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What is financial account monitoring?

Financial account monitoring allows you to track your financial accounts and spot any updates or changes made, like new account inquiries, added signers, and changes to personal information. It helps you stay alert and protects you from unauthorized data exposure.

With NordProtect, you can easily set up financial account monitoring and automatically receive alerts when it detects new suspicious activity related to your banking information.

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How does financial account monitoring work?

As part of NordProtect’s identity theft protection service, financial account monitoring continuously checks your financial details to spot financial irregularities, like additions of account signers and holders, attempts to open new financial accounts, and pending opening requests. Financial account monitoring covers checking, savings, business, certificate of deposit (CD), and IRA accounts, acting as a flexible threat detection service.

To get started with financial account monitoring, you need to provide your name, date of birth, address, and Social Security number (SSN), and complete a quick verification process. It ensures enhanced security for your financial accounts and helps you react to potential threats more efficiently.

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Why is financial account monitoring important?

Financial account fraud is one of the hardest types of identity fraud to detect. If a person’s financial information is breached and accessible to criminals, they can open a new account to funnel funds from the existing account, breaching the victim’s financial security. Information tied to financial accounts is highly sensitive, including full legal names and Social Security numbers. If breached, this information can also be used for crimes like identity fraud and cyber extortion, loan fraud, or credit card fraud.

Financial account monitoring helps detect cases where the user’s personally identifiable information was used to open new accounts or make changes to their existing accounts. Using the information provided by financial account monitoring, it’s easier to tell whether financial account activity is legitimate or fraudulent.

Benefits of NordProtect’s financial account monitoring

Explore the benefits of NordProtect’s financial account monitoring:

24/7 monitoring

Financial account monitoring is an easy, hands-off way to track your financial activity. NordProtect takes care of the bank account activity checks — no manual work needed on your end.

Timely alert

Don’t let financial breaches go unnoticed. NordProtect continuously monitors your financial accounts, including newly opened accounts and inquiries, and sends you alerts immediately once it detects suspicious activity.

All-rounded personal security

With NordProtect’s extensive security features, you get comprehensive protection for your personal data. Set up dark web and credit monitoring, get security alerts when your data is compromised, and receive identity theft recovery support.

What kind of financial account monitoring alerts do you receive?

NordProtect follows and alerts about different types of financial account activity:

A new application is submitted for a checking or savings account.

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How to get NordProtect with a financial account monitoring feature

Improve the security of your personal information easily with NordProtect.

01. Get NordProtect

Get the NordProtect bundle with financial account monitoring included.

02. Set up monitoring

Verify your ID to access financial account monitoring and activity alerts.

03. Recover your identity

Receive support at every step of account recovery with online fraud insurance.

Stay alert of financial account fraud with NordProtect

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FAQ

Who needs financial account monitoring?

Financial account monitoring is a useful data protection tool for any financial account holder in the US. This feature is recommended to protect your sensitive personal and financial information from being used without your consent, as well as prevent attempts at identity theft.

How is financial account monitoring different from bank fraud alerts?

Unlike bank fraud alerts, financial account monitoring provides a more extensive, continuous check of financial activity related to your personal information. By tracking your activity 24/7, you can quickly learn about suspicious activity, promptly respond to it, and protect your sensitive information from unauthorized exposure more effectively.

Will I get financial account monitoring alerts in real time?

Financial account monitoring runs 24/7, checking for updates to your banking activity daily and alerting you with notifications.

Do I need to link my bank account to use financial account monitoring?

No, you don’t need to link your bank account. This feature monitors financial activity using a comprehensive database with access to financial institutions across all 50 states, including national and regional banks, as well as credit unions. However, to activate financial account monitoring, you need to provide your personal details, including your full name, date of birth, address, and Social Security number. Once your personal information is verified with TransUnion®, the feature is switched on.

Is financial account monitoring safe to use?

Yes, financial account monitoring is safe to use and is a part of NordProtect’s identity theft protection features. To access financial account monitoring, you must verify your personal information with the TransUnion® ID Proofing for Identity Verification.