How do any of the identity protection services protect you if that happens?
Here’s the OP of an old thread of mine. It has pie:
The LifeLock guy’s SSN has been used to steal his identity multiple times :
Some is not all. Some is not even most.He played around and got burned.
Davis acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that his stunt has led to at least 87 instances in which people have tried to steal his identity, and one succeeded: a guy in Texas who duped an online payday loan operation last year into giving him $500 using Davis’ Social Security number.
$500 is chump change but it goes to prove the point: LifeLock isn’t what it sets out to be.
He didn’t get an alert beforehand because the company didn’t go through one of the three major credit bureaus before approving the transaction.
Davis said it’s possible driver’s licenses have been issued to other people in his name because of the widespread availability of his personal information – and because of what he described as the flimsy mechanisms in place to report that kind of fraud.
Thus we see that LifeLock cannot possibly do what it is claimed to do . The system LifeLock is built on isn’t that good.
Read the whole article. LifeLock does things you can do yourself for free, and it doesn’t do them any better than you could.
Here is some pie. Dark, bittersweet pie. With Kahlua and molasses.
I bolded the main part: LifeLock is only as good as the system it works on top of, and relies on, and that system isn’t good enough to be perfect or close to it.