Not visiting your offshore online banking through a VPN?

OffshorePrivacy · #1 11-02-2009, 11:26 PM

Confidential sources tell us of a plan to begin serving subpoenas on the major ISP seeking records of nationals visiting the IP address of some of the largest offshore banks as more and more governments move to track down unreported offshore bank accounts. This move will not be limited to the US.

You should always use a proxy, VPN or other means to encrypt and secure your browsing when conducting offshore banking online. Also avoid US as well as some EU "secure" browsing services as these are subject to the authorities seizing their online records.

Dready · #2 11-03-2009, 01:24 AM

Is there a VPN / proxy company you recommend?

OffshorePrivacy · #3 11-03-2009, 03:00 AM

I use perfect-privacy.com and always pay with Liberty Reserve just in case.

PanamaLegal · #4 11-03-2009, 10:32 PM

Problem is most of these proxy services are in privacy invasive countries like in the EU and USA and Canada which is where there is cheap bandwidth. Their servers do get snatched from time to time in an investigation. What you get told is they lost the server. They may not even know the server was snatched, they just think it was closed. It is also completely impossible for a proxy service to operate without any logs in that they need to be able to identify abuse or else they would be losing servers constantly. These proxy server companies have limited amount of IP addresses to work with. What happens is these addresses rapidly get used in places like paypal, ebay and at the big banks for fraud and fraud attempts. Then you come along and have the same ip and your paypal account or others gets shut down for using the same ip as the abuser. Just about need your own anonymous server to proxy off of that strips your ip address out.

OffshorePrivacy · #5 11-04-2009, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Offshoreprivacy

Also avoid US as well as some EU "secure" browsing services as these are subject to the authorities seizing their online records.

Yes true, hence this warning :-)

PanamaLegal · #6 11-04-2009, 05:08 PM

Offshore Privacy and others interested - recently there have been some alerts regarding man in the middle security breaches with VPN's etc. This does require a compromised ISP (think search warrant) and a person watching your sessions live. They essentially can spoof your ip easily since they control your router and get the passwords to log into a bnk or anything else. There should be warnings about security certificates and other things. It is premature but we think the SSH solution for a tunnel type approach may be more secure. Just in passing.

rockhardbaby · #7 11-04-2009, 06:19 PM

Thank you sir... very informitive.

Dready · #8 11-05-2009, 05:17 AM

Any companies one might want to avoid then?

OffshorePrivacy · #9 11-05-2009, 05:31 AM

Most of the companies that advertise on Google are US based. Others are Canadian or UK based which is just as bad. Do a thorough investigation about any VPN provider to see where they are based and pay anonymously, never by credit card (unless it is a fake gift card) or PayPal.

If you can find a Russian based VPN that is ideal.

PanamaLegal · #10 11-05-2009, 02:39 PM

The EU based VPN companies are not so secure either. The Germans especially go after them. Italians do too. What they tell you is they lost their server in such and such a country when in fact the authorities took it for study and/or downloaded the hard drive. It is ahrd to find a good company because they need to get cheap bandwidth so they can be profitable. This means they need to operate in the police states where the cheap bandwidth is. It is a problem for sure.