PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FRAUD
BANK FRAUD
- Your bank will never e-mail or call you for your account number
- Check your monthly bank statements for charges you don’t recognize
- Shred confidential documents instead of just throwing them in your paper trash
- Order a copy of your credit report from each of the 3 national credit bureaus once a year from annualcreditreport.com
INTERNET FRAUD
- Don’t wire money to people you don’t know
- Don’t respond to an e-mail from a relative or friend of yours
asking for money because they’ve been robbed
or misplaced their travel documents while traveling - Don’t respond to an e-mail from anyone offering
to make you a good return on your money
if you help them out of their current financial trouble right away - Be cautious of work at home job offers
Check out the company with the Better Business Bureau - It’s easy for a business to look legitimate online
Check out the company with the Better Business Bureau - Foreign lotteries are illegal in the U.S.
You can’t win no matter what they say - There are no legitimate jobs that involve
reshipping items or financial instruments from your home - Never click on a link inside an e-mail to visit a website
Type the address into your browser instead - Keep your receipts, statements and packing slips & review them for accuracy
- Report online fraud to the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint
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ADDITIONAL WARNING SIGNS OF FRAUD
- Sounds too good to be true
- Pressures you to act right away
- Guarantees success
- Promises unusually high returns
- Requires an upfront investment even for a FREE prize
- Buyers want to overpay you for an item & have you send them the difference
- Doesn’t have the look of a real business
- Something just doesn’t feel right
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