How to Hide: A Practical Guide to Vanishing and Taking Your Assets With You
Author
David Wilkening
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
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There are many reasons why you might decide to leave your life. You could be one of the nearly 800,000 million Americans every year who have been forced to file for bankruptcy or one of the 900,000 individuals who files for divorce annually. Whatever reason you may have for wanting to hide your assets and disappear without a trace, this book is a complete walkthrough of the process you should use to do so. The first thing you will learn is how you can start planning your move out of the United States. What will you need to do and know before you prepare to leave to ensure that your move goes off smoothly? The choice between staying in the U.S. and leaving the country will be provided, as well as a rundown of very important questions you must ask yourself before you leave your old life behind, including cautions, and the legal implications of your departure that can never be undone. You will learn where the best places in the world are to hide yourself and your assets. The process of diversifying your money out of U.S. credit bureau and Financial Crime Enforcement Network oversight will be provided, allowing you to start hiding your assets in nondescript, untraceable locations. You will learn what you need to do to start generating your new identity and what ties need to be completely severed in order to make sure your old identity does not come back to haunt you. You will learn how to travel in and out of your new country and the U.S. with ease and how you can access, move, and keep your money safely without giving away where it is hidden. The most important aspect of this book will be the chapter on how you will be searched for and what you should expect. The various purposes for your departure will affect how thoroughly you are sought out and what you must do to stay hidden. Additionally, you will be shown how to maintain your lifestyle according to where you move and what your assets are worth in your new home. A special chapter geared exclusively toward the victims of abuse, including spousal, domestic, or other types, is included, along with information on what to do if you have children or other ties to your former life. Finally, you will be shown how the Internet will become an invaluable tool to you in staying hidden, but also a portal through which people can find and stay in contact with you. For anyone seeking to finally break free of their old life and be gone, without a trace, this book provides a complete, step-by-step guide to help you hide your assets, get away, and stay hidden for good.
Reviews
It’s not often that a book truly grabs me and begs to be read. I find plenty of books that are fascinating but when I came across, “How to Hide: A Practical Guide to Vanishing and Taking Your Assets with You”, my curiosity got the best of me and I just had to read it. While I’d never considered disappearing, I found the premise absolutely intriguing. Even if you are perfectly happy with your life the way it is, I guarantee you’ll take a second glance at this book.
“How to Hide” is essentially a how-to guide for completely leaving your current life behind and going somewhere else to start all over. Author David Wilkening gives plenty of potential reasons some may feel this is their only course of action – divorce, abuse, witnessing a crime and feeling unsafe or vulnerable, etc. From the very beginning, Wilkening takes the responsible route with a number of disclaimers. He notes several times that the steps in the book are not for those looking to commit illegal acts or trying to get out of paying their bills. He further discusses the negative effects a disappearance might have on those left behind. In fact, the first 34 pages are dedicated to these disclaimers, possible repercussions with jilted loved ones, and the overall seriousness of disappearing. He makes it crystal clear that hiding is not a subject to be taken lightly.
After reading “How to Hide” I realized it wasn’t exactly what I thought it would be, specifically with regard to ‘assets’. I define ‘assets’ as anything of value – cars, boats, homes, investment accounts, etc. So ‘taking your assets with you’ by this definition would mean a way to maintain ownership of these items when disappearing. However, the advice given in the book said to sell everything and take only what you can fit in your car or on your person – hardly feasible if you have a large amount of ‘assets’. Upon finishing, I concluded that ‘assets’ for the purpose of this book meant ‘cash’. Wilkening does give a thorough amount of information on off-shore bank accounts but this is hardly practical for a majority of readers that aren’t looking to hide, much less those that are. While it’s definitely an option, his focused audience – the bankrupt, the divorced, and the abused – most likely cannot use this information in their respective realities.
“How to Hide: A Practical Guide to Vanishing and Taking Your Assets with You” is still an interesting read, written in a clear and concise style for those truly needing to disappear and start over. While there are enough editing errors to warrant mention, they did not deter from the book’s overall impact. The book is otherwise well organized and researched and David Wilkening does a fine job presenting the information at a level all readers can understand and apply.
Reviewed on 07/28/2011 by ReviewTheBook.com Member Vicki Landes
