LifeLock and FBI partner to offer identity theft summits to law enforcement

Friday, March 12th, 2010

LifeLock, an industry leader in proactive identity theft protection, and the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association have partnered to offer identity theft awareness seminars to law enforcements officials in Charlotte, Spokane and Seattle. These summits are intended to help law enforcement better identify and be aware of identity ...

As social media use increases so does your chance for theft

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Social media has really caught on in the last few years. Starting with MySpace, the ability to share, talk and friend other people on the internet has allowed users to branch out and have more fun online. Now services like Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and Foursquare continue to allow ...

Identity theft on the rise, but proactive services like LifeLock helping greatly states report

Friday, February 12th, 2010

According to a recent report by Javelin Strategy and Research, the number of victims of identity theft rose to 11 million in 2009. In addition, victims of credit, check and bank fraud also rose for the second year in a row. But it's not all bad news. The reports also ...

LifeLock discount and promotion code

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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 ...

Twitter resets accounts after offsite phishing

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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: Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in ...

Hard Drives Containing Information on 500,000 Patients Stolen from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Bad news if you're a BlueCross BlueShield member in the Volunteer state. Fifty-seven hard drives that contained personal information on around 500,000 BCBS members has been stolen according to the insurance company. The theft happened on October 2nd when an unidentified thief stole the drives from a closet in ...

LifeLock introduces Command Center membership

Monday, December 21st, 2009

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. The LifeLock Command Center option is a second tier membership. In addition ...

How LifeLock – a proactive identity theft prevention service – can help protect you

Monday, December 14th, 2009

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 ...

The emotional toll of being an ID theft victim

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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? ...

Legal aid ends up costing 20 identity theft victims

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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 ...

Study shows ID Theft risk climbs by five times after data breach

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims. To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...

Why become a LifeLock member? Here are some reasons.

Friday, November 6th, 2009

LifeLock is the industry leader in proactive identity theft protection for a reason. They don't simply monitor your credit or place fraud alerts on your behalf like some services. LifeLock takes charge with a variety of proactive measures and added benefits. When you become a member of LifeLock for only ...

D.A. issues 149 counts of ID theft related charges on Brooklyn man

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Parents tell their kids "you can grow up to be whatever you want to be" all the time. Maybe it's time to rethink that or, at the very least, add a disclaimer. "You can grow up to be whatever you want to be*... *as long as it involves being ...

Man tries to get his inheritance early, by stealing his Grandfather’s identity!

Friday, October 30th, 2009

How despicable does someone have to be to steal their own grandfather's identity? Just ask Arthur James IV, a 34 year old Delaware resident, who just wracked up ten charges of identity theft related crimes for doing just that. As if just the thought of stealing your grandfather's identity wasn't ...

An honest LifeLock review

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Honest reviews on the web are nearly an oxymoron at this point. The web is a place void of credibility and without references or a body of work it's hard to tell who you can trust. That's why when I say I'm going to provide an "honest" LifeLock review ...