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You can't be innocent…the computer found you guilty.

Your bank or broker will never tell you, but every transaction you conduct through a US bank or broker--deposits, withdrawals, credit card, currency conversion –creates a secret financial profile of YOU.

The USA PATRIOT Act and similar laws actually require banks, brokers, car dealerships, jewelers, and many other types of businesses to spy on you. And none of these businesses are allowed to tell you they're doing it.

If the computer software these businesses MUST use to spy on you triggers a "guilty account" alert, you'll never know until your assets are frozen or confiscated. The law makes it a crime to tell you if you're under suspicion.

One mistake—withdrawing too much cash, writing a check to the "wrong" person, etc.—and you could be the next victim.

Could your seemingly innocent account activity actually indicate that you’re laundering money? Or even worse, that you're a terrorist?

The answer, sadly, is "yes." But you CAN fight back… it's perfectly legal to create international "lifeboats" of wealth and privacy that are practically invulnerable to snooping or confiscation. And The Lifeboat Strategy shows you exactly what you need to do to counter today's threats to wealth and privacy.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn in this book:

How you've lost your "right to privacy":

• 13 types of public records-available to anyone-that can be used to steal your identity
• Your "right to silence" is much narrower than you might think
• Five ways businesses and the government use "data mining" to learn about your interests, sources of income and lifestyle
• How "mail covers" strip away the privacy of first class mail
• The 10 most important electronic eavesdropping threats
• Your telephone dialing records have almost zero legal protection
• The giant hole in "caller ID blocking"
• The secret global network that monitors all international telecommunications

When the United States became a nation 230 years ago, only three federal criminal statutes existed. You could be punished for smuggling, piracy, or treason. But today, more than 3,000 federal criminal statutes exist, including nearly 400 offenses for which your property can be seized without a criminal conviction. Are you unknowingly violating any of them?

• Do you fit the definition of a "terrorist?"
• Tax avoidance vs. tax evasion-how to tell the difference
• Six ways government agencies can seize property, without convicting you of a crime
• If you fit any of these 40 "profiles," your assets can be seized
• Are you a "racketeer?" If you've ever made this simple mistake, you probably are
• Withdrawing lawful cash from your own bank account can land you in jail
• Emergency powers that permit the government to freeze your assets, close securities markets and more

How to preserve privacy and wealth:

• Seven legitimate ways individuals and businesses use offshore centers
• The single most important strategy to maintain privacy
• Two vital precautions to avoid lawsuits
• 23 strategies to prevent identity theft
• What to do if police want to search you, your vehicle or your home
• When to use cash, and how to avoid looking like a "money launderer"
• 10 ways to preserve postal privacy
• Six tactics for private phone service
• How to obtain insurance privately
• Your private driver's license
• Eight ways to achieve "residential anonymity"
• 22 tactics to audit-proof your tax return
• Nine tips for private banking
• The best private tangible investments
• Five hiding places for your valuables
• The state with the strongest attorney-client privilege laws
• An ideal business for privacy seekers
• 19 ways trusts protect privacy and wealth
• Using corporations, limited liability companies and other business entities
• Three types of international bank accounts-which one is right for you?
• An anonymous safety deposit box
• How to move money privately
• How to invest internationally in your IRA or pension plan
• U.S. laws for foreign asset reporting-and three strategies to legally avoid them
• Using offshore insurance policies for privacy, asset protection and tax avoidance
• Offshore trusts: unsurpassed for asset protection
• How to structure offshore businesses to legally defer profits from U.S. taxes
• The nine best jurisdictions for investing and doing business offshore
• Six strategies to avoid offshore scams

The Lifeboat Strategy (3d Ed. 2007, 341 pg., US$95) (Interim Update 2009) ISBN 978-1-891266-31-7 (e-book, PDF). ISBN 978-1-891266-30-0 (printed edition, perfect bound).

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