You will need to have your utilities turned on anonymously. The way to do this is to have your utilities put in the name of your business. You could even have a different Business Name for your utilities. Put your house in one Business Name and your utilities in a different Business Name. You will need to get an EIN or “Employer Identification Number” to have your utilities turned on. There is no way for a utility company to verify the EIN you provide to them is attached to the Business Name you give. You could fake an EIN but that would be silly as they are easy to obtain and free. An EIN has the same number of digits as a Social Security Number and the only difference is an EIN has one dash and the dash comes after the first two numbers. Like this, 12-3456789. As opposed to a Social Security Number, which has two dashes, 123-45-6789. You can go to the IRS website to get a new EIN and you can find their website here:
You will then click on “Apply for an EIN online”. You will need to supply the IRS with all of your information. This will include supplying your name and social security number.
You will need an address for your business and a phone number. Think about what you are doing and get the information worked out first. You could go to any UPS Store and rent a mailbox to use for your business address or any other Private Mailbox Service. The UPS Store will ask to see your driver’s license but just go ahead and give it to them because they won’t share the information with anyone else. They are required to get ID in case somebody uses one of their boxes for fraud and the authorities have to hunt that person down. You will not be committing any fraud so you are 100% safe. In fact, all you need is an address. You won’t receive any mail because you will get your EIN online. You could just look up a UPS Store address and provide that as your business address without having rented a private mailbox.
You may not want to provide your real information to the SSA for your EIN if you are going in deep cover. This can compromise your anonymity. There are ways to do this anonymously since they are free and the process is online. If you haven’t done anything illegal, and law enforcement is not looking for you, you are 100% safe giving your real information. You can use that EIN to buy your house, turn on your utilities, work, and make money.
You can just make up a phone number if you want because they won’t ever try to call you and they don’t verify the phone number.
EIN’s first two numbers are the only numbers that have to be valid. This site will give you the two number prefixes that are valid:
When you call the utility company, you tell them your business now owns or rents this property and you need to have the utilities put into the name of your business. New businesses buy and rent properties every day of the week. This is a common event and they won’t suspect anything.