Before you decide to sign up for their identity theft service, be sure to get a LifeLock promo code. You can use LifeLock promo code DEFENSE to get a special discounted promotion for our readers. Obviously, buying the service for a year will save you even more money than paying for it by the month. However you decide to use it, this LifeLock promo code will save you money.

Why use LifeLock? Are you concerned that you might become a victim of identity theft? Have you already placed fraud alerts on your credit? Most of us haven’t and signing up for LifeLock is a way to have alerts placed and then renewed regularly. You can do this yourself, but LifeLock is available to you so that they can do the work for you. It’s a very low fee to pay to help protect your credit.

In addition to doing that, LifeLock offers many other services that prove them to be one of the leaders in helping to protect members from becoming victims of identity theft. WalletLock is included in the membership and is for those who need help replacing documents that were in a lost or stolen wallet. eRecon and TrueAddress are among their newest services and are in place to help keep your personal information, well, personal!

Do you really have to worry about your identity being stolen or is it just a lot of hype on the internet? Our research has shown that data breaches are reported on a regular basis. This is when the database of a company, school or other organization has their data either stolen or accessed by a computer hacker. The hackers are able to view personal information for thousands, even millions, depending on where they were able to hack into. Your social security or credit card number could be one of the pieces of information that they steal, along with your name and address. After that, it’s easy for them to open new credit or set up a fake account and do a lot of financial damage. This can happen even without LifeLock, however, this service makes it less likely of happening because of their goal to assist in stopping identity theft.

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