2014 Identity Theft Protection Buyers Guide

Provide some basic information about yourself and you can sign up for Protect My ID – an Experian company. (One of many!). The service will protect your identity by monitoring your social security number, credit accounts and address. The dashboard is extremely user friendly and easy to use.

ProtectMyID offers three different "Surveillance Alerts": Internet Scan, Change of Address Alerts, and Credit Alerts. The Internet Scan feature monitors what Experian calls "a vast number of online sources" where compromised credit and debit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other personal data is found, traded or sold. To activate this protection, you need to manually add the cards you'd like protected, and Experian limits you to three. If you have more cards than that, you're out of luck, unfortunately.

What is Identity Theft?

Identity theft is the act of stealing someone’s identity usually for the purposes of opening fraudulent credit card accounts, loans or other benefits under another person’s name and information.

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