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Identity theft can strike anyone, anywhere at anytime. And the culprit is someone known by the victim in about 26% of all cases. A prime example is a recent case from Dubuque, Iowa.

An employee at Bath and Body Works was arrested this week and admitted to committing identity theft. Shacara Hudson, 21, used a fellow employee’s personnel file to obtain all the information she needed to open a new credit card account in her coworker’s name. Before she was done, she had charged $23,795 on the account.

When you’re considering your risk for identity theft, you have to consider the people you work with as potential threats to your security. How well do you know them? How many of them have access to your personnel file? How many of them have access to your purse or laptop?

And as if the people who are part of our everyday lives aren’t enough to worry about, there are all the corporate and government data breaches that have exposed hundreds of millions of personal and financial records.

There are steps you can take to protect your identity and your finances – shred your mail, be wary of phone calls and e-mails from strangers – but for real identity theft protection, you need the comprehensive services of LifeLock.Visit their website at LifeLock.com, and read the “How LifeLock Works” page. Read the stories of Zach, Kim, Aaron, Earl and Bobby Jo. Each of them has been a victim of identity theft, and chose LifeLock to keep it from ever happening to them again. Just like nearly 1.5 million other members, they know they can trust LifeLock.

If you have any questions about how the service works, send an email or give them a call and a customer service representative will see that your question is answered promptly.

When you’re ready to enroll in LifeLock’s ID protection services, you can do it online or over the phone. You can pay by the month or by the year. Just be sure to use the LifeLock promotional code Defense to get the very best pricing available.

Tags: LifeLock, LifeLock identity theft protection, Workplace identity theft

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