Americana Community Bank - AMERICANA COMMUNITY BANK OFFERS IDENTITY THEFT PREVENTION TIPS

Americana Community Bank has actively alternate in and accurate the communities it serves for added than 125 yearsStore this angel in big sizeIdentity annexation can be a nightmare. That’s why this Halloween, Americana Community Bank is auspicious consumers to chase some simple accomplish in adjustment to abstain an character annexation nightmare.

Identity theft, the fastest growing blazon of fraud, involves added than the abusage of a Social Security number; it can aswell cover acclaim agenda and mail fraud. Fraudsters are always developing avant-garde means to abduct consumer’s claimed information.

“The greater the public’s acquaintance of character theft, the greater adventitious we accept at preventing it. An accomplished chump is the key to prevention,” said Allen Obernolte, Americana Community Bank President and CEO. “Most humans adore a Halloween scare, but no one wants to deathwatch up to the absolute activity daydream of accepting their character stolen.”

Americana Community Bank offers tips to “pass” on an character annexation daydream this Halloween:

•Protect- Protect your Social Security number. Don’t backpack your amusing aegis agenda with you, or accept your amount printed on checks. Never accord out your case anniversary or acclaim agenda number, unless you accomplished the contact. Use firewalls, anti-spyware and anti-virus software to assure your home computer. Put locks on mailboxes and assure mail afore and afterwards it gets into your home.

•Alert- Be on active for signs that your character may be in jeopardy, including: bills that don't access if expected; abrupt acclaim cards or anniversary statements; denials of acclaim for no aboveboard reasons; calls or belletrist about purchases you did not make; telemarketing scams that ambush barter into absolute claimed anniversary information.

•Shred- Shred or breach up statements and added claimed advice that hotlink your name to anniversary numbers or your Social Security number. Criminals may be able to get acceptance to your accounts and claimed advice by “dumpster diving,” or retrieving canceled checks, bead receipts or case statements from dumpsters or debris bins.

•Scan- Scan your acclaim address and accounts regularly. For your acclaim report, analysis that aggregate is accurate, all accounts are castigation and bankrupt accounts are apparent closed. Check your case and acclaim agenda statements online for crooked charges. To acceptance your chargeless acclaim report, appointment www.annualcreditreport.com.

In accession to educating consumers, banks use encrypted systems, agent training, austere aloofness behavior and accurate aegis standards to assure consumers’ claimed information. Consumers are about not amenable for counterfeit affairs or accounts they did not open.

If you doubtable that you are a victim of character theft, acquaintance your case immediately, again book a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission by calling 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338) or visiting www.ftc.gov/idtheft.

Americana Community Bank encourages both accepted and -to-be barter to appointment any one of their 5 case branches to apprentice added about character theft.

Americana Community Bank is a full-service association case accouterment common chump and bartering banking casework in Sleepy Eye, Medford, Chanhassen, Maple Grove and Minnetonka, Minn. Chartered in 1881 as The State Bank of Sleepy Eye, Americana Community Bank has actively alternate in and accurate the communities it serves for added than 125 years.

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