Anonymous bank account

[italkcash]

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.

[id62000]

True. But there do exists a few online sites that offer bank accounts using just another payment processor's account for verification. This comes to as close to anonymous as anonymous can get.
The features are similar to this:
http://www.italkcash.com/forum/credi...eap-price.html
But as to if its trustable or not, its not easy to find out, as even recommended or +vely reviewed sites have secret bad reputations in some cases.

[italkcash]

If you want a truly anonymous bank account solution the easiest way is to have a law office sign as beneficiary on the account and have them send you the login details. But few would do that as they would be liable for whatever the account was used for, without proof that anyone else would use the account.

Another solution would be to obtain a different citizenship and change the name in the respective country, but thats a bit to much overkill again.

[indieover]

it is really impossible to have an anonymous bank account. as you have said that anon ymous bank account does not really mean that they don't know your details and information. it is really not advisable to use a proxy who will going to open a bank account for us so that we will be remain anonymous.

[id62000]

I think even that has its advantages. Its similar to seeing a "number blocked" in your Caller ID of your phone. The receiver doesn't know who they're dealing with, but you're dealing with them anyway. But the call is not 100% untraceable. It provides privacy to some extent.

[mandiees]

I do not think there is anything that is truly anonymous in today's global economy. I understand it is the intention of the Swiss bank to provide anonymity to its customers, but someone, somewhere down the line is keeping track of everything going in and out of there.

[Offshore]

For a bank account at a real bank, the bank always has to know the person who is the signator on the account. Be it the real owner or a representative. That the bank gives up the information to any probing country or authority is a different matter. The Swiss have an agreement now with Uncle Sam to share information, so scratch that one. The only 2 countries who have laws against this is Singapore and Panama. Most "tax heavens" in the Caribbean are now following the EU directives. i.e. Cayman Islands.

Here are a few offshore banks that open accounts online:
Vanau
ANZ Vanuatu - Account Opening

HSBC Offshore | Bank accounts, Savings, Investments, Premier Banking, Expat advice abroad

Citibank Rupee account
https://www.online.citibank.co.in/po...er.jsp?TID=t2&

Parex Latvia
Parex banka

Lloyd´s UK Corporate Account
How to apply for a business account

HSBC Singapore
all applications are subject to the Bank's approval and
are processed upon FULL submission. You may visit any HSBC branch in your
country to have the documents authenticated and verified by the staff.

GIRObank GIRObank Curacao

http://www.rietumu.lv/home.htm

http://www.providentbelize.com/open_...n_account.html Belize

DGM Bank & Trust Inc. Barbados

[DianaR]

Originally Posted by indieover

it is really impossible to have an anonymous bank account. as you have said that anon ymous bank account does not really mean that they don't know your details and information. it is really not advisable to use a proxy who will going to open a bank account for us so that we will be remain anonymous.

With the economic downturn, I bet we see fewer tax shelters available for numbered accounts, even with UBS. Add to the economic woes the need to track where money goes, to avoid funding terrorist organizations, and the only way you will be able to "hide" money will be to keep it under your mattress.

[Offshore]

Originally Posted by DianaR

to avoid funding terrorist organizations,

I like this one the best from the US press. If you notice every time a major drug dealer and terrorist group fall, they have banking where? In the US. Since it is easier to open an account in the US than in any "tax shelter country"
There has been recent big drug lords jailed in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. they all had their finances based guess where.

***Throughout the morning hours of May 16, 2006, members of the Rayo-Montano organization were awakened with the execution of arrest and search warrants by international, federal, state and local law enforcement officers. Twenty-one of the 32 Miami defendants were arrested. In addition, $850,000 in cash and bank accounts in Miami,
News from DEA, Domestic Field Divisions, Miami News Releases, 05/17/06

[digirun]

Nominee service of Latvian bank accounts
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