How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace

by Frank M. Ahearn & Eileen C. Horan

Written by the world’s leading experts on finding people and helping people avoid being found, Frank M. Ahearn & Eileen C. Horan provide the authoritative and comprehensive guide for those who seek to protect their privacy. This book is for anyone who has entertained the fantasy of disappearing—whether by actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence.

Field-Tested Methods for Anonymity

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. Readers will learn the three keys to disappearing, all about electronic footprints, the dangers and opportunities of social networking sites, and how to disappear from a stalker.

Ahearn and Horan provide field-tested methods for maintaining privacy, as well as tactics and strategies for protecting personal information and preventing identity theft.

They explain key tactics such as:

• Misinformation: Destroying all the data known about you.
• Disinformation: Creating fake trails.
• Reformation: The act of getting you from point A to point B without leaving clues.

Real-Life Expertise from Frank M. Ahearn

Frank Ahearn built his first career as a "skip tracer" by finding people who didn't want to be found. He illustrates every step with real-life stories from his fascinating career.

Ahearn's high-profile work includes:

• Being hired to find a White House intern (Monica Lewinsky) in 1997 before anybody had heard of her.
• Locating the victim and hiding him from the media after Russell Crowe threw a telephone at a hotel clerk in 2005.
• Pinpointing a principal in the caper to help solve the case when Oscar statuettes were stolen in Beverly Hills.
• Undercover work to nab thieving department store employees.

An indispensable resource for those determined to be anonymous, the book sums up Ahearn’s dual philosophy: Don’t break the law, but know how to protect yourself.

Product Details

• Title: How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish Without a Trace
• Authors: Frank M. Ahearn & Eileen C. Horan
• Format: Hardcover (1st Edition)
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• ISBN-13: 9781599219776
• ISBN-10: 1599219778