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My Two Hours With Bill Gates
Jun 27, 2008 by Tom Fragala
This is a story of how I once spent two hours sitting with Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. Since Bill retired today as a full-time employee at Microsoft, I thought I would finally recount it here. It was not a...
Truston Wins 2008 Product Innovation Award
Jun 17, 2008 by Tom Fragala
I am pleased to announce that Truston received a 2008 Product Innovation Award from Network Products Guide for our myTruston Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. The Network Products Guide said, in giving the award, “Truston's innovative SaaS platform offers an organized approach...
Truston Named One of Leading Start-up Companies
May 1, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Truston has been named one of the 2008 10 Companies to Watch by the Pacific Coast Business Times. This was part of the Business Times' annual awards program called the 101 One Hundred Awards. The 10 Companies to Watch were...
Truston Wins Info Security Products Guide Award
Apr 9, 2008 by Tom Fragala
After being named a 2008 Hot Company in January, we just received another industry award. This time it is specifically for our patent-pending myTruston web-based technology and was given by the Information Security Products Guide. This program is called the...
Truston Partners with Identity Force for Online ID Theft Protection
Feb 26, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Today we announced a new partnership with Identity Force. Identity Force is the leading provider of identity theft protection services to the U.S. government. Identity Force offers a broad suite services such as credit monitoring, credit reports & scores, insurance,...
Truston Wins 2008 Hot Company Award
Feb 1, 2008 by Tom Fragala
On Tuesday, at the Technosium Conference in Silicon Valley, Truston was selected as a winner of the 2008 Hot Company awards by the Network Products Guide, published by Silicon Valley Communications. This comes after being named a finalist in November. All...
Truston Featured in Identity Theft Research Report by Javelin
Jan 2, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Truston was featured in a Javelin Strategy & Research research report entitled "Identity Fraud Protection Services: Double Digit Growth to Continue". The report, released December 2007. provides a comprehensive analysis of the key identity theft protection services and is based in...
Truston Named 2008 Hot Companies Finalist
Nov 13, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Truston Named 2008 Hot Companies Finalist Winners Will Be Honored At Technosium 2008 in Silicon Valley SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - November 13, 2007 - Truston, a provider of award-winning online services for identity theft protection and consumer credit management, announced...
Truston Named 2008 Hot Companies Finalist
Nov 13, 2007 by Tom Fragala
I am pleased to announce that Truston was named a finalist for the 2008 Hot Companies award by Silicon Valley Communications. This further confirms our position has a provider of unique, scalable ID theft protection and consumer credit services. See...
4 New ID Theft Prevention and Privacy Tools--With Free Trial
Sep 29, 2007 by Tom Fragala
This week we released a new version of our award-winning myTruston service. The new features are FREE to current members for a 45–day free trial period. These four new prevention and privacy services are: Credit bureau fraud alerts Chexsystems fraud alerts Stop...
32% of Americans Haven't Checked Their Credit Report
Jun 22, 2007 by Michelle Pastor
According to a national poll by Bankrate, Inc, it’s true. Digital50.com reports that Bankrate also found that 45% of Americans don’t know their credit score. I can understand those not wanting to pay for a credit score, so it makes sense that...
Truston Offers Discounted Upgrade for LifeLock Customers
Jun 4, 2007 by Tom Fragala
We issued a press release this morning (read it here). Here is an explanation of what it is about. Last week, there was a shocking article about LifeLock by Ray Stern in the Phoenix New Times. Truston understands that their customers (and...
Truston Featured Again in PC Magazine
May 22, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Neil Rubenking at PC Magazine wrote an article on ID theft titled Protect Your Identity that was published today. Truston was one of the featured solutions including ZoneAlarm’s Internet Security Suite....
Truston Featured on MSN.com
May 16, 2007 by Tom Fragala
We were a featured link on the main MSN.com home page (still are currently) as one of “Today’s Pick’s”. We got a 10X traffic boost and a surge in membership. The MSN.com homepage linked to a MSNBC page actually, which...
New version of MyTruston released
May 15, 2007 by Tom Fragala
You probably did not notice it but we released a new version of the MyTruston service the other night. It includes many new features, especially improvements on the "back end" that users do not see. These new features include: 1....
New Article in PC World About Truston
May 1, 2007 by Tom Fragala
PC World, which wrote about Truston in their staff blog back in February, wrote about us again. Erik Larkin, who wrote the blog post, contributed a well done piece today in the Privacy Watch section of the PCWorld web site....
New Version of MyTruston Released
Mar 13, 2007 by Tom Fragala
On Sunday we released a new version of MyTruston. We’re constantly working to improve the service. Here is it only two weeks after our “official” product release and we’ve already pushed out new updates. Most of the changes are under...
PC Magazine Awards MyTruston 4 Out of 5 Stars
Mar 2, 2007 by Tom Fragala
I am very pleased to report that PC Magazine reviewed Truston's MyTruston service and awarded it 4 out of 5 stars (Very Good). See the summary here and full review here....
Fraudwar Blog Does Review of MyTruston
Feb 28, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Ed Dickson of the FraudWar blog (#1 ID theft focused blog according to Technorati) wrote a positive reivew of the new MyTruston service recently. Here are a few of the things he said about us. Tom Fragala, CEO of MyTruston (Identity...
Javelin Strategy Writes About Truston
Feb 28, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Javelin Strategy & Research, a leading provider of research for the financial services industry, wrote a blog post about our MyTruston service. Here is an excerpt: MyTruston, a recently developed Internet-based recovery service, could be useful for victims who may feel...
Free 30 Days of MyTruston Recovery for Charter Members
Feb 28, 2007 by Tom Fragala
If you signed up for our MyTruston recovery service during our “beta” testing period, I have good news. You hopefully heard that we officially launched MyTruston to the public this Monday. We added a number of new features to MyTruston as...
MyTruston Released to the Public
Feb 25, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Exciting news! We are finally launching the full public version of our MyTruston service! Here are the announcement details. 1. Availability February 26th 2. Prevention service free, Recovery service $19.99 / month, while you need it. 3. Find out more...
Identity Theft Statistic Battle Raging
Feb 14, 2007 by Tom Fragala
There’s a battle going on about ID theft stats. USA Today has a story about this here http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-07-ftc-idtheft_x.htm. Javelin Research says ID theft is dropping. US PIRG , Consumer Affairs, consumer advocate Chris Hoofnagle and others are ripping Javelin apart saying...
How myTruston Credit Inpecting Can Help Prevent ID Theft
Feb 13, 2007 by Tom Fragala
In the words of one of our myTruston members which signed up for our free prevention service: While I have never been a victim of Identity Theft, I was interested in learning more about the process of protecting myself. When...
Truston on the Radio
Jan 30, 2007 by Tom Fragala
I was interviewed on the Business and Technology show on KZSB radio January 22 2007. You can listen or download an MP3 podcast of the radio show. I am on Segments 3, 4 and 5. Wayne Norris (the host) and...
Blog home page now shows complete text
Jan 30, 2007 by Tom Fragala
We revised the format of the blog home page to show the complete text of the post. It makes the page busier but it is easier to read since it requires less clicks. I know that's how I prefer to...
Truston's identity theft service reviewed in popular blog
Dec 29, 2006 by Tom Fragala
“The Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation” (MMF) is an amusingly named and popular blog that focuses on outing scams and providing commentary on what to do. Today, they reviewed our myTruston™ identity theft protection service. It does the job...
Asking for input on our identity theft protection service myTruston
Dec 24, 2006 by Tom Fragala
As you probably know, the beta version of myTruston was released recently (and it’s received some rave reviews). Well, we’ve been hard at work planning new features and improvements (yes, you will be able to get more control of the reminders)....
Some buzz on myTruston
Dec 10, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Check out the buzz on the recently released beta version of myTruston, our identity theft protection service. One example: "As a financial crimes investigator, I can recommend MyTruston with confidence."— Jim Cates, Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE), Police Sergeant (Ret.) Photo by...
myTruston is Live: Simple, Safe Identity Theft Protection
Dec 3, 2006 by Tom Fragala
myTruston (beta) is released and publicly available! Anyone can register by visiting www.mytruston.com. What is myTruston? myTruston is a web-based service that protects you from identity theft. It is simple and safe. How simple? One minute sign up. And myTruston...
Identity Theft Secrets Uncovers Lazy PR at SSA
Nov 15, 2006 by Tom Fragala
In a recent post (see here), I opined about the Social Security Administration's apparent cluelessness over phishing scams. Well, Jonathan Kraft at Identity Theft Secrets really went the full nine yards. He discovered that the SSA was just recycling a...
Golden Ticket Period is Over
Nov 14, 2006 by Tom Fragala
FYI, the period for new golden tickets window is closed. Thanks to everyone to tried out the system. For those that sent feedback, your thank you gift will be sent in the next few weeks (they are on order, arriving...
First review of myTruston Identity Theft Service
Nov 14, 2006 by Tom Fragala
I'm pleased to report that Ed at the popular blog Fraudwar (Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds) recently tried out the beta version of the myTruston service and blogged about it. Here's one quote: I had the opportunity to test the...
A Quick Note About Comments
Nov 14, 2006 by Tom Fragala
This is for anyone who posted a comment on this blog recently. Our blog system has Several comment spam filters installed which is pretty cool. But the aggressiveness of the filter was set too high, so all the comments were...
Golden Tickets Are In Circulation - Get Yours Now!
Nov 8, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Recently, a small number of golden tickets have been sent out to people. The tix include a special code giving them access to a new web-based identity theft recovery and prevention service called myTruston. Here's a few comments I...
Welcome to a New Contributor, Michelle Pastor
Oct 23, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Michelle has been working with me for a while now and is preparing a set of fantastic articles with tips on identity theft, consumer credit and personal finance. She's got a superb background and I know you'll enjoy her articles...
Help Us Complete our Privacy Policy
Oct 18, 2006 by Tom Fragala
We are launching our myTruston service soon. I can hardly wait to tell you more about it (sneak peeks coming soon.) Part of launching a web service is writing a privacy policy. It's more work than you think. If you...
Truston Featured on Trend Micro Web Site
Oct 18, 2006 by Tom Fragala
An article I wrote recently about laptop theft (Top 10 Ways To Protect Yourself From Laptop Theft) is being featured on a web site of Trend Micro (TMIC) called TrendSecure. The article is also featured right on the home page....
Jarrod Hunt is Violating Copyright Law and Stealing My Content
Sep 9, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Jarrod Hunt of Version2 Web Development, Textlinkbrokers, and 360 Enterprises is stealing my content, in clear violation of U.S. federal copyright law. He’s responsible for a splog located at charliesidentitytheftblog.com (no I won’t link to it). He steals my blog...
How Experian thumbs its nose at the FTC every day
Aug 16, 2006 by Tom Fragala
In 2005, Experian (doing business as consumerinfo.com) was fined $1 million by the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive and fraudulent marketing of credit reports (see the FTC report here). Basically they marketed “FREE” credit reports and then charged people for...
Explaining our free service and other FAQs
Jul 8, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Recently, we announced free credit monitoring as part of our myTruston service. We did so because after the massive data breach at the VA, the government looked set to spend billions of dollars to provide credit monitoring and other credit services....
Truston Offers Free Credit Monitoring to Save Gov't Billions
Jun 27, 2006 by Tom Fragala
A press release is going to hit the wire services shortly. We are announcing our free credit monitoring service and premium ID theft recovery services. They’ll be available in the 3rd quarter 2006. We’ve been working on this for well...
Truston in Wired News
Jun 19, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Truston was mentioned in a Wired News article last week. Ryan Singel authored the well-written article....
Truston mentioned in ConsumerAffairs.com article
Mar 23, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Martin Bosworth of ConsumerAffairs.com mentioned me and this blog in his article of March 21. The article talked about comments I recently made about a new service from a company called TrustedID on another blog. It also covers some opinions...
Slow posting...things are brewing here
Mar 17, 2006 by Tom Fragala
I have been slow in responding to email and I have been posting lightly the last few days. But it's all for a good cause. We've been working 18 hour days here at Truston this week and we're going to...
Newspaper coverage on Truston
Feb 26, 2006 by Tom Fragala
I attended the ID Theft Summit in LA last week (see here and here for my posts). While I was there, I was interviewed by the Ventura County Star. My quote made the front page of Friday’s paper (February 24)....
More blogging from the ID Theft Summit in LA
Feb 23, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Right now Mari Frank is talking. She’s quite a good speaker. Interesting fact: 10 billion pre approved credit card offers were sent last year! She is a victim herself. She has a fascinating story about a victim (Raymond Lorenzo) she’s...
Blogging from the ID Theft Summit
Feb 23, 2006 by Tom Fragala
I am writing this from the ID Theft Summit in Los Angeles. It’s around 945am and Governor Schwarzenegger just finished speaking. He managed to get everyone laughing when he joked that so far he hasn’t been hit by ID theft...
ID Theft Summit in LA
Feb 22, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Tomorrow, Thursday Feb 23 06, I am going to be at the ID Theft Summit. It’s being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center and is open to the public. If you’re planning to attend and want to meet, send...