With WalletLock, life goes on
LifeLock is forever developing new ways of fending off identity thieves. Their newest product, WalletLock, does that and more.
If you ever lose your wallet or purse, WalletLock replaces the documents that were in it. The service is free with any LifeLock plan, but its real value is best understood within the context of a real-life experience.
My husband and I were in Rome. We’d been warned about pickpockets and thieves, but we considered ourselves well-traveled enough to avoid becoming victims.
We were on a crowded bus, both of us straphanging. Between us was a little girl, maybe six years old. She wore several layers of raggedy clothes, and her dark, curly hair was matted. She had an expression of absolute concentration.
As I watched, her small, dirty hand slowly reached toward my husband’s coat pocket. I waited until her hand was fully inside his pocket before I tapped him on the shoulder and smilingly pointed to the pickpocket in progress.
He laughed and playfully shook his finger at her, then gently removed the girl’s little hand from around his wallet. Looking back up at me, he laughed harder and pointed to the purse slung securely across my chest, but dangling near my hip. Submerged into the depths of my bag was a larger hand attached to a boy of maybe 10 years old. He had the same olive skin, dark curly hair and layered, ragged clothes.
We came that close to being robbed. If we’d been less fortunate, we would have found ourselves in a foreign country with no money, no credit cards, no passports, no visas, no identification, no train tickets and a barely-functional command of the language.
If we’d had WalletLock, we could have used their toll-free number to report the theft, and they would have quickly begun making things right. Emergency funds would be wired, the American embassy contacted for new passports and visas. Old credit cards would be canceled immediately, and new credit cards, insurance cards and drivers’ licenses would be sent to us by overnight delivery. Any chance of identity theft would have been thwarted by LifeLock’s fraud alerts.
Lost and stolen wallets and purses are still the most common source of information for identity theft. That’s why LifeLock, the company with the $1,000,000 total service guarantee, provides WalletLock at no charge to all of their customers. With WalletLock, life goes on.
