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Lifelock is a company that works to protect the identity of individuals who pay for their services. They educate the consumer on taking control over who uses their identity and what it is used for. Upon education they perform the necessary services to ensure that individuals rights are protected. They charge their clients $10 per month to take the measures necessary to protect their clients from identity theft. All of the services provided by Lifelock can be performed on your own to protect your own identity.
Lifelock contacts the credit bureaus and notifys them that your social security number and credit information were used fraudulently. They then contact the credit bureaus again every 90 days and request that they put fraud alerts on your account. Then, they request that your name be removed from pre-approved credit card junk mail lists and they continue to make the requests as they expire. Studies have proven that this is one of the most common methods of stolen identity. They order your credit reports on your behalf and they are then sent directly to you. This is done once a year- just as you can request one free yourself. Lifelock even offers such services as WalletLock which includes full service support if your wallet is stolen or lost- they’ll help you to contact all of the credit card, bank, or document issuing companies and cancel accounts and take all necessary measures to get you new cards, and issued documents.
Lifelock guarantees that if your identity is stolen while utilizing their services they will do everything to repair your credit. They’ll even pay attorney fees, and lost moeny due to their mistake. They guarantee that if anything happens while using their services they will spend up to $1,000,000 to solve your problems and meet all of their clients individual needs. LifeLock is a saftey precaution to be used to prevent identity theft.