There are many reasons a person may have to attempt to identify the real name and address behind a PO or PMB mail box but there are also many reasons that may not be permissible. Some motives could be interpreted as harassment or stalking. For instance many people will open a PO Box and use that address simply to provide extra privacy in their personal life. It would not be appropriated to violate this persons desire for personal privacy.

However if a person has set up a PO Box to conduct less than honest business dealings they you may have a legitimate reason to trace down their actual location or residence. Many fly by night outfits will set up a business out of a PO Box and literally take the money and run. They will advertise for goods or service, accept payments then never deliver. They will simply close up shop and move on. In a situation like that a PO Box search will uncover the real name and address behind that mail box

The most common of all permissible reasons is probably in the pursuit of collecting on a debt or unpaid bill. Perhaps you have a court ordered judgment or a vehicle repression order and need to locate where the vehicle or other are assets are located.

Another legitimate and permissible reason would be for the legal service of process. A process server may not have a physical name or address for a person or business. He may only have a PO Box or PMB. In this situation it is reasonable and legal to obtain their physical address.

In fact the USPS has a process and procedure where a private investigator or attorney can provide them with a court case number and they will turn over all the information they have about the owner of that PO Box. This information may or may not be current information. It could be the information that was used to open the box account years ago and may no longer be accurate.In that case a private investigator can use data bases or other sources to identify and locate the real owner of the PO Box. The investigator may even use a pretext to mail items to the box in order to trick the owner into revealing their location and identity. But whether it is a protect, public records, data base or through a subpoena it is a simple a routine matter to obtain this information.

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More Steps To Ensure Privacy and Be Anonymous On The Internet

In our last article in this series we discussed the many reasons why people would want to remain antonymous on the Internet and the best first step they should take to create a firewall between them self and the world. That being a Nevada Corporation, with proxy service and nominee service. Once you have the NV corp you can set up a DBA for the corp, this will be a second name and even a second layer of protection for you, that DBA can set up a checking account as well. Your offline identity will the NV corp, your bank, your phone, auto registration, utility bills will all be under that name.

Now the next step is your online identity. Let's create your online persona. We can begin with a domain name registration. Pick a very common name like Ann Smith, if a stalker searches for the name Ann Smith they will get millions of hits. Use your NV corp bank account to buy a prepaid debit card and use that card number to buy the domain name AnnSmith.com. Then take the extra step to buy the proxy registration offered by the hosting company. By using the proxy registration anyone doing a whois lookup on the domain name will not be able to see who the domain is registered to.

Now you can set up an email address on annsmith.com. Such as Ann@annsmith .com. Anyone reading that would assume your name is AnnSmitth. You can take this a step further by using that email to set up some online social networking accounts using that name and email. People checking up on that email address will see plenty of "proof" that Ann Smith is a real person with a real email account.

When setting up your email on your domain you want to be sure not to use a PC based email program like Outlook Express, you only want to use the web based version on Gmail. Gmail will strip your IP information from your email headers if you have it set up correctly.

Now if you notice we are not only taking steps to conceal your real identify, we are also creating an alternate Internet identity so that stalkers trying to locate or identify you will only find information about the fictitious "Ann Smith". Use your imagination and create blogs and blog posts. Place some ads on craigslist using your email. Let your potential stalker find a whole lot of information about the fictitious Ann Smith. Her pets , her vacations, where her kids go to school, the church she attends. If you ever have the unfortunate experience of being the target of a cyber stalker , it is this kind of information they are looking for, so give it to them in droves , but all for the fictitious Ann Smith.

What if your stalker is really slick and uses online data base searches that he pays for? Well we can fool those too. The fictitious AnnSmith is going to fool those data bases as well. These data base services obtain information from people from credit headers and other sources where people voluntarily but unknowingly give their real name and phone number when filling out credit applications, give a real name and address and phone number when ordering a pizza from large chains and or subscribe to magazines. While you live in Kansas , AnnSmith@annSmith.com lives in a penthouse in NYC, she orders pizzas to her manhattan address using her prepaid cell phone and loves to fill out applications for fun. AnnSmith@annSmith.com has left quite a paper trail for herself.

ed Opperman of Opperman Investigations is a Private Investigator and a Paralegal, if you need assistance setting up a corporation contact www.emailrevealer.com