# LifeLock Doesn't Work (pure schadenfreude remix) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifelock-doesnt-work-pure-schadenfreude-remix/450326 "2008-05-23T03:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifelock-doesnt-work-pure-schadenfreude-remix/450326/1 "2008-05-23T03:57:05Z")
[The LifeLock guy’s SSN has been used to steal his identity multiple times](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Identity-Fraud-Flap.html?_r=1&oref=slogin): > [@](#): > > Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver’s licenses at least 20 times using Davis’ Social Security number, though _ **some** _ of the applications may have been rejected because data in them didn’t match what the Social Security Administration had on file. Some is not all. Some is not even most. > [@](#): > > 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. He played around and got burned. $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.](http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004492.html) Dark, bittersweet pie. With Kahlua and molasses. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lifelock-doesnt-work-pure-schadenfreude-remix/450326)._