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I just wanted to pass on a bit of caution. As a former professional Executive Protection Specialist (Bodyguard to the Super Rich) Many of you will walk out of the bank as millionaires, multi-millionaires and some of you Billionaires.
You have been given great advise when it comes to Identity and computer security and some things to do to protect your identity. (All Computers should have VPN protection and encrypted emails -)
All great information and thought. But, please think about this! Please don't let the most blessed day of your life be the beginnings of some of the most frightening and horrific experiences of your life!
That's when you get that dreaded call that your daughter, son or wife will not be coming home unharmed until a paper bag full of un-marked 100 dollar bills is brought to this remote location and traded for the safe return of your beloved. (please, please, please) don't think this plot is reserved for the movies.
It happens all the time, 100s of kidnapping cases each year occur and are never on the daily news channel. These unscrupulous types are what my team always referred to as land sharks. Yes they are out there, they are hungry and they are dangerous. It is true these land sharks smell blood 1000 miles away and the blood these pirates smell is money, Easy money!
The day you walk out of that bank with that receipt for 1 mill plus, your blood trail just started! They will be watching, car, yacht, expensive homes etc. being purchased. Don't think for a second that don't have feelers out there, car dealers, bank employees, construction workers, you name it. Yes, even Baby sitters. These dirty players have feelers everywhere.
One case a team member worked on shortly after I got out of the business involved a baby sitter who gave out security codes, travel plans, work schedules and this teenager even left the lock on the basement door unlocked all for a few hundred bucks.
The bad guys walked in, the three year old girl was taken, the parents forked out 3 million dollars and the money was gone in a flash and the three year old is still a picture on a milk carton somewhere!! I really don't want to scare you or insult your intelligence. But you WILL be a target of these evil players.
How do you protect your family and yourself? you contact a professional security specialist, a reputable Private Investigation firm can direct you. I strongly suggest that you get a hold of ESI (Executive Security International) it is a very well run Bodyguard training center.
The instructors are former Secret Service Agents. They train hundreds of protection specialist (both men and woman) They are the best of the best and can hook you up with the right people.
It is not my intention to scare anybody, I hope you find this information useful and thought provoking. If this post makes it and gets your attention I would be glad to write part 2 and tell you how to make sure you are hiring a true professional and not being taken by con men.
Security is a business full of snakes and I will tell you how to avoid them as well as some things you should start doing right away to prepare for your wealthy future
Think Security
I suppose that after such a tremendous response to my post called Think security part 1, I owe it to my new friends to post part 2 and to answer some great questions when it comes to the security of your family and I will share how I will go about protecting my own family. Also I will attempt to correct my writing skills to make this more readable.
According to Sun Tzu in "The Art of War" It says ""If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Based on this idea, let me use a scenario to illustrate the point.
Put yourself in the position of the land pirate. Remember that most pirates run with a crew. They work as teams and they don't care who gets hurt as long as they get what they want and we all know that is money!
They have done some snooping and have identified you as a potential target. In clandestine interviews with neighbors etc. These deviants learned that you have a wife, four kids at the ages of 2 to 8 yrs. old. They learn that your oldest son attends the local elementary school and that he rides the bus, which leaves and arrives at the same time every day.
These criminals sit outside of your home and take diligent notes on what time you leave for work and the fact that your wife stays home with the other kids most of the day occasionally leaving at random times to run errands etc. They make tedious notes about the activities and routines of your family. Information is vital to these scurvy dogs.
They have to decide how they will get you to part with your money and the easiest way to do that, extortion, blackmail, theft/robbery or kidnapping. Kidnapping is one of the most common methods with the least risks on their part. You are now the distraught loving parent and are under their control.
You are too afraid to call the authorities and you are now motivated to give up the money because they have your child or wife and we all would do anything on earth to keep our loved ones safe.
Ok, let me drive to the point and this is a crucial point when thinking about what security expert or agency you hire. These pirates have already determined through multiple ways, paid off bank employees, yard workers, remodeling contractors etc. (these info sources are endless.)
That you are a target and that In order to be successful they must gather as much information as possible in order pull off a successful kidnapping to assure that you willingly give them the money they desire. By watching your every move and noting the activities of each of your family members they can determine how vulnerable your family is as well as the best plan to make their move.
Ok I know this is very long and to spare you having to read all day I will post part 3 this evening I will go over all about hiring professional executive / family protection specialists and how they function in and around you family to keep you safe. Here is a parting tip.
Start getting used to changing your routines. This is the first thing a protection specialist should train you to do is to change the times you leave, the times you come home, especially your routes, start taking your kids to school, stop sending them on the bus, that is too predictable.
Change all the established patterns that you do day to day. Deviate your routes as much as possible. I must implore, don't, and I repeat! DO NOT live your life in fear, just go about your life, live well and help others as much as possible just take necessary precautions. Follow the advise of your protection agent like you will your wealth managers, attorneys etc.
In Answer to a question about how many bodyguards will you need to hire. (you are millionaires now, you can afford it) One good agent can train and protect your family, he/she will work with alarm companies to set up the best security system around your homes he/she will also work with trained dogs. Will you have them or not? I will have very well trained Dobermans and German Shepherds.
Your agent should be a counter surveillance expert. Stopping the free information flow simply cuts out the bad guys ability to plan any event against you or your family. Most protection experts work with teams as well.
Think Security
What is the first thought when I say bodyguard? I'll bet you thought of a 250 lbs weightlifter, ex-football player, all star wrestler or the like. A big muscle bound man standing around your front door with folded arms and an Uzi under his suite coat. Right?
Well maybe in the movies, but certainly not real life. Take me for example: I am 5'9" I can't lift my own body weight above my head more than a few times, I might be able to do ten pushups without collapsing and chin ups - forget it!! I am a normal guy.
I'm not a nerd, jock or playboy I am just an ordinary average single dad with four wonderful kids that like to wrestle in the living room and they usually always win.
My history. (There is a point.)
In 1987, I attended and graduated Executive Security International, a school located in Aspen Colorado. This is the premier school for professional executive protection specialists. My instructors were former Secret Service agents, top of the line protection agents, navy seals, and bodyguards for the super wealthy.
The training included shooting with top competitive shooting champions, driving with top race-car drivers, Martial arts with navy seal instructors etc. The point is that this school trains and qualifies hundreds of agents each year.
Many go on to work in law enforcement, special ops etc. in order to get endorsed by the school you must graduate as what they refer to as level 3. Anything below that and you do not get an endorsement a referral or as much as a good word.
ESI only refers or places the top of the top the best of the best and my point of all this is, I myself, even as a graduate of this incredible school will be interviewing and hiring agents for my family protection from there.
Heck I might even be real nice and hire one for my ex-wife. Only the kidnapers would pay me to take her back! My class had about twenty students; only four of us graduated level 3 and got endorsed and placed. One went on to work at the white house with the Secret Service.
Two went to Tanzania to protect executives for Exxon. I went on to protect the family of a wealthy cookie company executive in Utah. You have probably all had free samples in a mall somewhere.
After that, I worked for a wealthy newspaper executive from India, and many other wealthy executives and a presidential candidate who you all know as the governor of the state of CA.
I then started my own protection agency where we guarded high profile executives, celebrities, country music performers and even other presidential candidates.
The point is this. If after you read the rest of Part 3 you decide that you do want to hire a professional, I have nothing to gain by telling you that I will be hiring someone from ESI, probably a female agent since I have small kids and a woman tends to be a lot more observant.
So before we go on let me say this, the best security that you can employ is simply, secrecy! The fewer people that know you have money or access to it the better off you are. (Hands down) I believe that the NDA, which I have read so many complaints about, will be the best thing for you over all. Create your story and stick to it. I do believe that the NDA is there for your own protection.
Think about it, if signing the NDA is for the contract rate only what is to say that those that take the street rate won't go write books and make movies. It is because they won't walk away with as much money. The ones who really need to keep their mouths shut are the ones making the big bucks and are more likely to be targets of the bad guys.
So you are now worth a few million dollars, some of you billionaire is the word. But, why does anyone, and I mean anyone need to know that? Keep your financial affairs in the lowest part of the kitchen drawer.
Don't flaunt your wealth; don't expose yourself to the pirates from the beginning. Yes, they have their feelers and you may get exposed through them but the more you can do to avoid un-needed attention the more you can rest assured that you are less of a target.
RECOMMENDED: a book called "the Millionaire Next Door" Read it! Read it again and live it. '
Do you know that Sam Walton lived in a modest home in a normal neighborhood and he drove a 1970s pick-up truck? Most people around him had no Idea he was a billionaire. The guy that started and sold Micro-soft lived in my hometown and nobody knew he was worth billions when it sold. He drove the same old VW bus around.
He eventually bought a really nice home in a secured neighborhood but not for several years and not until his kids begged him to move to a bigger home. Most millionaires are average people with the same wardrobe that I like, T-shirts and jeans, my boots are the most expensive things in my closet and it will stay that way even post RV.
I will not buy or drive a Bentley or a Ferrari. A new truck and maybe a Dodge Challenger is my extreme. I will not be chauffer driven except for a limousine that takes my four kids and I to the airport to go on our vacation. Yes average, ordinary people splurge sometimes and limo's are the max of that rare splurge.
If you must buy Lamborghinis, mansions and high roller toys do it in the name of an offshore corporation. Many people believe that the super wealthy use things like bank accounts in the Bahamas as tax avoidance but the downright truth is its hiding their wealth from the pirates of the world.
Its about 90% privacy and maybe 10% tax avoidance. Your financial planners and wealth advisors can help you manage your funds and maintain you privacy. However, don't forget pirates have well paid feelers everywhere.
If you own your own business, if you bought an expensive yacht, you moved out of your modest 200 k home into a 3 million dollar home on the beach, if you come across as a person of means with access to big money. You may still be considered a target and the surveillance begins.
Remember I told you that a successful kidnapping requires information, observation, and tailing the target. Your protection agent should be an expert in surveillance and counter surveillance. A master martial artist or a quick draw and a dead aim are cool talents to possess, however none of the professionals that I worked with nor myself ever carried a gun. The best talent a security expert has is observation skills.
Now pay attention. The name of my agency was Silent Shadow Detectives. The name says it all. My mission was to protect the client and the client never knew we were there. We were silent and we remained in the shadows. Nobody and a do mean nobody knew we were there.
I will apologize now for the length of this writing but I feel this is important so I want to share a story to bring home my main point when it comes to hiring a top protection team.
When I worked for the cookie company, she was a Mrs. and her name was their brand. Her husband ran the company and did all the hiring and firing. One day I turned in an invoice and he did not want to pay me. During our meeting he said he would not pay for services not rendered.
I gave him the detailed report of where his wife and family had been at every moment of the day, I included all the routes she had taken and what car she had taken and then switched throughout the day as she was instructed to do in our initial training. I also gave him detailed descriptions of the Private Investigator that he hired to follow her while watching for us.
His PI had lost the trail of his wife four different times, as my team was able to derail him in his pursuit. As far as we knew initially he was a watcher for the bad guys until our research team identified him as a local Private Detective. I did have to apologize for the three flat tires and his disabled vehicle.
Nevertheless this executive was comforted to know that his family could be themselves, live their lives and live as normal as possible without muscle bound goons in suites standing around every corner.
The point is this; you can have protection without having your life style cramped by a bunch of armed men in fatigues.
So you want to hire the best. Call ESI arrange for interviews with several agents. As the agent comes into your office for the interview excuse yourself for five minutes and then leave. Come back, make yourself comfortable, ask some basic qualifying questions and then ask them to describe the picture on the wall directly behind them.
Remember observation skills are the most important skills a protection agent has. So, he/she can't tell you the color of the balloons or exactly how many clowns but they do at least know it is a picture of a circus. Get the point?
Then move on to the critical test. If they are not willing to do this test, then move on whether you are interviewing ESI grads or PI agencies from the yellow pages I would conduct this test on any protection team I am considering, ask them to follow and report on a brother, friend, neighbor or anyone willing to take detailed notes of their day.
Several potential agents have followed my bother before I hired then to work on one of my protection teams. Compare the notes from your assigned target with the notes of your interviewee.
Do not forget, a great counter surveillance operative is going to be an expert at surveillance, especially if you are hiring a team.
Once you have hired the right agent to work for your family you should have daily contact and they should be able to tell you where you have been where your children have been. If they discovered any possible watchers for the pirates and what counter measures were taken to thwart even possible surveillance operations.
It is true that on a daily basis you, your family members are going to come into contact with strangers. What you do not need is some overzealous bozo jumping out of the bushes to tackle every unknown passerby.
What your agents are looking for is watchers and then they eliminate all possibilities for these watchers to gain any usable info. At some point the pirates figure out that you have real pros working for you and they simply move on to the next target.
Thank you for reading this I hope this information is helpful. I personally thank God every day that I know about this opportunity. If this information I have shared has done nothing more than to start you thinking then I am at peace with myself.
So, I will leave you now with this final thought. How many times in your life did your bicycle NOT get stolen because you had a good lock on it? We will never know. So how many times will your family be kept safe because you have a true professional watching the watchers? Think about it.
The best advice the security team told us on what to do once the RV hits, Is to keep your mouth shut & Mind your own Business!...
Millionaire Next Door - Thomas J. Stanley - Audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4psbb5RzdU
"Taken" For "Ransom" Trailer (recut)
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Man on Fire (2004) Trailer