How Long to Monitor High Risk New Account

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We have a new customer, just moved to our town, from an HIDTA county in Florida. When I process a risk aassessment, and use his Florida driver's license address, the risk is a high risk. How long should I monitor this account? He did get a Louisiana license on the day that he opened his account.

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by Randy Carey:

I really have no idea why a consumer moving to a new location makes them high risk, regardless of where they moved from, barring other specific information that would indicate potential high risk behavior.

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by Ken Golliher:

If a consumer customer is a PEP or an NRA, you might consider a higher risk classification, but former residence in a HIDTA? Sixty percent of the U.S. population lives in HIDTAs...