ProtectMyID Review
Anyone who has not noticed the rise in identity theft crimes reported on the news in recent times must be paying paid scant attention to these reports or do not think the problem is sufficiently threatening to them. Let’s look at some statistics and open up those blinkers a bit. Ten million people per year suffer from identity theft and an average of 330 hours per person is spent repairing the damage suffered. That’s an average. The unlucky ones spend thousands of dollars and similar numbers of hours recovering their lives. The world is deluged with this malice and at least 210 billion dollars annually are siphoned off by identity thieves from across the globe. With this frightening news, and the attention the subject now has probably gained, what can be done to combat these impersonators? Fortunately the situation is now mature enough so that companies like ProtectMyID to have been able to develop significant defenses for its clients based on knowledge of how identity thieves operate.
Owned by the respected credit information giant Experian, ProtectMyID have access to a broad knowledge and experience of how the credit systems of the world operate, adding to their pedigree further.
Monitoring
The basis to their services is a fully monitored personal security envelope that reports to them every time a credit card or other payment device is used. Use of social Security numbers to open accounts or arrange credit is tracked in real-time throughout the world and monitoring of e-mails and other online activity is centrally compiled so all this information can be used to profile and detect unauthorized use of your valuable data and enables proactive measures to be taken to prevent losses. Where the thieves do get an upper hand due to the ever changing nature of payment systems, ProtectMyID have a million dollar insurance program in place to keep clients covered.
Credit monitoring is via the 3 main bureaus and even children can be covered as their identity theft has been a growing concern of late.
All these services are offered either as a package deal or alternatively, individual identity protection and monitoring services can be purchased separately.
Who will you be tomorrow?
With Experian backing them and with a comprehensive list of services, it’s hard not to recommend ProtectMyID to anyone – especially those who have yet to digest the risk that they take by not covering themselves from identity theft, this might be the clincher;
Think about who will be you next, and when they are you, what will they do?