Comments on: Has anyone here signed up for Lifelock to prevent identity theft? http://www.identitytheftinformation.org/has-anyone-here-signed-up-for-lifelock-to-prevent-identity-theft/ Identity Theft - Keep Your Identity For Yourself Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: TDT http://www.identitytheftinformation.org/has-anyone-here-signed-up-for-lifelock-to-prevent-identity-theft/comment-page-1/#comment-284 TDT Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:43:05 +0000 http://www.identitytheftinformation.org/514/has-anyone-here-signed-up-for-lifelock-to-prevent-identity-theft/#comment-284 I have not signed up for this, nor would consider it. There are a few reasons why: 1) It's a monthly charge for something you could do roughly every 90 days for free (I'll get into this more later) 2) I can't guarantee the security of this company, and while I don't have a choice on my own personal information in many companies - signing up for another just seems pointless for me. Lifelock seems to be more of a convenience thing for people, and if you feel the money is worth it then maybe it is...but for me it's not. Why? - Protecting your credit - I did this once, because a CD with SSNs were stolen and mine was on it (although unidentified and they think it just went missing) - but I called the credit companies and put a lock on my credit. Any time an account is opened or anything changed - I'm notified by call first thing, and I have to OK it before it proceeds. - Protecting from spam - From calls, you have the Do not Call list, which is free to sign up to. - Protecting from spam - From mail. There are some nice guides that go over this..this response took awhile since I was reading how to do this..haha So there's my reasons...I wouldn't buy lifelock. I have not signed up for this, nor would consider it. There are a few reasons why:

1) It’s a monthly charge for something you could do roughly every 90 days for free (I’ll get into this more later)
2) I can’t guarantee the security of this company, and while I don’t have a choice on my own personal information in many companies – signing up for another just seems pointless for me.

Lifelock seems to be more of a convenience thing for people, and if you feel the money is worth it then maybe it is…but for me it’s not. Why?

- Protecting your credit – I did this once, because a CD with SSNs were stolen and mine was on it (although unidentified and they think it just went missing) – but I called the credit companies and put a lock on my credit. Any time an account is opened or anything changed – I’m notified by call first thing, and I have to OK it before it proceeds.
- Protecting from spam – From calls, you have the Do not Call list, which is free to sign up to.
- Protecting from spam – From mail. There are some nice guides that go over this..this response took awhile since I was reading how to do this..haha

So there’s my reasons…I wouldn’t buy lifelock.

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