Consumer Alert
A Message about Protecting Your Personal Information and Avoiding Fraud:
As your Bank, we want to alert you to the increasing risk of identity theft and various scams involving the internet, phony lotteries, and counterfeit checks. It is unfortunate, but there are unscrupulous people who will attempt defraud you of your hard earned money or take advantage of your good name or credit rating This may result in a loss of both your money and time if you have to clear your name or credit rating with your bank, investment firm, and credit bureau. We want to assure you that we have taken steps to protect your information. We also want to caution you against taking any of the following actions that may introduce spyware that could compromise personal information on your computer or introduce viruses that could harm your computer and data.
Do not respond to and E-mail request for personal information (we will not request personal information from you by E-mail, or ask you to verify confidential information online, and neither will the FDIC, the OCC, the OTS, or other banking regulators). Similarly, actual bank examiners are not authorized to ask you to withdraw funds from your account as a part of a bank examination.
Links
Do not click on any link in an unsolicited E-mail message that purports to be from Indiana First Bank. Call us at our telephone number listed in the telephone directory or obtained from directory assistance to verify if the message is authentic. Do not use the telephone number in the E-mail; it may not be authentic.
Do not access the websites of Indiana First Bank and InFirst Financial Advisors, LLC from a link in another party's website.
Checks
Sometimes cashiers checks and other official-looking "bank checks" are forgeries. If you receive one from a source that you are unfamiliar with or purporting to be part of a contest or lottery, call the bank on which the check is drawn to verify that it is authentic. Again, look up the banks number in the telephone book, or obtain it from directory assistance to make the call. Do not use the telephone number on the check or in any letter that might accompany it.
Text Messages
Indiana First Bank will never ask you for personal account information via text message. Do not provide personal or account information to anyone you do not know.
To learn more about protecting yourself from identity theft, scams, and other fraud click on the following links below:
FDIC Consumer Alerts www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/alerts/index.html and an excellent video presentation at www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumers/guard/index.html
Pennsylvania Attorney General www.attorneygerneral.gov/consumers.aspx?id=619
Federal Trade Commission online publication "Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft" www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/idtheft/idt04.htm
