Last month my Mother’s-in-law credit cards were stolen from her wallet. The amount of time she had to go into taking care of that mess was crazy. I felt so bad for her. She and my Father-in-law looked into LifeLock since both my husband and I talked to her about it. I’m not sure if they ended up going with the service, but I know that we have! Yesterday I signed myself up for LifeLock and will be signing my husband up this week as well.
The set up for LifeLock was very simple. For some reason there was an error when I tried to set it up online, so I had to call on the phone. I despise being on the phone now, but this was simple and the lady I talked to was very nice. I was on the phone for no more than five minutes getting set up.
You can see the kinds of things it asks you for to protect you once you are set up. It protects credit cards, drivers license, insurance cards, bank accounts, home and email addresses, phone numbers and asks for your Mother’s Maiden name.
LifeLock is dedicated to relentlessly protecting your personal information, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. We provide proactive identity theft protection using innovative technologies that power not only LifeLock but also the world’s most sophisticated surveillance solutions – similar to the technology employed by government intelligence agencies and blue-chip corporations.
More than just a credit monitoring service, LifeLock dives deep to discover the schemes today’s thieves are using to steal personal information, from old-school collection techniques to more advanced technologies. And then we continuously mine this information for threats, alert you when we determine a risk, and work to help educate law enforcement to combat this growing trend. We also offer LifeLock Command Center™ service, an additional Identity Theft Protection plan.
LifeLock lets you know if you have new alerts and will even text you if you have one. I haven’t gotten the texts to work yet on my phone. I’ll have to call LifeLock to find out what’s going on. I’ve had them sent twice and have not received them either time. This is the only big hiccup I’ve seen with the service and I’m sure it’s something to do with my phone and not LifeLock as I’ve been having issues lately with it.
I woke up this morning to this email saying that I’d been removed from the Pre-Approved Credit Card list. I’m glad. I’ve been getting these things in the mail almost daily! It’s only a matter of time before someone snatches it out of my mailbox and somehow gets a card in my name. I’m very impressed with the service and will most likely renew when my year membership is up. I actually want to upgrade both my husband and I to the Ultimate service.
There are three different levels of LifeLock service: LifeLock, LifeLock Ultimate, and LifeLock Credit Score Manager.
LifeLock: $10.00 / month or $110.00 / year
Here’s what is included with your membership:
- Alerts of potential threats–both credit and noncredit related
- Online access to a personalized dashboard showing current threats
- Relentless identity monitoring for exposure of your personal information
- Member services with local phone support—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
- Stolen or lost wallet remediation services to help cancel and replace credit and debit cards*
- Comprehensive recovery services if you become a victim of identity theft on our watch.
- The option to extend your line of defense with
LifeLock Ultimate: $25.00 / month or $275.00 / year
LifeLock Ultimate™ protection includes all services provided by LifeLock® identity theft protection, plus:
- Expanded monitoring of personal information across a comprehensive network of databases
- Enhanced, online reporting of threats
- Advanced checking and savings account application alerts
- 24/7 online access to your annual Tri-Bureau credit reports and monthly TransUnion score
- Surveillance of unregulated global networks and file-sharing sites
- Public record surveillance
- Payday loan monitoring
- Daily monitoring of all 3 credit bureau reports
- Alerts when contact information changes on existing checking and savings accounts
- Guidance to correct accidental disclosure of personal information on file-sharing sites
LifeLock Credit Score Manager $14.95 / month or $165.00 / year
LifeLock Credit Score Manager™ provides important safeguards for monitoring your credit report and managing your credit score:
- Daily monitoring of all three credit bureau reports
- Email alerts as important changes are detected
- Monthly TransUnion credit score tracking
- Annual tri-bureau credit reports and scores
- Unlimited online access to your credit management information
- Assistance, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
How would you like to win one year of the basic LifeLock Membership for one person?
Note: I was given a year membership for one person to LifeLock in exchange for my post. All opinions are my own.
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Monitors your credit report daily
I like the Alerts of potential threats–both credit and noncredit related. Thanks!!
like the email alerts
ardy22 at earthlink dot net
I like the annual free credit reports from the 3 bureaus
we have had $ stolen from our account too! We want protection.
Public record surveillance
e-mail alerts!
I like that it gives you threat alerts.
The daily monitoring of all three credit bureaus interests me the most!
I like that they send you credit reports.
I like that they daily monitor 3 credit bureau reports!