Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft

Identity theft protection is important to maintaining your financial security. Here are some tips on how to maximize your defense against ID theft.

• Enlist the help of professionals. Professional ID theft help is the best way to protect yourself against identity theft. Though you can take many preventive measures on your own, you have a much better chance of success if you recruit experienced and knowledgeable identity theft insurance professionals. It’s true that most of the measures your ID theft protection company will take can be done by an individual, but few people have the time and effort required to do so.
   
• Keep important documents under lock & key. If you have documents containing sensitive personal information, make sure you always keep them in a locked filing cabinet or safe of some kind. Document theft is still one of the most common causes of identity theft, so make sure your documents are not vulnerable.
   
• Shred. Shredding is one of the best ways to prevent identity theft. Any documents you discard that have personal identifying information on them should be shredded. When you sign up for ID theft insurance, your shredding burden will be greatly reduced because we will take you off junk mail lists.
   
• Proceed with caution on the phone. One very successful type of identity theft scam involves identity thieves masquerading as financial institution representatives or government authorities. Identity thieves then dupe consumers into revealing personal information. If you are ever unsure of the legitimacy of the call, don’t take the risk and report identity theft immediately.
   
• Guard your computer. Especially with the popularity of online banking and shopping, computers are a common target for identity thieves. Make sure your computer is password-protected. Keep your passwords separate from your computer.
   
• Be careful on the Internet. Though most sites take adequate precautions for users’ security, the Internet is not 100% safe. If you want to prevent ID theft, it’s a good idea to minimize the transmission of personal information on the Internet. At the very least, make sure the sites you use are encrypted and secure. Another web-based identity theft solution is to avoid storing your credit card numbers and passwords to reduce your risk.
   

Identity Theft Protection - Our Promise

For as little as $10 per month, you can sleep easy knowing that our fraud prevention agents are monitoring all the credit bureaus and reporting companies for tell-tale signs of identity theft. Should something every occur, you will be alerted instantly and any harm that may have been caused can be prevented within minutes rather than months. There is no substitute for the FTC’s advice regarding information protection of course, but in a world where the technology to steal personal information evolves at a feverish pace why would you risk going it alone?