Just go with Equifax. Easy, reliable.
]]>That's pretty misleading, Ben. Shame on you.
]]>The Clark County (Las Vegas) DA has an entire unit dedicated to collecting on these markers. I worked a summer as a Law Clerk for the Clark County Public Defender, and I helped defend _loads_ of these cases (I'd say at least 3 or so a day in my court, so multiply it by 10 courtrooms, every day).
]]>Great post Ben but the real story is the unpaid gambling debts. Now dont get me wrong, a man can rack up $16K in gambling debts and still have my trust, but to lie about it and turn it into a sales pitch? That there is a bit beyond for me.
]]>I laughed my ass off when I first saw this commercial. What a freakin' scam. I'd rather have my identity stolen.
]]>"Maynard did, in fact, spend a week in jail in 2003 because of an unpaid $16,000 casino marker drawn from the Mirage.
It was Maynard's marker. The casino took a copy of his Arizona driver's license when he took out the loan.
There was no identity theft."
]]>See how easily we're impressed by a big,round number ?
Thats this company's marketing plan (along with pimping this goober's SSN).
I looked into this. There is nothing here that you can't do for yourself with a little bit of effort.(Indeed,the company all but admits this in its interviews with the media) Fraud alerts ,credit freezes and the like are things that are better not left to strangers.
Another "magic bullet" that keeps us from getting up off the couch and doing it ourselves.
]]>The article states that casinos are lenient about it if you eventually pay them back, which Maynard did; he paid them because it wasn't identity theft, it was his debt. What's weird is that he didn't use a credit card, which might have meant no jail time, but maybe he was already pushing his limits then.
]]>Because Las Vegas is one of the identity-theft capitals of the world - right up there with the Phoenix metro area - Clark County provides a "forgery packet" to anyone claiming to be a victim. A claim like Maynard's would have been investigated thoroughly, Zadrowski maintains.]]>"Not once did anybody ever suggest, in this particular case, that this was a case of stolen identity," he says.
Maynard never filed a police report for identity theft, or it would be part of the D.A.'s office file, Zadrowski says.
And it should be noted that he had the bad loan was, according to the article, because someone had stolen his identity. The OP makes it seems like he was in jail for actually being in debt to a casino, which he wasn't.
]]>Me and you both, I even checked their website and it seemed affordable. Finally my cheapness has saved me
]]>Other who hyped LifeLock include Rush, Fred Thompson, Paul Harvey, Dr. Laura, and Howard Stern. And, according to a blog from Pheonix I stumbled over, LifeLock received at least some startup funding from VC's who helped fund Google (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) & Skype (Bessemer Venture Partners). I can't confirm that, but it appears that LifeLock managed to scam a great number of people into both using their service, funding their company & stumping for them. And to think it actually sounded like such a good idea!
]]>The service is what again? Pay a guy to watch for someone stealing your identity, the main result of that theft being that they take money from you? hmmm... sounds like racketeering to me. (Pay me money or this will happen to you, which will also cost you money).
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