Keeping Your Money Safe While on Vacation

Planning a vacation requires careful preparation, including managing your money safely. While traveling is an exciting and rewarding experience, it is also a time when theft or fraud can derail your plans. Ensuring you have enough money for your hotel, transportation, food, and leisure activities can make or break your trip.These 7 travel tips will […]

Staying Ahead of The Scammers

Criminals are constantly trying to steal consumers’ personal data through fictitious emails, websites, phone calls, and even text messages. These attempts by fraudsters are called phishing attacks. Phishing is a type of scam that targets consumers primarily by sending emails or text messages that appear to be from reputable sources such as your financial institution, […]

Identity Theft

What is identity theft? Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personally identifying information, like your name, Social Security number, or credit card number, without your permission, to commit fraud or other crimes. The FTC estimates that as many as 25 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. In fact, you or someone you know […]

How to Avoid Online Scams

GTSB, Visa, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other agencies all advise consumers to never give out confidential personal information or financial account information when receiving unsolicited phone calls or e-mails. Additionally, they note that court personnel will never ask for such information over the phone, and that courts […]

10 Simple Steps For ATM Safety

1. Be aware of the surroundings when using an automated teller machine (ATM), particularly during the hours of darkness. 2. Be accompanied by another person when using an ATM during the hours of darkness. 3. Refrain from displaying cash. Place cash in a pocket as soon as a transaction is completed and count cash in […]