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The LifeLock FTC Settlement and Our Opinion

March 12, 2010

The Federal Trade Commission announced the other day that a settlement has been reached with LifeLock to the tune of $12 million. Since the breaking of this news, and partially due to a press release issued by LifeLock referencing Identity Theft Lab’s rating of them as the “Best Overall” identity protection, we have been asked [...]

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Identity Thief Operates Credit Card Scam From Prison

February 26, 2010

If there’s any good news about identity theft, it’s that some thieves are getting prosecuted and put in jail. That doesn’t make the problem go away, though, even for some that are locked up, since a few thieves still conduct their operations from jail, with the help from accomplices on the outside of course. For [...]

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How Secure is Your Medical Data?

October 2, 2009

There has been a lot of emphasis lately on nationalizing health records so that a person can go to any doctor in the country and he or she can just pull them up on the computer. Sure, this sounds like a good idea in theory, but it could also go horribly wrong. Consider what recently [...]

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LifeLock’s New Identity Theft Protection Service

September 3, 2009

Over the next few weeks LifeLock will be transitioning to their new identity theft protection system. The new service will replace fraud alerts and work together with LifeLocks other services including eRecon, TrueAddress and WalletLock. Though LifeLock is touting this as a change for the better, and indeed it may be, it is clear [...]

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LifeLock Partners with Symantec to Offer Dual Protection to Americans

August 18, 2009

LifeLock and Symantec, makers of the popular Norton Internet Securty Suite, joined forces today to help protect consumers from identity theft both offline and online.  The first step of this partnership sees LifeLock’s identity theft protection service packaged at a 10% discount (first 30 days free) within Norton retail box sets at stores across the [...]

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MVA’s No Smiling Policy Offers Identity Theft Protection

July 14, 2009

While waiting hours in line at the MVA can be enough of a reason for people to not smile in their pictures, there is now a more important reason: to try to stop identity theft. A new “no smiling” policy in place in Virginia, Indiana, Arkansas and Nevada is meant to assist new photo recognition [...]

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The Identity Theft Mortgage Crisis

June 16, 2009

There’s another aspect of the mortgage crisis that few people talk about and that’s identity theft. While there is a definite rise in foreclosures as of late, there is also a rise in mortgage fraud via identity theft. Two ways that this can occur are through unscrupulous people who pose as lenders or buyers using [...]

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Identity Theft Increasing Due to Bad Economy

May 21, 2009

If you haven’t been living in a hole in the ground, you must know that the American economy is going through some very troublesome times. With all of the layoffs, foreclosures and other unfortunate goings on, identity theft may be becoming more appealing to those who never would have even thought of committing the crime [...]

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Protect Your Identity Today, There is No Low That an Identity Thief Won’t Go

May 15, 2009

You may think that some things are still sacred even to identity thieves: not stealing from children or religious institutions, for example. However, it may ultimately help you to know just how low these people will stoop for their own financial gain or protection. It may just be the wake up call you need to [...]

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Identity Theft Due to IRS Fax Scam

March 13, 2009

Just like consumers try to stay ahead of identity theft, identity thieves are always thinking ahead to a bigger and better scam. A new one that has come up that is quite similar to an old one, involves e-mail and the IRS. The identity thief that designed the scam took to heart that consumers are [...]

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