About ID monitoring

Today's ultra-connected world has brought many conveniences – instant communication, endless information resources, online shopping and banking – but it has also brought new, very serious, threats.

While there are things you can do to help prevent or recognize identity theft, such as shredding your mail, examining your credit card statements and regularly looking at your credit report, none of these important habits can entirely protect you or your finances.

Consider this:

Even if your personal computer use is limited, vast information about you exists throughout the Internet, on various computer servers and in electronic databases. Even if you do not bank or shop online, you can bet your bank uses a computer network to monitor and keep track of accounts. Government services are almost always available online. Health and educational organizations store information electronically. All it takes is one hacker or one stolen or lost laptop (which does not even need to be yours!) and hundreds of thousands of identities can be seriously compromised.

The worst part? It's completely out of your control.

... Or is it?

Identity monitoring has been used by high level companies to monitor their accounts and information for years. As a consumer product it is relatively new – but more valuable than ever, given the skyrocketing identity theft and online fraud statistics.

An identity monitoring service, such as SpotMyID, trolls the Internet, constantly sniffing out questionable websites, chat rooms, forums, FTP sites and more. These are the places that credit card details are traded, and whole identities are bought and sold. If your personal details show up – this could be your SSN/SIN, credit card or bank account number – your ID is likely just a few clicks away from being misused.

This is where ID monitoring – like that offered by SpotMyID - becomes so useful.

As soon as the ID monitoring service sees your personal information, you'll be notified. SpotMyID sends out instant alerts via email.

If you take the appropriate action quickly – you may need to cancel a credit card or alert a government services agency – you may stop the identity theft or fraud before any major damage is done.

For just pennies a day, SpotMyID offers great insurance and peace of mind. Given that identity theft often takes hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to resolve – if it can ever be resolved – SpotMyID is a small investment for proactive, powerful identity protection.

Get started! Register with SpotMyID and monitor the Internet for 2 pieces of identification or cards for FREE. Or sign on for full protection: SpotMyID will scan the Internet for up to 10 pieces of your valuable identification for one low monthly fee (or get 2 months free when you sign up for a year!)

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