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The Company Behind ID Theft Assist Applauds New ID Theft Services Report
March 24, 2009
Worldwide Benefit Services, LLC (WBS), the creator of the industry-leading ID Theft Assistsm program welcomes the accolades and suggestions provided in the recently released Consumer Federation of America (CFA) Identity Theft Service Study. CFA is an advocacy, research, education, and service organization. As an advocacy group, it works to advance pro-consumer policy on a variety of issues.
The CFA report praised the ID Theft Assist program for the clear emphasis of the restoration services offered and the product’s overall clear communication to consumers.
“WBS prides itself on creating products that the consumer can easily understand and we feel the ID Theft Assist program does that” said Gregg Brooks, a principal with WBS. “Unfortunately some of our competitors in this very new industry of ID theft services are not as forthcoming about what they actually do for their customer.”
WBS also is taking seriously the suggestions in the report about the clarity of the program’s credit monitoring benefit.
“We have already addressed making it clearer for the consumer on the product web site as we felt that the CFA report is truly the first unbiased study of the ID theft service industry and we want to take their feedback to heart. We feel that ID Theft Assist is the most comprehensive service in our industry so we have no problem is being very honest in what we promise our clients” said Brooks.
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About Worldwide Benefit Services
Worldwide Benefit Services (WBS) was established in 1999 by three experienced insurance executives as a company that specializes in creating and wholesaling non-insurance service products. After building the company by placing travel assistance programs with insurance carriers, in 2004, WBS created ID Theft Assist, a comprehensive restoration service for identity theft victims. Working both directly and with contracted WBS agents, WBS has gathered the compelling interest and the business in a variety of markets.
About ID Theft Assist:
ID Theft Assist was launched in January of 2004 and with its operational partners provides peace-of-mind for ID Theft for over 15 million individuals across the country. The 24/7 emergency assistance center is headquartered in the offices of Europ Assist USA in Bethesda, MD. Europ Assistance USA has been in operation since 1982 in the United States. Its office has not closed for one single day since.