You don’t need Keeley Hawes or Aidan Gillen to keep you safe from identity theft and online fraud

Tuesday, 6th July, 2010 - Anyone who watched last night’s first episode of the new ITV series, Identity, staring Keeley Hawes and Aidan Gillen will probably be feeling a little more paranoid this morning. Therefore the online identity theft and fraud experts at Garlik have today launched a new, free email checker service, allowing anyone who is now worried about falling victim to identity theft or online fraud to check whether their personal information has been stolen, copied or disclosed online in the last 90 days.

Garlik's award winning DataPatrol service alerts individuals if their identity is at risk of being stolen or if they are about to fall victim to identity and financial fraud. It does this by continually scanning the online world looking for places where personal information has been stolen or disclosed, immediately alerting the individual in question and advising on what action needs to be taken. DataPatrol customers also benefit from Garlik Care, a fraud assistance service, which means someone will be there to help if something does go wrong … and they won't have to languish in prison waiting for Keeley and the team to turn up before anyone will believe that they’re an innocent victim.

Finally, no information provided for the email check will be retained by Garlik for any other purpose, and the information will only be used to perform the check requested.

DataPatrol is available direct from Garlik at www.garlik.com and until 31st August, 2010, a 12-month subscription to DataPatrol can be purchased for £19.99, rather than the usual £45.00. To use the email checker service please visit: http://www.garlik.com/incident.

Garlik also distribute DataPatrol through a select group of partners. In the UK, RBS Royalties Private and NatWest Advantage Private customers can get DataPatrol as an inclusive account benefit (see http://www.rbs.co.uk/private.ashx or http://www.natwest.com/private.ashx for details). Sky customers can buy DataPatrol as part of Sky Identity Patrol at http://sp.sky.com/identitypatrol/register and CPP customers can buy DataPatrol as part of their world leading identity theft protection services at http://www.cpp.co.uk/identity-protection. Selftrade, one of the UK's largest execution-only stockbrokers, also offers customers DataPatrol through its Selftrade Identity Monitor service (see www.selftrade.co.uk).