National CyberSecurity Awareness Month: LifeLock Review & Giveaway!

Every Octo­ber 31st, chil­dren and adults get to put on cos­tumes and pre­tend to be some­thing else, just for one night. But some peo­ple would like to pre­tend to be YOU…all the time! Crim­i­nals steal people’s iden­ti­ties every day.  A scary thought indeed!!

If you’re not in the spooky spirit, think about this: Did you know that Octo­ber is also National Cyber­Se­cu­rity Aware­ness Month and National Crime Pre­ven­tion Month? Have you noticed how much more often you’re shar­ing your credit card info online these days? And for that mat­ter, how much more per­sonal infor­ma­tion you’re shar­ing online? Each year around the hol­i­days most of us are doing a lot of shop­ping, book­ing travel arrange­ments, and cel­e­brat­ing the sea­son by mak­ing a dona­tion to a char­ity that’s dear to us. And more than ever, most of us are mak­ing those trans­ac­tions online, via a credit or debit card.

Accord­ing to LifeLock.com, “iden­tity theft is one of the fastest grow­ing crimes in the nation. In 2010, over 8 mil­lion Amer­i­cans fell vic­tim to iden­tity theft – that’s more than the entire pop­u­la­tion of the state of Vir­ginia”. This is extra scary to me, as I live in a state with a very high inci­dence of iden­tity theft.

Thank­fully, Life­Lock is there to help ensure that all of your infor­ma­tion is safe & secure. They pledge to pro­tect your infor­ma­tion 24 hours a day, 365 days a year! Plus, they offer a $1 mil­lion guar­an­tee should you fall vic­tim while under their protection.

Life­Lock has a vari­ety of mem­ber­ship plans to choose from. I just got signed up with the basic Life­Lock plan and it incudes all of this:

• Alerts of poten­tial threats–both credit and non­credit related
• Online access to a per­son­al­ized dash­board show­ing cur­rent threats
• Relent­less mon­i­tor­ing for expo­sure of your per­sonal information
• Mem­ber ser­vices with local phone support—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
• Stolen or lost wal­let reme­di­a­tion ser­vices to help can­cel and replace credit and debit cards
• Com­pre­hen­sive recov­ery ser­vices if you become a vic­tim of iden­tity theft on our watch.

How’s that for extra peace of mind?  I think it is going to be great to have some­one watch­ing over my iden­tity and let­ting me know of any threats or con­cerns! Would YOU like that extra peace of mind as well?

To help pro­tect you from the “tricks” of ID thieves, Life­Lock would like to “treat” one lucky Mom Endeav­ors’ reader to a one-year sub­scrip­tion to the Life­Lock service!

Give­away

One lucky Mom Endeav­ors reader will win a one-year $110 value Life­Lock ser­vice. (U.S. Res­i­dents only)

To Enter:

Use the Raf­fle­copter form below to sub­mit entries. To enter, click the but­ton that says, “Do it!”, and then com­plete that spe­cific task. Each time you do this, you get one entry. Then con­tinue on, and do as many (or as few) tasks as you like. ONE LUCKY WINNER gets the mem­ber­ship!
a Raf­fle­copter give­away

 

Dis­clo­sure: I received a Life­Lock ser­vice as describec above for par­tic­i­pat­ing in this cam­paign. How­ever, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are entirely my own.