monsters
so I just decided to sign up for lifelock and looked on their site and honestly couldn’t really tell what they did. I knew I needed some kind of ID fraud help, cause as a youth my elementary school got broken into several times and the sad thing about having a name that puts you at the front of the alphabet, that’s what the robbers get you know? 
So I sign up anyway with a deal that gets me a year at 99 bones and I decide to try it out and see what it does. Well first they register fraud alerts on the CR’s, then they have CR’s sent to me. Cool I think, this is easy. Then my CR gets here and I look at it, and I am getting taken to town. There are tickets that have gone to collections, cars that have been purchased, and jewelry that is outstanding (the payments, not the jewels). I’m thinking ahhhh freak. So I drop lifelock an email and this dude calls and says hey, we can’t sick the dogs on em because this stuff happened before you got with us, but I’ll jump on the phone with you and we can knock all these out together to get you where you need to be. So there’s this pro chasing down these creditors that aren’t using any fraud detection stuff, and in one night, we get paperwork done on all of them. So I guess for 10 bones a month, not too shabby. The trick will be if it actually gets it off my record and clears my name eh’? I’ll keep you posted.
In the meantime, take a look at your own reports and make sure you’re all up to par. And thus, the moral.
I’ve always wondered how legit that was. Keep us all informed, I’ve been getting lots of calls on my phone from random internet companies lately that I KNOW I didn’t give my info to… makes me a little nervous.
Holy Smokes Batman! Reading stories like this makes me LUUUUUUUVVVVVVVV my husband. We check our credit report annually by just going to each of the agency sites. Your allowed one free a year per person. I can’t imagine if we weren’t checking where we would be. I have such a wonderful husband who has always been on top of this stuff! Thank Goodness. Let us know if this company was able to clear your name!
So Al That’s INSANE! Holy Cow! Good luck with all that! Yeah I’ve had to do the CR thing a lot because I’ve had my SS# stolen a couple times along with other things… but strangely there is never a problem. I’m just grateful. It’s good your seeing this now though so it can be stopped. I’m with Steph and try to check it once a year at least. I also have something on there where they have to call me if anyone is applying for credit before it can be approved… kind of annoying sometimes as I had to call them a couple of times while trying to get my cell phone but atleast I know no one else is using it.
Holy Crap, i need to get mine checked