SECURITY MATTERS

Please read, or re-read, the following sections thoroughly - they contain vital information should you decide to choose OffshoreSimple Inc to 'go offshore' with or not as the case may be. If you do decide to go elsewhere, please, for your own sake, make sure that whoever you do business with takes the same precautions we do!

Security Matters

Despite what many people who 'go offshore' think, it's not just the stability and security of the jurisdiction where their company is registered that is of importance. It is of vital importance to the beneficial owners of offshore companies and trusts that there is stability and security within the formation company they use.

Whilst we do not decry any of our competitors, OffshoreSimple can assure all their clients, existing and prospective, that any of the minimal records we do store (PGP encrypted on optical discs) are kept totally confidential and that it would take a court order to force us to reveal even the location, yet alone the country where those records are stored.

It would then take a further court order within that jurisdiction itself to make us reveal the content of those records.

We have been assured by our lawyers that for such an order to be made, a prima facia case of either money laundering, drug smuggling or terrorism/illegal arms dealing within that jurisdiction itself would have to be proven. Tax cases would not stand a chance!

We should also point out that the computers which hold our web site, our administrative records, our client records and our company formation details are all in different countries.

We consider this to be of vital importance, not for ourselves, but for you, our Clients.

Keep Your Mouth Shut

As a final word on security, at least for the moment, the vast majority of cases brought against owners of offshore bank accounts (and companies) for suspected tax evasion by 'onshore, home country' tax authorities are due to loose mouths, disgruntled employees or ex-employees, vindictive wives & girlfriends (or ex-), jealous neighbors or friends or by those who just love to cause trouble for others. If anyone, repeat, anyone, knows you have an offshore bank account, you could have a possible problem in the future, even if you are running your business and account totally legally. Tax authorities tend to work on the highly undemocratic basis of "guilty until proved innocent", which can be mighty hard to do!

PGP ENCRYPTION

Our email server is hosted on our own servers, and you can send us normal emails with confidence.
If you want you can send PGP encrypted.

Talking of PGP, if you would like to use this in your correspondence with us to ensure security and confidentiality, we are only too happy to do so.

PGP is a freeware that you can download from official site: http://www.pgpi.org/products/pgp/versions/freeware/.

Download and install your free copy of PGP program from here.

Our public key for OffshoreSimple is available below- just add this to your public keyring under the name of OffshoreSimple Public Key.

If you do use PGP, please don't forget to send us your public key by e-mail, either as a .pgp attachment or in the body text (as ours, below), as has been known to happen!

For added convenience, click here to get our public key

We're quite used to having to help people in using PGP for the first time, sending keys seems to be the biggest problem, they're frequently sent to us in an indecipherable format, so don't worry if you don't get it right first time!

Whilst we have no wish to deter anyone from making legitimate purchases or transferring money to accounts around the globe, care must always be taken over the inevitable 'paper trail' that most transactions leave.

This must not be underestimated especially by US based clients, real-time monitoring of financial transactions, especially those going out of the US, is now a reality thanks to organizations like FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network).

FinCEN is a 'quasi-secret' amalgam of the interests of the Internal Revenue Services (IRS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), the Secret Service, US Customs and the US Mail. FinCEN also has the co-operation of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, with full access to all their massive resources.

Whilst FinCEN does catch some criminals in the accepted sense of the word, an estimated 90% of its 'catches' are ordinary individuals and small businesses merely trying to keep a bit of their own money outside the tax-man's knowledge!

Whilst we don't yet have full knowledge of the implementation of this system, FinCEN is known to have been experimenting with a massive Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer system linking all the US based banking computers together with those of all the US based or owned credit card organizations.

Talk about paranoia and intrusion of privacy - this, and some of the associated federal 'financial' crimes like somehow forgetting to complete Form 4789 on a transaction over USD10,000 - goes way beyond anything the Communist regimes that those same government agencies so criticized did even in their heyday.

For a fuller investigation into this, and other, aspects of the US and international banking scene, read 'Banking in Silence', just one of the excellent Scope Reports.

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Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the details contained herein are correct and up-to-date, it does not constitute legal or other professional advice. We do not accept any responsibility, legal or otherwise, for any errors or omissions.

Please go to our Uses of offshore Companies Page where you will find interesting information on the benefits of using offshore companies and trusts for business and personal use, links to information on other locations and details of our products and services.