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After several months of unemployment, I landed a job a couple weeks ago otherwise this would be a cakewalk.

1. Pay cash for EVERYTHING.
2. If you must use a PC, use a foreign proxy. (To check in by the rules, etc.)
3. If you must use a phone, keep the battery removed unless required by the rules to check in.
4. Don't frequent places you normally do. (If you play tennis a lot, take up bowling, etc.)
5. Head back-country for some extended camping. Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Minnesota or the Dakotas come to mind.

I don't talk on the phone for anything even remotely private, that's what I do. :-)

Here is the other stuff: http://www.howtobeinvisible.com/

You can't help people who don't want to be helped. As long as their basic wants are sated, most of them are too apathetic to give a shit about anything.

For those of you that do care, an easy and practical guide can be found at this website. The book is also available thru Amazon, and isn't very expensive. Used ones are usually in the $5 range. VERY useful and has been updated for post-9/11.

  Charles

To open a bank account I had to show up in person and give them two forms of ID (DL and Passport in my case). It *is* possible to open an account via a telephone, but you'll have to have photocopies of your IDs notarized and faxed/mailed in.

Use an address of a relative with the same last name or a PO box for the initial correspondence and then put in a "moved, no forwarding address" card. Voila! No address on record. Until they try and mail you something, they'll never know. I had an account with a Credit Union for almost 2 years with them having no address on record (and they knew it). I finally gave them a PO box when they needed to mail me another debit card because my first one had expired.

Check out http://www.howtobeinvisible.com/ for info on how a U.S. Citizen can open a Canadian bank account for even more privacy.

  -Charles

You think that's a list? Try the book How To Be Invisible. The author suggests forming a LLC and buying all of your cars and houses through it, never using your home address (have a ghost address for incoming mail and use a post office drop for outgoing), paying for everything with cash, and never calling a 1-800 number. Try it. He may sound like a nut case, but I guarantee you no one is going to track him down.