Anonymous bank account
The term anonymous bank account probably comes from Swiss banks and their international fame for hiding money. But the truth is different, there is nothing anonymous about having a bank account in Switzerland compared to other countries. The Swiss bank knows exactly who you are, has a copy of your passport and keep as much information about you as possible.
Therefore a true anonymous bank account must be something that nobody knows about, not even the place that opened it in the first place. Information concerning such accounts, known as is restricted to senior bank officers, rather than being accessible to all the employees of a bank. Unfortunately this is all past, numbered accounts does not exist anymore and are forbidden by international law. Banks will not be able to operate the wire system if they offered accounts without proof.
Another option is to obtain a vault inside a Swiss bank such as UBS. Some extremely wealthy people are already having vaults that only holds by them and is even handed out for generations (the access that is).
A numbered bank account today is of little value as most places has incorporated security measures to require information from the bank (or the SWIFT system) of the sender of money. By that it means that there for any account anywhere should be basic information, as account holder and account address. This makes numbered account practically obsolete.
Therefore a truly anonymous account is only possible if you have someone else act as beneficiary (could be a law firm or embassy), but that would require a huge amount of trust or simply a matter of great importance for you to them as person (which would not be anonymous to anyone but the receiver). Another option is to create a new citizenship, but that is expensive and exhausting. There is no need to be this paranoid anyway, a corporation account would cover 99% of everyones needs, the rest are just watching to much James Bond.
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