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NextAdvisor reviews Identity Truth
Posted by Joe on April 22nd, 2008
This week we launched a brand new review of a brand new identity theft protection service called Identity Truth. While Identity truth isn't perfect, we do believe it is a good service that has taken a unique approach to protecting the identities of their customers.
Where Identity Truth shines is in their unique use of technology to monitor your identity through a variety of sources. The service uses information from your Experian credit report as well as other account information, such as credit card and bank account information that you provide, and actively monitors your identity for suspicious activity. Identity Truth also provides up-to-date information on data breaches in the United States. This includes a searchable database of data breaches by company so that you can see if you may be at risk.
Identity Truth does not offer managed fraud alerts the way LifeLock does, but their online interface gives subscribers clear instructions on how to set fraud alerts at all three of the credit bureaus. While this information is helpful, the lack of fraud alerts means that Identity Truth users need to actively reset their alerts every 90 days themselves.
Additionally, Identity Truth offers single bureau credit monitoring of your Experian credit report. While this is certainly better than some services that provide no credit report monitoring at all, it would be better if Identity Truth were able to provide three bureau monitoring like Identity Guard Total Protection does.
We recommend that consumers interested in the Identity Truth service sign up for either the one year ($99.00) or three year ($229.99) plans. Not only do these plans represent a significant value over the $9.99 per month plan but they also come with a 30 day free trial which the the monthly plan does not.
If you are interested in learning more about Identity Truth and how it stacks up against the other identity theft protection services we have reviewed, please visit our identity theft protection service provider guide.
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June 24th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
[...] NextAdvisor reviews Identity Truth [...]
August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Identity Theft is owned by Provell, Inc. which does business as WC VAlue Plus (among others) and is listed as a SCAM alert because of fraudulent credit card charges. GOOGLE Provell, WC Value Plus and you will see what I mean. You may want to think twice before trusting this company with your private information
August 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Hi Am,
You are wrong. We have done extensive research on the topic as a result of a charge by a previous commenter on another Identity Truth related blog post. Identity Truth is neither owned nor operated by Provell or any of the companies you have listed in your comment.
I don't know whether you made an honest mistake or if you are attempting to deliberately mislead the readers of this blog. However, please make sure you have your facts straight before you slander a company like Identity Truth.
Thank you,
Joe Fahrner
NextAdvisor.com
August 19th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Must have misunderstood search results while Googling these companies. I will research further.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Hi Am,
Thank you very much for the note. I appreciate you taking the time to post another comment qualifying your answer.
For what it is worth, we have reviewed dozens of identity theft protection companies and think that Identity Truth is one of the best at what that do. In fact, we recently awarded Identity Truth with a five star rating which is reserved for the top services in any category we review.
Thank you,
Joe Fahrner
NextAdvisor.com
May 5th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
How many companies are called Identity truth? I got a message from Identity truth@secure.ide and am wondering if they are a legit company? I have never enrolled with Identity Truth but they are telling me to look up my Identity acct because somebody is trying to get my info. I am wondering how legit they are?
Thanks
Dawn