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The first known safe house in history was one used by two Israelite spies. They hid themselves in the house of Rahab, a prostitute in Jericho. (Joshua 1:21 – 2:24)

The term “safe house” is often seen in spy novels and in movies such as “Mission Impossible.” However, a safe house can be used by anyone, including you and me. If you have any money to invest, now is a great time to buy a vacation-type property that can serve not only as a weekend retreat but as a safe house for unexpected dangers in the future. (I currently own more such safe houses than I need. If any of you readers might be interested, I have one available which includes 1000 feet of river frontage and a private island in Washington’s Skagit River.)

The ideal safe house will be owned by a New Mexico LLC with a PO Box address in a faraway state. Nothing, nothing should connect you to this property. Even if you never need it yourself, perhaps a brother, sister, son or daughter may someday be able to use it as a refuge while they sort out a temporary emergency.

Ten years from now, who knows what prices vacation properties may bring? Especially if your safe house is on an island or on the bank of a scenic river.

However, if you prefer not to purchase property at the present time, low-cost alternatives are available. These are dealt with in my e-book OFF THE GRID: Living or traveling in a van, truck, or converted cargo trailer.

Labels: New Mexico LLCs, riverfront property, safe house, safe houses, secret hideaway, vacation property

The “owner” will be invisible because he or she does not exist.

Unless fraud is involved, I believe this practice to be entirely legal. Let’s suppose your name is Anita B. Chavez, Golda A.Goldstein, or Bashiyra Binte Nur Um Lifti. You resolve to start a business via the Internet, and you
decide that, in the particular fi eld you have chosen, a generic-type man’s name would look better.

First, choose a three-word business name with the same initials as yours. Then invent a man’s name with the same initials. For example:

. . . . . Your actual name: Anita B. Chavez
. . . . . Bank account name: A. B. Chavez
. . . . . Business name: Awesome Birthday Cards
. . . . . “Owner” name: Albert B. Caldwell
. . . . . Checks made out to: A.B.C.

The opposite is true, of course, if you are a man who wishes to sell merchandise that will appeal to women. Choose a woman’s name that will seem best to go with the product.

The above information is taken verbatim from SKIP COLLEGE: Go into business for yourself. This e-book has many more tips and tricks for those are--or hope to be--self-employed.

Labels: anonymous bank account, business name, go into business, nom de plume, pen name, skip college

That was the question that confronted a young woman in Mount Vernon, Washington on January 12, 2010. I’ll refer to her as Maria, which is not her real name.

She and her 2-year-old daughter had been watching the penguin cartoon “Happy Feet” when she heard a knock on the front window. She went to the window, pulled the blinds aside, saw a police badge being shown, and heard a man yell "POLICE! OPEN THE DOOR!"

Maria, frightened, opened the door. Two men in ski masks pushed their way in. One man grabbed the child and the other man pushed Maria onto the couch.

Did rape and murder then follow?

That such was not the case was due solely to what her ex-husband had taught Titan, the family pit bull, to do—to attack on command. Maria screamed the command. The man on top of Maria started to pull a gun but not before Titan raced out of a back bedroom and sunk his teeth into the man’s left leg. Both men then fled, with the dog close behind them.

In hindsight, Maria should never have opened the door to police impersonators, but how was she to know that they were fake police?

CONCLUSION:

In such a situation, never open the door. Instead, call 911. If the men are the real police, rather than impersonators, the 911 operator can confirm that. And if they are not the police, a patrol car can be sent out to catch them.

Not everyone keeps a pit bull in the back bedroom, trained to attack on command.

Labels: fake police, imitation police, police impersonators

After returning to the United States, I contacted John—an Officer with US Customs & Border Protection on Minnesota’s northern border. Some of my questions concerned the viewpoint from the Canadian side so he was kind enough to call some of his acquaintances on the far side of the border.

The questions that follow are about my nerve-wracking entry into British Columbia from Blaine, Washington.

1. When my license plate was photographed, did their computer show the name my pickup is registered in?

Every license plate is read and the vehicle’s crossing is logged each time you cross. However, the registration information is generated on only about 10% of vehicles at MOST. Myself and a few of the officers I work with have asked why this is the case and we've been told it has to do with the county/state the vehicle is registered in. Some counties report the registration information, some don't. From what I've seen, it's VERY hit-or-miss with what places do and what places don't. There's really no rhyme or reason to it.

2. Did the Canadians keep a copy of the hard drives on both my laptops, along with the files on my flash drives?

According to policy, no copy of the hard drive is allowed to be made. BSI (border search of information) is VERY regulated and we are only allowed to look at what is on the PC's, that's it. If something was to be found (i.e. child pornography, etc), then a case would be opened on you and all related evidence (the laptop in this case) would be seized and turned over to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) for prosecution. That would be the only time a copy would be kept and that copy would be the actual PC. In short, no, no copies are ever made. [John refers primarily to US policy here, but it appears to be similar in Canada as long as all passwords are freely given and as long as nothing incriminating is found.]

3. Will the Canadians report a search like this to US Customs so one can be flagged when crossing back into the States?

No, Canada and the US do not communicate anything. There's a lot of red tape keeping us very separate from Canada Customs. The only time information might be shared is when an Officer on the Canadian side might call a personal friend on the US side to just give them a "friendly" tip. This is pretty rare and in my experience, only done when the person crossing is a real pain in the butt and just plain obnoxious. Nothing formal is ever exchanged unless done by a designated intelligence officer, in which case you would probably know because you've done something wrong (i.e., someone called in a tip that you were smuggling drugs back and forth, etc.)

The above answers eased my worries about what had happened while my computers and flash drives were out of my sight, but now I had more questions about border crossings in general:

LICENSE PLATE: When I come into the US from Canada, does your computer show how many times this car has come through? If so, over what period of time?

Yes, but only if the Officer decides to actually look at that information; it isn't presented unless solicited by him/her. As for the time period, sorry to tell you but it's forever. From the first day records started being taken until now and so on. I've seen crossing histories (which DO include international flights) as old as 20 years or so.

PASSPORT: Even though I travel with different vehicles, will the computer show how many times I have personally come through?

Yes, but just as with your vehicles, the information has to be solicited by the Officer in order to be viewed (which only takes a matter of seconds). As for the crossing history, the same applies here just as it does with vehicles... it's forever.

LIARS: On page 253 of HTBI, I mention an inspector who claimed he could spot a liar in 5 seconds. Was that hyperbole? What's your opinion on old-timers being able to spot a liar? (I would think that a few get through.)

This one is an interesting question. In short, yes, it's completely possible. After having worked at many ports of entry myself and having been in the service for a few years now I am able to pick out a lie pretty quickly. I talk to probably 150 people a day on average so over time it's almost impossible to not pick up a thing or two when someone's lying. Not to say I'm a 100% every time because I know that would just be foolish to think. Of all the Officers I've worked with, probably 50% of them (that being the percentage of them that actually care about what they're doing and are half-way serious about their job) could probably pick out a lie easily within the first 2 or 3 questions with no problem at all. I've even worked with a few guys that could tell you whether a person was admissible to the US or not (were criminals, etc) and would lie about it while that person was still sitting two cars back... and those Officers were almost always on the dot! Even if someone's lie isn't discovered within the first few seconds, if a guy asks enough questions the liar’s going to run out of answers eventually.

CARRYING CASH: I often travel with up to five thousand dollars in cash. Might this in itself raise any red flags?

As for leaving the country with cash, that's more reliant upon the location and what the "norm" is I would say. Where I am, I would think nothing of it nor would any of the Officers I work with, it's just too common. Even cash in the 10's of thousands really isn't a big deal. We have tons of farmers here and enough dual-citizens that worrying about lots of cash isn't an issue because it's just too common a thing. That said, anytime cash or any other "negotiable monetary instrument" in excess of $10k enters or leaves the country it has to be reported and recorded. That would warrant a secondary exam but only due to the paper work involved. N
othing more unless foul play is suspected.

At a larger or more "city-oriented" Port, the cash might be more of a concern, especially the closer to British Columbia you get. British Columbia is ground zero for the best marijuana to ever grace this earth some would say. I would venture to bet that the first thought to cross the mind of an Officer at the port of Blaine, WA (for example) would be that the cash was going to be used for purchasing pot, especially if that amount of cash isn't transported often enough to make it "normal" for that area.

To answer your question in short, though, no, someone wouldn't get sent to secondary based on that quantity of cash alone. The cash in conjunction to something else might ring a bell in an Officers mind whereas one of the two items alone might not have.

PASSWORDS: What would happen if I had a laptop with me and I refused to give the password? Would I be arrested? Would my name be flagged for any future visit?

I spoke to Canadian Customs tonight. They told me that if someone was to refuse to turn over passwords then the computer would just be seized and sent to Ottawa to be dealt with by a technician. If nothing was found after the technician unlocked it the PC would be sent back to the owner.

As for the flagging of the traveler, that would be completely up to the Officer at the time of the initial secondary inspection. The lady I spoke with tonight said that she might log something like that but as for flagging the traveler for the next time they came into Canada, no, she wouldn't do that unless there was a huge need to have it done. It isn't routine.
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Okay, readers, that’s it for now on Canadian border problems. However, if you have any experiences to relate, by all means post them here as a comment.

NEXT WEEK: What should a young woman do when police bang on her window and scream for her to open the door? (A true horror story that just happened in western Washington!)

Labels: Border controls, Canadian border crossings, Crossing the border with a laptop, US Customs

(If you have not already done so, first read the January 4, 2010 entry.)

The woman who questioned me at the U.S. border was actually pleasant. What a big surprise that was! No questions whatsoever about laptops, storage devices, or if I had been near any small children. Instead, just the usual questions about where had I been and what was I bringing back with me. Then:

OFFICER: “How much money are you carrying?

ME: “Between four and five thousand dollars.”

OFFICER: “Why so much?”

ME: “ I was going to make a deposit in Port Alberni but I missed seeing the bank when I came thorough. It wasn’t all that urgent anyway and I was in a hurry to catch the noon ferry at Duke Point so I didn’t turn back.”

OFFICER: “Why do you have a bank account in Canada?”

ME: “I opened it years back, when I was having some printing done with Friesens in Manitoba. And by the way,” I said with a smile, while drawing my hand across my throat, “there’s no money to be made in self-publishing!”

The kind lady smiled and waved me on through.

Three comments about carrying cash into Canada:

1. It appears to be permissible to carry a substantial amount of cash, as long as the value is under $10,000 Canadian.

2. Tell the truth about which bank you will be visiting—specific details will give the officer confidence that what you say is true.

3. Decide beforehand how to explain why you have such an account. This may be because you often vacation in Canada, or because you think Obama is on such a wild spending spree that you expect the American dollar to fall below par with the Canadian dollar within the next year or two.

But meanwhile, what about the fact that the Canadians went through my laptops? Did they keep copies of my files? If I ever return to Canada, will they know I’ve been there before? If I use the same pickup, will that show up as having been in Canada before?

I posed those questions, and more, to a good friend who works with US Customs and Immigration at a border crossing in Minnesota. If you ever wondered what happens when you pull up at the border and hand over your passport, be sure to read next Monday’s blog:

Canadian borders crossings (Part III). Your questions answered!

Labels: Canadian bank accounts, Canadian border crossings, Canadian border questions, carrying cash into Canada

I’ve entered Canada many times, always with two laptops, and never a problem until December 26th. At the Canadian border crossing (Blaine, Washington), a young Asian woman scowled at me in response to every answer I gave to her questions, especially when I told her I have never been arrested. (Apparently she thought there are only two kinds of travelers, those who admit they’ve been arrested, and those who lie about it.) I was told to park my pickup and enter the building—the dreaded “secondary inspection.” What followed was one the most miserable experiences I’ve had in recent memory.

“Give me your keys,” said an older, heavy-set officer, “and then sit over there.” From where I sat, my pickup was not visible. Eventually I was called back to the counter and the questions began.

“Why do you carry TWO laptops? Why are your keys connected to a Kubotan? How many flash drives do you have with you? Why doesn’t your wife travel with you? Are you going to be around any young children? What’s the name of the man you plan to meet in Ucluelet? Have you ever met him? No? Then how did you know about him? Why do you carry a Bible and some religious magazines, when you also carry two bottles of wine? (I quoted some pro-wine Scriptures at this point, which put an end to that line of questioning.)

In days gone by, I survived two interrogations by Generalissimo Franco’s Secret Police but this session with Canadian Customs and Immigration was even more depressing because I knew they were going to go through hundreds of my supposedly private files.

My Asus PC Eee, my backup Vaio, and the two flash drives require passwords. I was forced to reveal them. Then both the man and the young woman disappeared into a back room with my computers and flash drives and left me sitting out there alone with nothing to read and nothing to look at, for 55 minutes. That was the worst part.

True, I keep client lists, tax returns, confidential letters, and most of my pictures on a secure laptop at home that is never connected to the Internet and never leaves home. Nevertheless, there were hundreds if not thousands of files on those laptops and flash drives. Was this going to ruin all the work I’ve put into keeping my private affairs private? My mouth went painfully dry.

Finally, the man reappeared. He handed me the computers and flash drives and allowed me to leave. No “Sorry to bother you,” much less “Welcome to Canada.” But had they copied both hard drives? Would the U.S. Customs and Immigration be notified to check me out when I returned? I carried $4,000 in cash, stuffed inside a glove in the tool compartment below the rear seats. They hadn’t mentioned the money. Had they not found it, or had they taken it? If so, what recourse would I possibly have? I feared I was about to kiss four big ones goodbye.

I had planned to work on some new chapters of a book tentatively titled “How to Hide Your Identity and Protect Your Privacy (International edition)” but what if my hard drive was going to be copied again at the U.S. border? So far, the Canadians at the border crossing had failed to connect me to my Web site or my HTBI book (which I did NOT have with me). Result: I did no writing whatsoever and cut my trip short.

If you plan a Canadian border crossing with a laptop, keep this information in mind:

1. Carry only a “clean” notebook or laptop with you.
2. Answer every question truthfully.
3. Be prepared to give up all your passwords.

Or … leave your computer at home.

Or … cancel your trip.

A surprise was waiting for me when I returned to the ‘Promised Land’ but I’ll leave that information for next week’s blog. Stay tuned for Part II of Canadian Border Crossing problems!

Labels: canadian border crossing problems, Canadian Customs and Immigration, crossing the Canadian border, danger bringing a laptop into Canada

A common complaint from readers of How to Be Invisible is that when they move to a new location, neighbors start asking them their name and where they work.

1. Alter your name to hide your identity

Keep your first name but change your last name just enough so the neighbors cannot Google you. It’s best if the name rhymes so that if a neighbor later learns your true identity, you can explain that he may have misunderstood when you previously gave him your name.

Examples: Change Benson to Jensen, Hernandez to Fernandez, Martin to Barton, Ryan to Brian, Crosby to Cosby, Dawson to Lawson, and O’Reilly to Reilly or Smiley.

If that doesn’t work, perhaps you can use your middle name as your last name. This works well with using a passport as ID because the first and middle names are on the same line, with the last name below. More than once I’ve had persons glance at my passport and think my middle name was my last name.

2. Be vague about where you work to hide your identity.

The best choice here is to indicate you work for yourself in some obscure niche that no one will question further. However, if you leave and return each day at a given time, you may need to give a specific answer. I have a friend who says he works for the IRS. That usually ends any questions about his job.

Labels: hide my identity, hide name, hide your identity, new name, pen name

There are many reasons why you might wish to change your name but the three main reasons are privacy, privacy and privacy.

One example is when you have an unusual first or last name. Even worse is when both names are unusual. If you run your first and last names on Google and come up with only one or two persons besides you, you can be tracked down in a heartbeat.

Another example is when you have a somewhat more common name but when combined with a city and state, unfavorable references about you will come up on the computer screen.

The easiest way to change your name is to just do it, without benefit of a legal name change. However, if you need to have your name change show up on your passport and your driver’s license, then a legal name change will be necessary. My suggestion is to pick four common names. Where possible, the second and third names should be names that are used both as first names and as surnames. Example:

James Martin Lee Williams.

Then, in addition to using Williams as a last name, you might also sometimes list yourself as James Martin, James Lee, Martin Lee, or even James M. Lee.

(The above information about changing your name is taken in part from How to be Invisible, Chapter 9, “Your Alternate Names and Signatures.”)

Labels: change my bame, change your name, legal name change, use another name

The fact that Tiger Woods was even using his normal cell phone (that his wife had access to) was beyond dumb, it was stupidity personified—as was the apparent serial adultery.

Lesson learned: The fact that you are brilliant in one field does not mean you are playing with a full deck in a different field. In the case of Tiger Woods, a cell phone address list was his downfall. But in another case—this one from Anacortes, Washington—forgetfulness was what brought down Garrison Chase Colby, 39, who professed to be a devout Mormon.

He forgot to go through the pockets of his suit before he sent it to the cleaners. In that suit was his wallet.

According to the December 11, 2009 edition of the Skagit Valley Herald, “An employee at the cleaners opened the wallet and discovered a handful of identification cards. All had different names but all had the same photo—[Colby]. She called the police.”

Colby now sits in jail, facing numerous charged related to his past. As for the famous golfer, he does not face jail time but Tiger Woods’ cell phone records do remind us, at the very least, not to allow any secret telephone numbers to be in our every-day cell phones. And Garrison Chase Colby’s arrest reminds us that it is always best to go through the pockets before sending clothing to the cleaners.

Labels: cell phone records, dry cleaners, Garrison Colby, pockets, Tiger Woods cell phone

The absolute best way to hide your identity and protect your privacy is to use a nominee. A nominee is someone who acts on your behalf. For example:

1. To hide your identity with a bank, you have nominee Sally open a bank account under her own name, using her SSN but giving the bank your ghost address along with an untraceable phone number. She then signs a stack of checks and gives them all to you. From that moment on, you have total control of the bank account and can use it to mail in deposits and write checks. In fact, the bank can be in some state across the country from where you really live.

2. To hide your identity when renting a storage unit, you have nominee Ricardo rent the unit in the name of a New Mexico LLC. Ricardo signs the contract as owner of the company. He then gives you the key to the unit along with a bill of sale showing he sold the LLC to you. (Date this bill of sale sometime after the rental date.)

3. To hide your identity when ordering cable television, use nominee Pedro when you call in the order. Have Pedro on hand when the installer comes. He will be the one who signs the contract. You will have thus hidden your identity from PIs who often start any search with an informant inside the local cable company!

In my book How to be Invisible, there is a complete chapter on the use of nominees. Other chapters deal with ghost addresses and LLCs from New Mexico. To encourage you to order this book, I am making the following offer, valid until December 31, 2009.

Order a new How to be Invisible book on Amazon.com and send Amazon's e-mail confirmation to me at JJL [at} canaryislandspress.com. I will then send you a free copy of my e-report How to Locate a Trustworthy Nominee.

IN ADDITION, I will also offer you serious discounts on both New Mexico LLCs, and ghost addresses in Canada, Alaska or Spain. These discounts will be valid until December 31, 2009. You may end up saving over $200, and all for the price of a book you should buy anyway, even without the incentives!

If you already have the book, why not order it for a friend? What better gift could you give him or her for less than twenty bucks?

Labels: ghost addresses, hide my identity, hide yor identity, how to be invisible, how to protect your privacy, New Mexico LLCs, nominees

A few days ago I sent out a mass e-mail to those on my privacy list, warning my readers that strip shredders may not be as secure as they thought. This is because some PIs are now hiring retired persons to put the strips together using a special clipboard tool. (My instructions were to never shred just one or two pieces of important paper—these might be fairly easy to reassemble. Better to shred a number of other unimportant sheets as well and then mix the shredded material all up. Dump half in this week’s trash and the other half next week.)

I received some interesting responses. Here’s a dandy from Laurel from Redondo Beach, California:

“My brother-in-law was hired along with a bunch of other people to ‘spy’ on a certain company that was doing ‘backward’ activities. This company was located in a building with other businesses. My brother-in-law law said that his boss leased a suite next door to the ‘suspect’ company, in another name of course, and set up surveillance. His boss also put together a cleaning bid on the entire building for a made-up cleaning company. The bid was so low that it out bid all the other applicants for the job. They were hired! They took out the trash and cleaned EVERY office in the building just so they could collect the trash from that one office. They had the key to the office now!

“They tapped the phones and put microphones all around the office. They collected all the shredding as well as the regular trash … then they pieced together all the
shredding. Yes, they did do this! They had pages and pages and pages of this.
Eventually they had enough evidence to get them shut down and put in jail.

“On another note—my mom and I took our own shredding to the local park and burned it in the barbecues along with charcoal. We would bring hot dogs and roast weenies while putting handfuls of shredding in the fire. We would do this on days when no one would be there. When we were asked by the park worker why there was so much smoke we told him that we had brought some fire wood and that some of it must have been wet or still green…. I eventually bought a fire pit for my back yard and we burned the shredding there, careful to not create too much smoke to alarm the neighbors.

“Another GREAT thing you can do with it is pour water in the shredding bag before throwing it away. You can't piece together soaking wet paper. It turns to mush. You can also throw in your coffee grounds and then some to make sure it discolors and possibly starts to mold. LOL!”

And here’s another response, from Hamlet in Washougal, WA. A warning for us all!

“My mother (bless her soul) once shredded an important medical receipt. Upon discovering her mistake, she took the pieces and, while watching the Larry King show, put the puzzle back together. She was so proud of her work when she finished!”

Labels: cross-cut shredder, privacy, Shredder, strip-shredder, trash

The following quote is from Duncan Long’s book Protect Your Privacy:

“According to the FBI, a Washington, D.C police officer was attempting to extort $10,000 from a married man who had visited a gay bar. The officer had apparently employed a law-enforcement computer system to identify automobile license plates of cars that had been recorded as being outside the bar, and then linked the plates to the names and addresses of the vehicles. He then cross-referenced to see if the men were married, and if they were, he attempted to extort money from them. According to the FBI, the officer threatened to send photos showing the men at the bar to wives and employers if the victims didn’t cough up silence money.”

You may never visit a gay bar but think of the many other dangers of allowing your name (and sometimes even your home address!) to appear on your vehicle’s registration. Just one example: You innocently park in front of a home known to harbor a meth lab. You may get a visit from the police. Or perhaps the home is a so-called safe house for a Muslim terrorist cell. You may get a visit from the FBI. Or suppose the home is that of women who’s being stalked by her insanely jealous ex-husband—you might even get beaten up!

Each of our five vehicles is titled in a separate New Mexico LLC. The address for each New Mexico LLC is in Spain’s Canary Islands. We often lend our vehicles to friends. What if one of these friends would happen to park in front of the wrong home or the wrong bar? As Alfred E. Neuman would say, “What? Me worry?”

Labels: ghost address, license plate, New Mexico LLC, NM LLC, tracing a license plate

No one yet knows if or when Obama will get a bill passed that will require all Americans to have health insurance. If this does come to pass, however, it may be the first step down the slippery slope of the lack of privacy in Europe.

“Here in Europe," says my informant in Zurich, "we have socialized medicine. This is very good when you are sick. But when you wish to hide? It’s not so special. Socialized medicine means that each government agency in your country must track everything about you from where you live to your bank account balances.”

I asked him if it was possible to list some address on the insurance card other than where you live.

“You must prove that your address is being lived in (bedroom, closets with your possessions, kitchen where you eat, etc). This address cannot be a friend’s home because you must furnish a rental agreement and authorities will then make a personal visit to check you out. (A couple of Serbian basketball players Switzerland were expelled from Switzerland for not giving an accurate address.)”

Will these draconian measures eventually reach the shores of North America? I don’t know. But am I worried? As Sarah Palin would say, “You betcha!”

Labels: end of privacy, home address revealed, lack of privacy in Europe, national health insurance, Obama Care, ObamaCcare

The following quote is from Elsy in New York. She sent it to me as a post on the Q&A page of my forum (#6660). This was such an ingenious solution that I am passing it on to readers of this blog.

"I purchased Invisible Money when it first came out. A friend was in trouble with the IRS and could not deposit his money in his own bank until he could work out a payment plan with the IRS.

"In Invisible Money Mr Luna discusses older bank accounts. We brainstormed and came up with several ways to acquire an old bank account. My friend started looking for businesses for sale at dirt cheap prices. He really did not want the business, he wanted the business bank account. He found a one-man lawn service business looking to sell his client list.

"He purchased the business (client list) for approximately $3000. Included in the purchase was the business bank account which was opened in 1966. No social security number attached. Just a tax ID number.

"He sold the business client list for his purchased price minus the bank accounts."

Labels: invisible bank account, nominee for bank account.how to buy a bank account, secret bank account

Be aware of the tricks some rapists and crooks use to get you to open your door.

1. You hear a noise from the water lines, and realize someone has opened the outdoor faucet. Do not go out to turn it off!

2. Loud knocking, followed by "There's been an accident--I need to use your phone!" Call 911.

3. You hear a baby crying, either at the front door or below your bedroom window. This is a recording, designed to get you to come outside. Don't do it! Call the police.

And by the way, if you do not already have a door jammer, pick one up at any major hardware store. Brace the front door whenever you are not using it.

Labels: burglar, door jammer, rapist, robber, stalker, tricks