Privacy Digest

I had thought that if Williams of Costa Rica was a sting, the stuff 
he sells would be better quality.  His advertising brochures look
like they were put together by a thirteen year old who speaks 
English as a second language.

On the other hand, his stuff may be truly representative of the
intellectual level of our opponents  --  (Consider Sternlight)

If this is the case then we have little to fear.


"Captain Bob" writes:
> Worse, at least one report does not exist - and that is the 
> one that would point to most government heat
> if you order it.  Just out of idle curiosity, 
> I had my foreign lawyer order so that was how I found out.

This incident is suggestive of a sting.  I presume this was
what "Captain Bob" intended to imply, though he did not state
the conclusion.  

> While I hate to say it, there is currently to my knowledge no easy turn-key
> one-stop-stop "Where to go to break the law" foreign operators that I would
> trust.  If you want true privacy, carve it out for yourself

Exactly so.

Many people around the world offer services that are convenient
if one wishes to prevent the government from learning about your
financial activities, but they do not advertise "Hey, come to us
to cheat taxes and evade controls" because if they did it would 
diminish their usefulness, both to those of their clients that 
are using them to avoid taxes, and to those of their clients who
use them for other purposes.

By the way, when one wishes to move money out of the country,
I recommend that the money spends a short time in some third
country that has numerous financial transactions with your home
country, friendly relationships with your home government, no 
privacy laws, and is not a tax haven.

Thus moving it to country X does not attract attention, and if
you then move it to country Y (the money laundering haven), country 
X does not care and your home country does not know.

"Wire $20 000 to account such and such in Canada" attracts
little attention.  "Give me 20 000 cash", or "wire 20 000
to the Cayman Islands" attracts much attention.

--

Critias_the_conspirator

Critias:
> Many people around the world offer services that are convenient
> if one wishes to prevent the government from learning about your
> financial activities, but they do not advertise "Hey, come to us
> to cheat taxes and evade controls" because if they did it would 
> diminish their usefulness, both to those of their clients that 
> are using them to avoid taxes, and to those of their clients who
> use them for other purposes.

How does this follow?  I actually makes no sense.  With better advertising
they would have more customers, more volume, lower overhead, and thus
lower prices.  Just like any other business.

I think rather, a tradition of obscurity has built up, because the
offshore havens are based obscure legal legerdemain that requires
stiff legal fees.  If a business catering to the upper middle class
rather than the wealthy were set up, this would require blowing away
a lot of the legal obscurity, which the lawyers and fraudsters (who
take full advantage of the fine print) are loathe to do.

He who dares to cut through the webs of legal bullshit and 
governmental censorship of offshore techniques will upen up a
tremendous market and shake the foundataions of the planet.

N.D. Johnson

The prices they were listing were comparable to shareware.  This looks to
fall under the "if it seems too good (cheap?) to be true, it probably is"
category based on price alone.

-NetSurfer

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