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"You can create disinformation," explains Ahearn, who co-authored the book "How to Disappear." "You do your real planning on a burner phone that you keep in a storage unit. But on your accessible computer, you look up real estate, banking and utility companies in, say, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and San Francisco.

"Then you go somewhere completely different. Private detectives hired to find you have to look in all those cities. That makes it expensive."

"You want to go to another state, not use your name, not use your Social Security number, not drive a car there."

"You need to be more off the grid. You stay away from touristy places. You don't hang out with people who use mobile phones to take pictures. And you stay away from places like Starbucks where you can wind up in the background of someone's selfie," he said.

"The first question is about how they will earn money; if they are handy and can be paid in cash, that's good," he said.

"Then I tell them to keep an office [for planning] and a second one in case that doesn't work out. Then I ask them where they want to live and how they will exist. They can't become party animals and hang out in bars. And before all of that, they have to sell their house and car, put their money into pre-paid credit cards. The more you have, the more time consuming it is."

https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/ever-wanted-to-disappear-there-are-people-who-can-help-but-its-not-as-easy-as-you-may-think/