Friday, May 4, 2007

Insurance for Identity Theft

At one time, we had policyholders offer coverage for life, health, pet, travel and automobile, but nowadays policyholders have included identity theft, since millions are fallen victim each year.

Each year we as citizens pay billions of dollars out of our pockets combined to make up for identity theft. With each act of criminal, our prices of food, gas, products and even utilities increase. Few services are available to help persons keep track of their information, however the services comes with a price and may or may not be necessary. Few services such as Citi Credit Monitoring Service might be worth looking into since the site is secure and the company guarantees your privacy will enabling you to view your accounts and files regularly. The service is relatively low and might become useful over time.

Few companies offer identity theft insurance that includes software. The software supposedly helps track identity theft activities and offers support and help in the event you become a victim of theft. Your FICO score and other options for monitoring identity theft are also available with the software.

Thus, getting insurance coverage may become one of the valuable purchases you will ever make. Unfortunately, when a person becomes a victim of identity theft they may also become the victim of the court systems, companies, and others. Millions around the world that has become victims of identity theft and few of these people have gone to court, fought to restore their identity more than 60 hours per week, and so forth. When you become a victim of identity theft, the theft has access to open banking accounts in your name, apply for credit cards, utilize your current accounts, commit crimes in your name, escape crimes in your name and so forth. When the curtain comes down you are the one that is often persecuted further by the courts, creditors, society and employers.

The world is filled with ignorant people that could care less what happens to someone else, until a crime is committed against him or her of the same nature. Most people go around believing they criminals only target foolish people, or people deserving of the crime. Thus, these people are the foolish ones that have no idea what, their future holds for them, since identity theft is ever increasing and each year millions of people out of about 5.5 billion people worldwide become targets of identity theft.

If you are a doctor, lawyer, cop, pharmacist, judge, politician, poor, technician and so forth you may become the next victim. Likewise, politicians, judges, lawyers, cops, doctors and other professions are subject to steal your identity at any given time. Criminals are often educated individuals with the few being poor. In fact, most criminals will work toward a degree in a specific well-respected career in order to gain access to information. Thus, the ones that you think are respected may very well be the ones you need keep an eye on. After studying Criminal Law, I learned that the poor people are merely scapegoats to cover up who the real criminals are. Most poor criminals engage in petty crimes and often avoid crimes that will send them to prison. The souls often need help rather than jail to recover from their behavior patterns and problems.

Therefore, insurance can come in handy, since you never know whom the criminal is, no more than you know whether you will be the next victim of a crime. Insurance usually costs a few dollars per month, or else the policyholder may include software for a one-time fee.

Recent laws were setup in certain states, including bans on social security numbers. In other words, companies in certain states are not allowed to publicize customer’s socials. Thus, the statistics on identity theft showed in this law that “hackers’ gained access to thousands of personal information abroad the Internet from company ‘databases’ that were said to be secured. Therefore, taking all precautions to protect your identity is foremost than taking a few steps in saving your life from ongoing stress and misery.

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