April 2022

April 20, 2022

ID Theft Protection for Your Clients

Are you taking advantage of the opportunity by offering ID Theft Protection for your Clients and their employees? Your clients are relying on you to provide the most comprehensive, relevant, value-adding benefits that their employees want and need. With the addition of identity theft protection to your portfolio, you will be stepping out in front of your competition with this high-demand benefit. Strengthen Your Client Relationship You are the advisor and your clients trust you to offer the best employee benefit programs. Offering defend-id will demonstrate your professionalism and your thoughtfulness regarding current market trends and demands. As their agent, you will be offering a timely, valuable and relevant benefit. Don’t Blend in with the Rest Differentiate yourself from your competition, the ones you are fighting with to get that new account, and the ones you are fighting off to keep your current ones. Offering defend-id differentiates you! Employers need […]

April 14, 2022

Service Level Standards and Testimonials

Brian Thompson Identity Theft

Fully Managed Recovery is the most important pillar of what we do here at defend-id. We take Service Level Standards and Client testimonials very seriously. It is important to ensure that everyone we cover has peace of mind, knowing they have someone who will take care of any identity issue they encounter. All the credit goes to our team of recovery experts who are getting amazing results. Service Level Standards 2022 Q1 Fully Managed Recovery Testimonials “I am so pleased as to how my call was handled, the knowledge the representative had and all that was done while I was on the initial phone call. As a victim of unemployment insurance fraud. I would not have known where to start with putting a stop to someone using my social security number and other info to commit identity theft. The Dark Web report is nothing less than Amazing as it […]

April 6, 2022

IDENTITY THEFT LOSSES TOTALED $52 BILLION, AFFECTING 42 MILLION U.S. ADULTS

Brian Thompson Identity Theft

The just-released 2022 Javelin Strategy Annual Identity Fraud Study found that identity theft losses totaled $52 billion and affecting 42 million U.S. adults in 2021. The Javelin study also reported the following: 1 in 20 Americans were victims of fraud in 2021. The average per-victim loss from traditional identity theft and fraud rose to $1,551. The average per-victim loss from identity fraud scams was $1,029. More than half (54%) of fraud victims want their financial institution to offer a fraud prevention resource center to help them resolve their identity theft and fraud event. Consumers expressed an interest in receiving more fraud prevention education from their financial institutions as well as identity protection services. The 2021 statistics show individuals and businesses are unprepared for the tactics criminals are deploying in our modern, digital-first world. Since identity theft and fraud is constantly evolving, how does the 2022 Javelin Study reflecting 2021 statistics compare […]