LifeLock Protects Your Good Name

Consumers do not always realize how little of their sensitive information an identity thief needs in order to commit fraud. In some cases, all a fraudster requires is your name, and with just a simple Google search, they can gain access to a variety of personal information, including your address and phone number, by which they can contact you pretending to be a legitimate bank or credit service doing a routine check. Unfortunately as technology has advanced, the amount of ways fraudsters can victimize consumers has grown exponentially. Between 2005 and 2007, 28.3 million people were affected by identity theft related crimes, and nearly every week, the media is highlighting a new scam or phishing technique or broadcasting the theft or hack of a company’s database that contained the private identities of several thousand or even several million Americans who will now be at risk for fraud. Regrettably, many consumers view the accruing identity theft problem passively, believing they are defenseless. However, new statistics have shown that LifeLock’s identity theft prevention service can cut a consumer’s risk of fraud in half with a simple, proven, and guaranteed method of proactive protection.

In 2005, LifeLock became the world’s first and only identity theft prevention company to combine a variety of proactive steps into one service, providing clients with complete, guaranteed protection. As soon as we enroll a client, LifeLock immediately goes to work, activating security alerts on the enrollee’s sensitive information with consumer credit reporting agencies and check verification services. Once the alert is activated, our clients’ risk goes down significantly, since the alert requires credit card companies and banks to verify new lines of credit or changes in their accounts with our enrollees before they can approve anything. In addition, our service maintains the alerts, so our clients are never without protection from credit and bank fraud. LifeLock’s service is also unique in its proactive approach to mail fraud and dumpster diving. By removing our clients from junk mail lists, particularly pre-approved credit offer lists, LifeLock can drastically minimize the amount of exposure to which mercantile and credit card companies subject our clients’ sensitive information. Furthermore, we also order annual credit reports from the major credit card companies for you, so you can verify your accounts and purchases. We are so assured our service works better than any other type of fraud protection or credit monitoring service that we back our anticipative service with a million dollar guarantee. LifeLock’s own CEO is so positive our service secures identities that he has broadcasted his social security number on our homepage, in our commercials, and in our media spots because he wants to prove that we can protect anyone’s identity from scammers, thieves, and hackers.

Before LifeLock was formed, all consumers could do was worry whether their identity would be stolen or spend hours every week checking reports, shredding mail, and monitoring credit accounts, all the while doing very little to prevent theft. If by chance a thief did steal a purse, computer, or personal files, victims were all told the same thing: to check bank statements and verify credit purchases, which can only determine whether theft or fraud has occurred, not prevent it. Even leaders in the credit field have admitted the lack of protection these methods afford, and as the number of identity theft cases continue to rise, American consumers have begun to seek alternatives that afford greater protection from identity theft of all sorts. Out of this need for better protection, the LifeLock company was founded and has since risen to become the leader in the identity theft prevention industry, causing huge hits to fraud and identity related crimes due to our service’s proactive approach that intercepts fraud. Key to our service is the fraud alerts we place on your information, which enables us to detect and stop identity theft before it occurs, allowing consumers to rest easy knowing their identities are completely secured without them having to do a thing.

While other identity protection services can offer you minimal security, LifeLock can actually guarantee you protection for what is most important: your good name. The fact of the matter is that your identity is more than just a credit report, a piece of paper, or a computer file. You are a person who has a right to use your information how you see fit and to block others, who do not have your permission, from using your identity. Thankfully, stricter consumer protection laws have begun to safeguard consumers from having to pay for credit charges made by a fraudster, but the laws cannot protect victims from the personal damages identity thieves can cause, from ruining credit to destroying employment opportunities and credibility in the business world. Because of the potential financial and personal damages identity theft can cause, LifeLock guarantees that as long as you are our client, a felon will never be able to use your identity. Our goal is to give consumers back the control of their identity, from who uses it to how it is used, by locking your information, so only you can make use of it. We view the identity theft problem simply: if you can make people’s identities worthless to everyone except the rightful owner, you will cripple the identity theft industry. Once fraud stops paying , we will have done our job, which is to put fraudsters out of business. As of right now, identity theft is still the fastest growing crime, with one in eight Americans becoming a victim of identity theft every year, but you can have complete protection starting today for only 10 dollars a month. With the high risk identity theft is posing to Americans just like yourself, isn’t it time you do something to prevent it? Countless identity theft protection experts have already reviewed our service, and they all say pretty much the same thing about LifeLock: “It works,” so try it for yourself.