Alert: Don’t fall victim to online scams.
Your security is important to us. We have provided the following tools and resources to help you avoid becoming a victim of phishing scams and to help you practice safe computing.
Never provide your personal financial information in response to an unsolicited request, whether it is over the phone or over the internet. Remember that we will never ask you for your personal financial information by e-mail.
To learn how phishing scams work, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you fall victim to a scam, please click on the links below.
www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/guard/index.html
Alert: Protect Your Personal Information. Use Strong Passwords.
Keep your passwords in a secure place, and out of plain view. Do not share your passwords on the Internet, over email, or on the phone. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) should never ask for your password.
A good, strong password should meet all three of these criteria:
1. Over eight characters in length.
2. Combines letters, number, and symbols, but:
- Not sequential or repeating combinations, such as "123456", or "22222", "abcdefg", or adjacent letters on your keyboard
- Not common words with letters replaced by numbers or symbols, such as M1cr0$0ft or P@ssw0rd.
3. Easy for you to remember, but difficult for others to guess, and:
- Not your login name, your spouse's name, or personal information, such as birthdays, pet's name, social security number, etc.
- Not words found in the dictionary, in any language, or words spelled backwards.
- Not hard-to-remember.
One way to create a strong password is to think of a memorable phrase and use the first letter of each word as your password, converting some letters into numbers that resemble letters. An example is: "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck" would become HmWc@wc.
