The Online Banking service has several effective security techniques that we encourage you to implement when you use the Online Banking service:
- Never reveal your password to anyone or leave your password anywhere that someone else can obtain and use it.
- Change your password on a regular basis.
- Use the Exit button to end each Online Banking session. Do not use the Back button to exit the site.
- Change your session timeout in User Options to a time that meets your needs.
- Review and balance your account on a regular basis to identify any potentially unauthorized transactions and report them immediately. Online Banking makes it easy!
- Do not open email attachments that are of unknown origin to you, as this is often the source of virus and worm infections that can cause serious damage to your computer.
- Do not include personal or financial information in an e-mail message, as unauthorized individuals can easily intercept this information to commit fraud or identity theft.
- Do not trust or act upon unsolicited emails that request personal information such as passwords, credit card numbers, ATM PINs, social security numbers, etc. Protect yourself from a "Phishing" scam.
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a term coined by Internet hackers who use email lures to "fish" passwords and financial data from the sea of Internet users. Email messages designed to look like they came from a merchant or financial
institution are mailed to Internet users. The emails direct the recipient to update or provide information back to the company's web site by instructing the user to click on a URL embedded within the email. The
embedded URL links the user to a counterfeit web site designed to look like the company's legitimate web site. Passwords and other personal information are then solicited and collected by the web site and used by
the scammer to defraud the user.