You’ve been waiting for it all year: surreptitiously checking airfare at work, grilling friends about the best hotels and restaurants or cruising cruise schedules.
Obviously you’ve given a lot of thought to your vacation, but did you ever think someone could steal your identity while you travel?
We got ya covered with a five-minute solution.
First of all, consider getting LifeLock. There are a dozen good reasons to enroll, but for the vacation or business traveler, WalletLock is reason enough. WalletLock help protect LifeLock members by helping to replace financial and government-issued document if—God forbid—their wallets are lost or stolen.
That long list includes credit cards, bankcards, checks, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, birth certificates and passports. You can call one of LifeLock’s certified Identity Theft Risk Specialists 24/7 and they’ll help you get your documents replaced before identity thieves have a chance to use them.
Next, clean out your wallet and you won’t have to worry about replacing half that stuff.
- Take out your Social Security card, checks, and birth certificate. Lock all of it up in a safe or lockbox at home.
- Carry only one credit card.
- Put your mail on “postal hold” instead of “vacation hold” so not even your mail carrier knows how long you’ll be gone.
- Stop your newspaper and water deliveries.
- Don’t take bills with you to catch up on bookkeeping.
- Use the hotel safe to lock up your passport, laptop, PDA and anything else that might identify you. Make user your digital data is encrypted.
Visit LifeLock.com to learn more about WalletLock. Use the LifeLock promotion code DEFENSE and you’ll get 30 days of free coverage and pay only $9 a month for the rest of the year.
At the end of the 30-day free period, your card will be automatically billed $9 monthly unless you cancel within that first 30-day period. You can cancel anytime without penalty by calling 1-800-LIFELOCK. This offer is for new LifeLock members only.
Someone stole my wallet (and diamond earrings) from a Florida hotel room in 1999. My mom had to wire me $1,000 to pay for my room and airfare so I could get back. I meant to pay her back, but the thief spent another $11,000 on new credit cards.
I’ve been researching Debix, IDWatchdog and LifeLock. This WalletLock thing cinches it for me.