LifeLock discount and promotion code
February 4, 2010 – 5:37 pm
You’ve no doubt noticed the many ID theft prevention services and credit monitoring services that have popped up lately. Some have catchy songs alluding to free credit reports that aren’t actually free. Others use celebrities and CGI squirrels. But the fact remains that there’s been one company who has been performing these services for nearly five years — and doing a good job of it.
LifeLock currently has over 1.5 million members that use its services for a reason. Instead of simply offering you the ability to get your credit report (a free annual service, by the way), LifeLock takes a proactive stance on identity theft. In addition to LifeLock’s Identity Theft Alert system — which notifies you immediately when someone uses your information to apply for credit or services — LifeLock also issues every member eRecon. eRecon actively scans the web for any illegal selling or trading of your name and personal information. If they find even a hint of it, they notify you and help resolve the problem. LifeLock offers their basic membership at $10 a month, but if you use LifeLock promotion code DEFENSE when signing up you’ll receive 30 days free and 10% off your annual membership. That’s right, only $9 a month when you use DEFENSE as your discount code.
LifeLock also offers LifeLock Command Center which gives you all of LifeLock’s base services, plus more proactive measures to help protect you. LifeLock Personal Breach Detection monitors unregulated file-sharing networks for your information. They monitor payday loan requests as well. If your name and address is listed on public reports, court records, aliases or even as a sex offender’s address then LifeLock notifies you. Think of how much time, money and frustration could be involved with resolving issues like those. LifeLock offers their Command Center membership for $15 a month. However, if you use LifeLock promo code DEFENSE you’ll receive 10% off that membership cost.
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Twitter is once again in the midst of a giant phishing attempt by an offsite entity. This morning, thousands of Twitter account holder were issued emails from Twitter saying that their account passwords had been reset. The email reads:
Identity theft is a horrible thing. It’s even worse when that theft gives criminals access to your bank accounts and they withdraw massive amounts of money in your name. But now there’s something even worse than that — when your bank sues over the amount stolen.
Four Fort Lauderdale, Florida men were arrested in Bensalem, New Jersey for committing identity theft in a crime ring that spanned from Connecticut to Florida. The men were found with driver’s licenses, checkbooks, credit cards and social security numbers for around 100 people. The victims included people from Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
LifeLock recently unveiled a new tier of ID theft protection to their members. Named LifeLock Command Center, this new tier allows members to have more control over theft prevention measures than ever before. It’s a major step forward for LifeLock and keeps them on the leading edge of solutions to help fight identity theft. See the full list of LifeLock Command Center services here.
LifeLock has offered identity theft prevention services since 2005. During that time they’ve grown into the largest preventative ID theft solution in the world. Now LifeLock is offering even more protection to your in their LifeLock Command Center.
Like it or not your identity is out there. Every time you apply for a credit card, mortgage, loan, buy something online or even go to the doctor’s office you’re releasing parts of your identity into the ether. And that identity can been scooped up, mishandled or sold to unscrupulous people who will abuse it at the cost of your time, money and good name.
We usually bring you stories with high dollar amounts attached to them. Saying someone stole over $2 million by ID theft has a definable number — something we can all tally. But what about the emotional damage that ID theft can bring upon its victims? How is that calculated? How is that communicated?
Tashannyo Adena Medley, a receptionist for a Jacksonville Are Legal Aid — a firm that focuses on providing legal assistance to low income clients — was charged with identity theft this past week. Prosecutors believe that Medley was responsible for stealing at least twenty clients identity and using that information to take out payday loans in their name. The scam netted her around $11,000 and, most likely, some upcoming jail time.
A new phishing email is making the rounds. The email appears to be a message sent to you from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and asks you to fill out your “personal H1N1 vaccinating profile.” When you click on the link it takes you to an official looking site that asks for your name, contact information and medical history. Even if you don’t fill out the information clicking on the link will download a malicious program that can relay passwords and login information to hackers.
A few years ago retailers realized that not all people like to get up at 3 in the morning (or simply not sleep the day before) and go stand in line to buy products in their stores for discounted prices. Some genius realized that people would like to get deals from the comfort of their own homes as well. With that realization, Cyber Monday was created. And it was good.
The shopping day of the year is quickly approaching. Everywhere you look people are researching deals, checking credit card balances and getting in shape for the traditional line standing and sprint event we call Black Friday.
