Equifax and Its Credit Identity Theft Protection Services

Monitoring your very own accounts can be tedious for most busy individuals, aside, of course, from the fact that your access to your records is very limited. This is why, sometimes, conducting an identity theft check on your own is not enough, as some may not be brought into your attention.

This is why Equifax has devised a couple of different products that can help you protect yourself from being a victim of identity theft. Here is a list of their different packages available:

1. Equifax ID Patrol. This service offers the monitoring of all three of your credit reports; alerting you of significant changes and activities on any of the accounts; monitoring of your personal information on the web, alerting you whenever someone tries to use your identity for some shady transaction; access to identity theft resolution specialists; and a million dollar insurance if their product fails to deliver their promises. Another additional benefit from this product: the ability to lock and unlock your credit reports whenever you want, giving you control on who gets to access your information.

2. Equifax Credit Watch Gold. A couple of bucks cheaper than the ID Patrol, the Credit Watch Gold offers you daily monitoring of your credit report from the company; unlimited access to your very own Equifax credit reports; access to its customer support department, any time, any day; and up to $250,000 insurance if their product fails to deliver.

3. Equifax Credit Watch Gold Family Program. This product has the same features just like the Equifax Credit Watch Gold's , but with the additional of letting you send it to your family members and have them register their own information, allowing them to be identity theft protected like you.

4. Equifax Credit Watch Gold with 3-in-1 Monitoring Family Program. This product will monitor all of your three credit reports and alert you if a suspicious activity is happening on your account, and offers up to a million dollars of insurance if the product fails. Also, this product lets you to share your very own identity theft protection service to your family members in the fight against the destructive crime.

The family programs must be noted, though, that you need to do a couple of steps before you can include your loved ones in your purchasing of the product. Step one would be to click the button that will then require you to enter your family members' contact information so Equifax can send them the product certificates of whatever package you've paid for. Once the messages are sent, their information can already be protected by the product as well.

5. Equifax Credit Report Control. Apart from protecting you from credit identity theft, this product, with its benefits that will allow you to lock your records away from the access of others, can also help you guarantee approved loans and credit cards.

So, if you are really serious on your fight against credit identity theft, take your identity theft check a notch higher, and consider getting any of the products that can prevent your identity from being stolen.