Does LifeLock work?

September 9, 2010 – 10:03 am

With incidents of identity theft increasing almost daily, finding a way to protect personal information is on the forefront of everyone’s mind.

LifeLock is an identity theft protection service that offers what no other service an – a proactive way to protect your most personal data. As the industry leader, LifeLock looks for identity theft before it happens, and notifies you the minute there’s any compromise, so that immediate action can be taken to stifle it, before the damage is done.

But does LifeLock really work? Take a look at what the service provides and determine for yourself. LifeLock will help its members by placing fraud alerts on credit reports and by helping them opt out of pre-approved credit offers. You can do that much on your own, as well as obtain a copy of your credit report, which LifeLock will also do.

LifeLock does so much more than that. If you have a job, have shopped online, or have ever applied for credit, then your information is out there, thanks in large part to the Internet. Because it’s out there in so many places, there’s no way you could ever get all the pieces back.

And those pieces are valuable. They can be bought and traded on the black market by thieves. But LifeLock will monitor more than 10,000 known criminal Web sites for the illegal trading and selling of your personal information. There’s just no way you could do this on your own.

LifeLock also monitors databases for address changes, a common technique used by identity thieves, who change your address so that your mail will come to them, enabling them to obtain your personal information. As a LifeLock subscriber, you would be notified if your address is ever changed.

One of the most valuable aspects of LifeLock’s protection is their $1 million guarantee, which states that while a customer of LifeLock, if your identity is ever compromised, LifeLock will spend up to $1 million to hire attorneys, investigators and case managers to clear your good name. People who fall victim to identity theft without such protection spend countless hours trying to clean up the mess.

LifeLock has more than 1 million members, and of those only 105 have had to use the guarantee. That’s about one-thousandth of 1 percent. That’s pretty darn convincing. LifeLock obviously works.

Call LifeLock today. Receive 30 days free and get a 10 percent discount on enrollment with the LifeLock Promo Code “Defense.”

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