers as to how to get around it. Most of the information in this book can be found out with very little research, which is what I think this guy did. He claims to be the best detective in the US, but I seriously doubt a Paladin Press writer is anything more than a sorry writer, who lacks the know how to actually attempt anything they write about. This guy claims Belize is the greatest country to live in for little money and without government interference. Has he ever been to Belize. I honestly don't think he has. Belize is horribly crime ridden in the cities. And the nice areas are all tourist areas. Not a great place to live. Don't buy this book, just do a little internet research on offshore banking and you will have more information than is in this book. And you'll probably know alot more than the author on the subject.
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Summary: Don,t judge a book by its cover
Review: This book has a much broader range of appeal to the comman person than the title indicates. Everyone is affected by the privacy issues discussed in the book. The terms "hide" and "disappear" should'nt scare anyone off. Mr.Pankau lays out invaluable information in the context of someone "vanishing without a trace", but most of it relates directly to all of us. After reading his book I'm much more aware of the value of my privacy,and the steps to take to protect it in the future.The section on "the best places disappear to" is valuable to anyone thinking of retiring in a foreign country, regardless of "criminal" issues. Numerous countries and areas are rated for livability followed by recommendations and warnings.Mr Pankau's credentials are solid. He is highly respected internationally as an author(two bestsellers), speaker and most impressively, one of the top private investigators in the country. This is a man who has built a solid business and reputation. I trust the advice in this book because I have considered the source. Enough said.
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