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Prepared for Maddie C. | Delivered March 23, 2020
Identity Protection: Best Practices & Services
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Goals
To identify the best practices and services for identity protection (phone number, home address, credit score, social security).
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Early Findings
Best Practices for Identity Protection (Used by Most Celebrities)
Getting Unlisted:
One of the first things celebrities do is remove their information from local and public databases. There are a
lot of steps
that this involves.
Getting off Google Maps: Another thing that many public figures do is ask Google to
erase your home's 'Street View'
on Google Maps.
Paying in Cash
: Celebrities also pay for most of their services in cash.
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helps because identity thieves have a lot of incentive to defraud a celebrity, and card skimming schemes are perpetrated mostly by cashiers at department stores.
Identity Theft Protection Services
: Public figures can also choose to pay identity theft protection companies that put in all the legwork to ensure their identities are secure.
Apart from the aforementioned,
a lot of small steps
can be taken to safeguard one's identity.
Identity Theft Protection Services
IdentityForce
IdentityForce offers protection against
IRS Tax Fraud & Identity Theft
as well as
Medical
& Child Identity Theft and
Credit Card Fraud
.
They currently have
2 plans on sale
, the Ultra Secure ($14.99 per month) and the Ultra Secure + Credit ($19.99 per month).
All plans offer identity recovery and identity theft insurance cover to the tune of $1 million.
Identity Guard
Identity Guard provides email and text alerts with ID verification and monitoring as well as $1 million identity theft insurance.
They have
3 individual and 3 family plans
, all billed annually
Their individual identity theft protection plans cost between $7.50 and $20.83 per month, while their family plans cost between $12.50 and $29.17 a month.
IDShield
As well as privacy and identity protection, IDShield provides
reputation management and identity restoration services
.
They have
four products
that cost between $12.95 and over $19.99 per month.
They also offer
social security number monitoring
,
credit report dispute resolution, dark web surveillance, identity restoration services, 401k account monitoring, credit monitoring across 1 to 3 bureaus, and sex offender monitoring and alerts, among others
.
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