Charlotte Sometimes Blogs

Identity theft really is a serious issue even if you’re one of those people who just laugh at it. I know lots of people who think like that. Some of them even say, “Good luck to any thief trying to get credit in my name!” You might be surprised at just how clever identity thieves are with using your information.

Listen to this story that happened recently. Over this past summer, Trissina Neal of Killeen, Texas had someone turn on electrical power in her name in the same town she lives in. Then they skipped out on the bill. Now Ms. Neal doesn’t have electricity at her house. Why? Well, because the power company doesn’t believe her when she says that other bill isn’t hers. So they shut off her power because of non-payment. How inconvenient is that?

After showing the electric company her current lease, they blew her off saying she probably had just moved. That’s the problem with identity theft. You’re automatically assumed guilty and a deadbeat when those unpaid bills show up. You have to jump through hoops to clear your name. Now this woman has to lose time from work, not to mention the aggravation, to prove she never lived at the address with the unpaid bill.

That’s one of the reasons I have LifeLock id theft protection. If this happened to me, all I’d have to do is call LifeLock and they would take care of this for me. Actually, it probably would never have even happened because of the way they protect me from id thieves. It’s very difficult to open an account in my name. Heck, it’s difficult to open an account in the name of LifeLock’s CEO – and he publishes his social security number just to prove it.

The small membership fee I pay is well worth it to me to know I have this type of company standing behind me. I got a LifeLock discount and it lowered the cost even more.