How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace 1st Edition

by Frank Ahearn (Author), Eileen Horan (Author)

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How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who’s ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing—whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence.

Written by the world’s leading experts on finding people and helping people avoid being found, How to Disappear covers everything from tools for disappearing to discovering and eliminating the nearly invisible tracks and clues we tend to leave wherever we go. Learn the three keys to disappearing, all about your electronic footprints, the dangers and opportunities of social networking sites, and how to disappear from a stalker.

Frank Ahearn and Eileen Horan provide field-tested methods for maintaining privacy, as well as tactics and strategies for protecting personal information and preventing identity theft. They explain and illustrate key tactics such as misinformation (destroying all the data known about you); disinformation (creating fake trails); and, finally, reformation—the act of getting you from point A to point B without leaving clues.

Ahearn illustrates every step with real-life stories of his fascinating career, from undercover work to nab thieving department store employees to a stint as a private investigator; and, later, as a career “skip tracer” who finds people who don’t want to be found. In 1997, when news broke of President Bill Clinton’s dalliance with a White House intern, Ahearn was hired to find her. When Oscar statuettes were stolen in Beverly Hills, Ahearn pinpointed a principal in the caper to help solve the case. When Russell Crowe threw a telephone at a hotel clerk in 2005, Ahearn located the victim and hid him from the media.

An indispensable resource not just for those determined to become utterly anonymous, but also for just about anyone in the brave new world of on-line information, How to Disappear sums up Ahearn’s dual philosophy: Don’t break the law, but know how to protect yourself.

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“It may shock the hell out of you. It did me…. I couldn't put this book down, finding out all of the ways anyone could get their hands on information about any of us. You're more vulnerable than you may think.” - Tammy Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

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Frank M. Ahearn built his first career by finding people who didn’t want to be found—from philandering celebrities to a certain White House intern (Monica Lewinsky) before anybody had heard of her, as well as countless cheaters, frauds, and bad guys. Using the “skip tracer” techniques he developed in the process, Ahearn embarked on a second career counseling those who wanted not to be found. If you’ve ever fantasized about disappearing—literally dropping out of sight or just eliminating the traceable evidence of your existence—How to Disappear is your guide.

In a world-wise, straight-talking, wryly humorous narrative, Ahearn provides field-tested tips, tools, and techniques for maintaining privacy, as well as strategies for protecting personal information and preventing identity theft. You’ll learn key tactics such as misinformation (destroying all the data known about you), disinformation (creating fake trails), and reformation (getting where you want to be without leaving clues). Throughout, Ahearn shares real-life stories of his fascinating career—from
nabbing adulterous celebrities to helping abuse victims find safety.

An indispensable resource not just for those determined to be anonymous, but for almost anyone in the brave new world of online information, How to Disappear sums up Ahearn’s dual philosophy: Don’t break the law, but know how to protect yourself.

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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Lyons Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599219778
ISBN-13: 978-1599219776
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 7.8 inches
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Eric Pierce

I Am GHOST!

August 1, 2018

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I (I'm in my mid 50's) was tired of the mental stress created by my immature adult (29 and 31) children and equally immature 40 and 50 year old siblings and THEIR children. Exhausted at their incisive emotional and financial mooching (despite the fact I live living two states away), I decided to give this book a try.

The book outlines how to 'disappear" in plain slight, cover your tracks, and the consequences. All the methods recommended are ethical, explained in detail, and may require some additional spending. An informative and humorous read, I decided to employ the tactics outlined and it worked for me! I now live in relative peace and quiet, free of beggars, nagging, and people who want to dump their "garbage" in my life. Well worth the investment.

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June 9, 2018

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Personally disappearing is a complicated and risky venture. If your not a perfectionist and are not morally flexible disappearing completely may be next to impossible. With that said there are people that do it everyday, but it takes more work (a lot more work) then just being part of the system. Simply, living a correct legal life is the easier option. In the event of an emergency using this book as a resource and practicing the methods will prove useful. I would recommend further reading from multiple sources and also practicing simulated stress drills to be successful.

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Kevin Tumlinson

I swear this was for author research

February 25, 2018

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I’d be breaking one fo the author’s rules right now, if I were trying to disappear. But I’m staying put, and this book was a resource for the thriller novels I write. As an author, I found this to be an invaluable guide to what it would take to disappear.

As a reader, I just enjoyed the thrill of the idea, that one could start over with a new life and a fresh start. With the right planning.

The author is kind of a shady character, honestly,with some passes at being “a good guy at heart.” He’s open enough about committing numerous illegal acts, about troubles with both US and foreign governments, and about doing his work on behalf of criminal organizations like the mob. All that said, his insight into this world is sharp and at times hilarious.

I can’t vouch for whether the information herein can actually help you disappear, but it largely appears to be a common sense approach to protecting your privacy, at one end of the spectrum, and erasing your tracks entirely on the other end.

I highly recommend this book for authors, for privacy enthusiasts, and for the chronically paranoid. Just don’t buy it with a credit card.

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DianeBeckwith

Ahearn gives wonderful answers for eliminating connections from previous relationships

December 10, 2014

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Depending on your 'real' purpose for purchasing/reading this book - Mr. Ahearn gives wonderful answers for eliminating connections from previous relationships, be they personal or due to a change in job. Many of his insights are just 'good practice' for protecting your identity - especially around the holidays, when everyone seems to be on the 'plastic' side of the economy and worried about who knows what - spending only cash seems to be the way to go. My family has toyed with 'going off the grid' but for other reasons . . . it's that whole 'big brother is watching' scenario that gets to us. Very informative and enjoyable read.

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Matt P.

A Bit Out Of Date, but the accounts are enthralling, and some techniques will still work

May 1, 2014

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While most of the social engineering discussed in this book is moot by now as things have changed, or as privacy has become more the focus of many companies, a large faction of them would probably still work, especially with smaller businesses and other people who are more likely to have paper records or weak databases, lacking the ability to really probe someone.

Google alone is probably enough to defeat some of them, if the people you're attempting to talk to have common sense.

Either way, I enjoyed the "skip tracer" stories from the past more than the techniques themselves, though I did enjoy both.

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October 4, 2014

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Although I don't plan on disappearing anytime soon,the title was interesting enough for me to add this to my Kindle.The process to disappear completely is quite extensive if you follow the author's advice.Obviously the older you are the more difficult it becomes to erase your whole life because your life trail has become so extensive,but I really feel that if you follow this book step by step it could be achieved albeit with a ton of work.Nonetheless this was a good read and it does make you wonder exactly how much it would take to pull it off.A good book and I feel that I did add some knowledge to my 62 year old brain.

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Kat

Is this a look at the other side?

November 14, 2014

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Gives you a look at the other side - not so much a "here's what I need to do" book but more of a "look at the possibilities" book and do people's think processes really work like this. Makes you stop and wonder at the changes in the way we perceive our "reality"? Hard to look back at our way of living and then look forward to these realities - Guess it's better to know about all the possibilities in this book than not know but somehow it doesn't reassure me that someone might actually "need" this book.

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August 31, 2015

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Frankly its the same info as authors other books...alot of it is common sense.i didn't find it informative at all..in fact I read half of it and skimmed the rest reluctantly.save your money.

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