Review Summary: ID Watchdog has a 100% identity recovery success rate for its clients.
Pros: In-house agents do most of the work for you, while you have to do the brunt of the work with other companies.
Cons: A little on the expensive side.
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| Pricing | $17.95 a month or $161.95 per year |
| Fraud Alert Maintenance: | Yes - ID Watchdog helps you manually submit fraud alerts with the credit bureaus. |
| Recovery Guarantee: | N/A - ID Watchdog has a 100% success rate restoring identities. Their agents will work tirelessly on your behalf in the event of ID theft, to restore your good name. |
| Black Market Monitoring: | Yes - ID Watchdog scours black market websites for your personal information and takes appropriate action as necessary. |
| Address Change Monitoring: | Yes - ID Watchdog monitors national address databases for any changes in your address (often a red flag that someone may be attempting to redirect your mail, etc). |
| Public Record Monitoring: | Yes - ID Watchdog monitors public records on your behalf. |
| Lost Wallet Recovry: | No - not at this time. |
| Mailing List Removal: | No - not at this time. |
| Free Credit Report: | No - not at this time. |
| Credit Monitoring: | No - not at this time. |
Extensive Monitoring - ID Watchdog monitors 1000's of databases on your behalf, scanning for red flags indicative of ID theft.
Personal Touch - ID Watchdog doesn't offer a monetary recovery guarantee like its competitors, but it has a team of in-house resolution agents that will do whatever it takes to restore your good name, in the event your identity is stolen. AND, they boast a 100% recovery success rate.
Cost - ID Watchdog is a bit more expensive than others.
Some features lacking - We'd like to see a few simple services added like lost wallet recovery and credit monitoring, to broaden the scope of overall service offering by ID Watchdog.
ID Watchdog takes a slightly different approach at identity protection and many people find it very effective and worth the cost.