Red Hot Real Estate Fraud
The real estate market is red hot! Across the country, home prices are soaring and new homes cannot be built fast enough. Did you know the crooks are also cashing in on this lucrative market? Real Estate Business Email Compromise...
Tailoring the My Card Rules App
How are you enjoying the MyCardRules app? My experience with it has been great! Do you like the alerts and control that you now have? Do you use it to monitor your kid’s spending patterns? Do you turn your spouse’s...
Combating Card Fraud 2.0: MyCardRules app
I am proud to announce a new wave in the fight against card fraud – the MyCardRules app. In June 2017, I wrote an article on combatting card fraud – enabling text alerts. Since that time, Wilson Bank has been...
Vacation Declined
DON’T GET DECLINED, NOTIFY US Summertime is almost here! WOOHOO! I cannot wait for my family’s summer travel plans. If you are planning an out-of-state vacation this summer, please do not forget to notify us of your plans. We don’t need a full...
Spring Cleaning: Dust with Information
Are you glad for the arrival of spring? If you’re like me, spring cleaning is on your mind when the weather finally gets nice. Cluttered closets, jammed garages, plentiful attics stuffed with items that have not seen daylight in years...
10 Tips for Keeping Your Finances Safe Online
Are you worried about conducting business online? It’s a valid concern. Cyberattacks, hacks, and breaches fill the headlines. Here are 10 quick tips you can use to keep your finances safe while online: Create yourself – As soon as you...
Do You Enjoy Tax Time?
Do you enjoy tax time? The cybercriminals do! Tax season is upon us, and it’s a very healthy time of year for cybercriminals, who continue to target all industries with W2 phishing email scams. They use legitimate-looking emails asking for...
Romance Scams: A Billion-dollar Industry
Valentine’s day may have already passed, but romance scams are still trendy. Cybercriminals and groups are turning up the heat on their victims. What is romance scam? Romance scams are plain old fashioned extortion fraud with a new twist –...
Moving Beyond the ‘S’: HTTPS
We need to move beyond the S. Specifically, the “S” at the end of HTTPS in our browser bar. It’s 2018, and most of us, myself included, still often validate a website’s authenticity based on whether or not a website...
New Year, New Security Strategy
The Christmas stockings are stuffed away, and the tree has been taken down; Christmas is officially behind us. 2018 is going to be great! You WILL keep those resolutions. One resolution I want you to have is to increase your...