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Lifelock has a bad reputation and there are many lawsuits and a class action lawsuit against them...according to the lawsuits, they have done a bunch of crappy stuff, such as advertise guarantees that they do not honor, and charge fees for stuff that you can do yourself.
In addition, one of Lifelock's founders was charged with identity theft himself...apparently he stole his father's ID and ran up a bunch of bills on it...a real lowlife.
Google this for more info.
I had my Identity stolen last year, when someone tried to steal money out of an ETrade account I had. Etrade was very sketchy and uncooperative with me and wouldnt tell me exactly what this person had, in terms of my personal data.
So....(as mentioned above) what I did was put a "credit freeze" on my credit with the 3 reporting bureaus. It was free because I had a police report, but costs $10 each service if you just want to put one on (and were not yet a victim of an actual crime). What the freeze does, is does not allow anyone to even access your credit files via your SS#, and does not allow anyone to open credit on your SS#...
You can, however have a temporary 10 day lapse in the freeze, if you want to open credit under your SS#...this costs $10 and they give you a 10 digit security number which you use to access you file, they drop the freeze for 10 days and then it goes back on again.
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