When people fake their deaths,how do they go about starting their new life without getting caught like they do in the movies and spies?
What is the step by step process they do and is it still possible in modern times?
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Before the modern era it was super easy because there wasn’t a whole lot of ‘evidence’ one way or the other. Simply leaving the area was enough in most instances unless you were infamous for something and immediately recognizable (think cartoonish scar on your face) and as long as you didn’t come up with an outlandish backstory no one would really dig.
“I’m John Smith I came here from New York because my parents died and I wanted to start a new life down south. Oh, I used to work at a factory and only speak English” Pre-1935 this would have been all you’d need.
In modern times as others have pointed out it is much harder, at least within the US. Depending on what assets you have available it may be as simple as moving to a poor nation and bribing a few people for documentation (which costs far less than you are expecting, like in Georgia the minimum wage for the entire year is about 350 usd…so you don’t exactly have to be wealthy to get things like a work visa…or just decide not to work and just get permission to live in the nation)
And again it really depends on how much someone is actually looking for you. Like if the US government wants to find you and actually commits to the search good luck you would need quite a bit of money to try to stay hidden. But if you are just ‘some guy’ then they aren’t going to really search
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