Identity Theft is a scary thing, and it can happen to anybody. I’m almost paranoid about looking around me when I’m using a credit card in a store, and I wonder about the security of using one when I shop online. Your identity can be stolen by someone in the most innocent seeming circumtances. Then, if it happens, you can spend literally hundreds of hours AND hundreds of dollars cleaning up the mess that the identity thieves left you. And it’s hard to get back your good name after it has been trashed by the thieves. I didn’t realize that most identity theft victims don’t discover the theft until after their stolen identity has been used many times, and after they’ve been turned down for a loan or a collection agency starts calling.
Have you seen or heard the commercial where the president of a company that offers identity theft protection, gives out his social security number because he is so confident that his identity is protected? I heard it just recently and found that the company is Lifelock, and they guarantee their service up to a million bucks, and it’s only ten dollars a month. That’s sounds like a good deal to me for peace of mind.
