Now that the Thanksgiving holiday has passed and Christmas is just a few short weeks away, the shopping frenzy has begun. But in the frenzy of making your list and checking it twice, don’t let your guard down long enough for thieves to steal your personal information.
More than 10 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. And anyone who has experienced identity theft will tell you that repairing your credit and finances after this kind of theft can be a long and frustrating ordeal.
Most of us by now have learned what we can do to protect ourselves, but the U.S. Justice Department is taking a fresh look at freezing credit records. A security freeze stops credit reporting agencies from releasing information about you to new creditors without your permission. I the credit agencies can’t release an individual’s credit information, then scam artists trying to use that person’s identity illegally shouldn’t be able to get new credit in that name.
Although this method certainly has merit, it is incomplete protection. And you can bet identity thieves are fully capable of finding and utilizing the loopholes.
The only way to truly protect your personal information is to be proactive and monitor it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We all know that’s impossible to do – who has time to do that?
But as a customer of LifeLock, you can rest assured that your information is monitored 24/7, and LifeLock will look for threats to your personal information that are both credit and non-credit related. In other words, LifeLock fills in the loopholes, and makes your personal information useless for anyone but you.
Give them a call today…and make sure you have a holly, jolly Christmas.
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