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I have many online stock broker accounts, and was wondering if Trusted ID will protect them so that no one can get into the accounts and sell or mess with them in any way. Also, I have a separate credit monitoring service. How is Trusted ID different from the credit report monitoring that I have already?

May 20th, 2010 - Posted by Tasha

The following is an actual user-submitted question:

Q:  I have many online stock broker accounts, and was wondering if Trusted ID will protect them so that no one can get into the accounts and sell or mess with them in any way.  Also, I have a separate credit monitoring service.  How is Trusted ID different from the credit report monitoring that I have already?

A: Good question!  You CAN have Trusted ID monitor any account that has both an account number and a routing number.  I'm not sure if your specific online stock broker accounts qualify, but you should check and find out.  However, they don't monitor the account itself for activity, as they wouldn't be able to determine whether it was you or someone else accessing it.  If you're concerned about someone breaching your online stock broker accounts, you should definitely change the passwords on all of them to a secure password.  The password on each account should be different, and should contain upper and lower case letters as well as numbers and at least one allowed symbol (like "*").

Trusted ID does monitor the Internet black market for the use of your account numbers, and then they will immediately alert you if they discover that any of your numbers are being bought or sold. They also monitor public records and the Internet for any changes to or misuse of your name, address, or Social Security number.  All of this will help to track any suspicious activity that might be occurring with your personal information.

Not knowing specifically which credit report monitoring service you currently have, the general difference between Trusted ID and any credit monitoring service is that Trusted ID is oriented towards identity theft protection and will not actively monitor your credit history.  Trusted ID will send one 3-bureau credit report each year, but doesn't check your credit reports on a daily basis to see if any changes occur.

Because you seem to be worried about both identity theft and credit report monitoring, you might want to consider Identity Guard.  Identity Guard is a very robust offering that provides full credit report monitoring and identity theft protection.  And just like Trusted ID, they will monitor for any account with an account number and routing number.

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