LifeLock offers several services for a minimal fee and all of them lead to helping to stop identity theft.

Reduce junk mail/credit card offers: many of us want this anyway and have never taken the time to find out how to get off of those pesky lists where they offer you pre-approved credit cards. These are more dangerous now than ever. With so many identity thieves out there, committing a crime is as easy as checking their neighbor’s mailbox!

When you want a credit card, you will let the credit card providers know. It should not be the other way around. If they wanted to help stop identity theft and save tons and tons of paper, they would stop mailing these out anyway.

Walletlock: have an ally to help you get things back in order if your wallet is stolen. They will make the proper phone calls to replace most of the documents lost (driver license, credit cards, bank cards, insurance cards, etc). How much is that worth in itself if this ever happens to you?

Credit Reports: as a part of this service, you will receive a copy of your credit report each year. You can ask for these for free, but chances are that if you try to keep up with this on your own, year after year and you see no problems, you will forget to order. Or, you might lose track of when that year is up.

eRecon (new): a new service that has recently been added to the LifeLock family is eRecon. This service searches through known criminal websites to look for your personal information that might be “on the market.” Yes, selling personal data is big business and now Lifelock is working to eliminate it.

TrueAddress (new): also a new service, TrueAddress will notify you of any changes of address to your file when your personal information is being used. This is so valuable in stopping identity thieves who apply for a new line of credit using their own address!

Now, why wouldn’t you get LifeLock? Use code Defense to get a discount off of the regular price.

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