Identity Protection 411

Telluride Fire Protection District chief resigns Gary Whitfield, the Telluride Fire Protection District’s director, resigned little more than a week ago, but details surrounding the long-time director’s departure are unclear. Read more on Telluride Daily Planet

Telluride Fire Protection District chief resigns Gary Whitfield, the Telluride Fire Protection District’s director, resigned little more than a week ago, but details surrounding the long-time director’s departure are unclear. Read more on Telluride Daily Planet

Federal government says new anti-spam laws could be in place by end of year OTTAWA – The long wait for protection against identity theft and anti-spam legislation may be nearing an end. Read more on Kitchener – Waterloo Record

Telluride Fire Protection District chief resigns Gary Whitfield, the Telluride Fire Protection District’s director, resigned little more than a week ago, but details surrounding the long-time director’s departure are unclear. Read more on Telluride Daily Planet

Armagh attack possible mistaken identity Police investigating a gun attack in Armagh on Thursday night have said they believe it may have been a case of mistaken identity. Read more on U TV

Telluride Fire Protection District chief resigns Gary Whitfield, the Telluride Fire Protection District’s director, resigned little more than a week ago, but details surrounding the long-time director’s departure are unclear. Read more on Telluride Daily Planet

Fiscal crises threaten Europe’s generous benefits LONDON — Six weeks of vacation a year. Retirement at 60. Thousands of euros for having a baby. A good university education for less than the cost of a laptop. Read more on Washington Post

Fax scam latest in identity thefts MICHIGAN CITY — Police are warning Indiana business owners of a recurring identity theft tactic sent by fax. Faxed letters appearing on U.S. Department of Transportation letterhead are asking for “authorization to release financial information.” The DOT would never ask this type of question or send this sort of fax, said Sgt. Chris Yagelski of the Michigan City Police Department. Read more on The Michigan City News-Dispatch

We have all heard about identity theft protection companies such as LifeLock, TrustedID, Identity Guard and Debix but few have pointed out the main shortcoming of these services. You see, they only protect you from financial identity theft and while that is extremely important there are other types such as criminal or medical identity theft. Enter ID Watchdog, a publicly traded company, that can not only instantly identify if you are a victim of identity theft but also guarantees to restore your identity regardless if it was a financial, medical or criminal issue.

ID Watchdog scans 1000’s of databases, including all three credit bureaus, DMV, credit applications and medical, to ensure your personal information has not been exposed or changed fraudulently. Initially they develop a baseline report that you approve and then they monitor your personal information and let you know if there are any changes to your baseline report. You can either approve any changes they inform you of or in the case of a fraudulent change you just let them know and they dig deeper in to the case and will do whatever it takes to restore your identity if they find it has been compromised.

The only catch with their service is if they find upon your enrollment that you are already a victim. In this case you would be charged an additional one time charge of $99.95 and then $79.95 for every incident they have to correct to restore your identity. This is very reasonably priced by the way. If the identity theft situation happens after you are enrolled there are no extra fees as you are completely covered under their guarantee.

Recently, ID Watchdog was featured on Identity theft Labs, the most trusted identity theft review site, and received a ranking of excellent putting them in a class that few identity protection companies have achieved. The best part about ID Watchdog’s service is that they are the only identity theft service that not only protects you from financial identity theft but also from other types of identity theft such as medical and criminal. Id Watchdog also has a full identity theft restoration service. Combine that with their 100% success ratio in restoring their customers identities and you see why you have a winner. Few, if any, other companies have had that level of success. ID Watchdog has definitely established themselves as a player in this industry due to their unique and powerful offer.

Speaking of full restoration it should also be mentioned that with Id Watchdog if you do become a victim of identity theft they will do the work necessary to restore your good name. Most other services only provide you with assistance, ranging from poor to professional depending on the company, and you end up doing most of the work. Now that is no fun at all, can be frustrating to say the least, and can take countless hours on your part going through all the red tape bureaucracy. In today’s busy world not many people have time for that.

If you are looking to protect your identity, and really who isn’t given the number of victims every year – 9.9 million Americans according to the Federal Trade Commission, then I highly suggest you take a look at ID Watchdog to determine if they are the right identity protection company for you.