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Protecting Aging Adults from Financial Abuse

Being aware of an elder’s lifestyle is the first step in determining if they may be a victim of abuse. There may be many small and large symptoms of potential elder financial abuse, and it’s important to stay current on a family members’ (or friends’) behavior, their living environment, and, if you can, how their financial accounts are set up and their cash flow and bill paying activities.

Credit, Investment, Savings, Security

How to Begin Recovering from Identity Theft

Identity theft may be preventable, but when it occurs, it can be terrible to experience and difficult to recover from. If a crook steals your identity, they may not just hijack your accounts and steal your money; they can cripple your finances, harm your credit rating and make you liable for taxes that you don’t owe. It’s important to know and look out for the signs that your identity has been taken and used to harm you. Although Identity Theft Insurance can be purchased to help manage the effects of identity theft on your life, there are still actions that must be taken quickly to mitigate identity theft’s consequences.

Security

Don’t Get Scammed on Social Media

Facebook®, Instagram®, Twitter®, LinkedIn®, TikTok®, WhatsApp®, Telegram®, Tumblr®, Roblox®, Discord® (and numerous other forms of social networks) have billions of daily users across the United States and around the world. Wherever there are lots of people, there are individuals and companies trying to make money by selling to them, and, sometimes, by stealing from them. Social networks provide a convenient, easily accessible and large group of targets for scammers.

Investment, Savings, Security, Taxes

Be Sure to Use the Right Account Number When Setting Up Direct Deposit

It’s common for Delta Community members to link their Credit Union accounts, such as a Savings Account to a Checking Account, or to link their Credit Union accounts to other financial institutions or to the U.S. government, such as linking an account with the federal Internal Revenue Service for paying taxes or receiving tax refunds. If you are linking accounts, be certain you are always using your correct Delta Community Credit Union account information/number.

Credit, Savings, Security

Working to Avoid New Job Scams

In response to the Great Resignation, there are millions of available jobs at companies needing to replace or increase full or part-time staff, with both employed and unemployed candidates eager to apply for a new, potentially more profitable position. Employers are posting open positions on online job boards, and recruiters are reaching out to potential candidates by phone and email. But not all of those jobs are real—some are fake and being promoted by scammers posing as job recruiters trying to steal money and hijack financial and other types of personal accounts.

Credit, Savings, Security

Where To Get Help if You’re Scammed

Once someone realizes they’ve been scammed and lost their money, what can they do to protect themselves from further losses and, possibly, recover their funds? There are actions to take both with the companies holding financial accounts and with the U.S. government that may be able to help a victim restore their money, protect their accounts, and track down the crooks responsible for a financial loss.

Credit, Investment, Savings, Security

How to Protect Your New Computer from Hackers

If you’re setting up a new computer, one thing that should be done right away is to check—and install if necessary—a number of security measures to help protect that PC from being infected by malware.

Features, Security, Taxes

Update Your Delta Community Contact Details Today!

If any of your personal contact details that are used for your Delta Community accounts have changed, the Credit Union needs to have your current information as soon as possible. Reviewing and updating your personal contact information annually is the best way to have your accounts operating efficiently.

Credit, Investment, Savings, Security

Keep Your Computer’s Data Secure, Even When Getting Rid of the Computer

Many of us are pretty dependent on our personal computers (PC) to assist in managing our lives, and that means we tend to store a wide range of personal information—our data—on them. From family photos and videos, music collections, medical and legal documents, to our resumes and examples of our work, the digital record of our lives tends to accumulate on our computer's memory drives, and probably grows larger over time. This information is valuable to us, and, potentially, could be valuable to a hacker, especially any financial and legal documents or financial account information. Information that is valuable should be protected from loss or theft, and it is well worth investing time (and maybe money) to safeguard your private data.

Education, Savings, Security

A Crook Wants to Fix Your Computer—Don’t Fall for Tech Support Scams

Tech support scams are an ongoing attempt to take victims’ money by convincing them that there is a serious problem with their computer when there is no problem; the scammer then offers to fix the problem for immediate payment. The scammers try to convince their innocent targets to pay them to eliminate a virus, malware, or other issue supposedly harming the victim’s computer before it can cause further damage and put their email, social media, healthcare, financial or other accounts in jeopardy of being hijacked.
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