LifeLock, founed in 2005, is a personal fraud protection company. For a fee, the company once every 90 days asks for a fraud alert on your file by calling Experian (1-888-397-3742) or Equifax (1-800-525-6285) or TransUnion (1-800-680-7289) (the three major credit bureaus) who communicate this information to each other. Experian has accused LifeLock "of deceiving consumers about the breadth of its protection and abusing the system for attaching fraud alerts to credit reports."