[Novalug] Totally OT: Identify Theft

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 20:02:20 EDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 09:11 -0700, Subba Rao wrote:
> Anyway, one of my colleagues mentioned the following services which
> will alert you about attempts to rob your identity.
> 
> http://www.lifelock.com/
> http://www.loudsiren.com/
> 
> I believe you can do the same services for free thru the 3 credit
> scoring companies.  Research a little bit on that.

All they do is put a lock on your credit.  And heck, the owner of
LifeLock had his identity stolen, so take that for what it's worth...
The locks are only good if the places bother to check your credit.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
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