
When you sign up for ID Watchdog Plus, we will verify your identity and create a Identity Profile Report for you. Each month thereafter, we’ll send you an update that highlights any changes or gives you an “all clear” notice.
Step 1 - Verification
Before we unleash our search engines to retrieve your personal information, we utilize an identity verification system that generates personalized questions about you, to ensure that we are providing services to the correct individual.
Once we know that you’re the “real you,” we’ll proceed with our services. Verification is the first step in making sure your identity is safe under our watch, and that your information is not being provided to anyone but you.
Step 2 - Identity Profile Report Page
After enrolling in ID Watchdog’s services, we’ll compile an "Identity Profile Report,” containing all of your personal data. This will include all of the addresses and names associated with your identity. Although there may be variances in spelling and data entry errors, we’ll have you look for red flags such as completely different addresses or entirely new names, which are often a sign that criminals may be taking advantage of your identity.
If all is recognized and approved by you, we will use this report to check against any new or changed data on a monthly basis, and alert you to any changes. If anything suspicious turns up in your Identity Profile, we’ll proceed with an ID SnapShot to start rectifying the problem.
Step 3 - Monthly Monitoring
After your recognized profile has been established, we will comb our thousands of databases for your identity information each month. If there are no new or changed data points, we’ll notify you that your records are clean. However, if we find new data points, we will notify you of the changes for you to review. More often than not, the new information will have resulted from a new account you opened. In that case, you can approve the data, and we’ll add it to your identity profile.
In the rare case that the new data is unfamiliar and suspicious, we ask that you let us know. We will initiate extensive reporting that will tell us more about activities on your records through our ID SnapShot, and then proceed with our ID Rehab resolution services, if necessary, until the problem is resolved.