Protecting your account is now more important than ever. Criminals are using a method called “credential stuffing” to try and access accounts at financial institutions.
Protect yourself and those you love.
In a recent scam targeting cash-strapped millennials, fraudsters are once again cashing in on people’s naivety and goodwill. This time they’re using social media to make it happen.
Riiiing! You race for the landline, but the caller has already hung up—after just one ring. How rude! You thumb through the Caller ID, poised to give your mysterious caller a ring back when you note the strange area code.
The TwinStar Credit Union Fraud Department is handling a near epidemic of fraud claims as a result of card skimming
devices placed on area gas pump terminals.
We’ve received multiple reports that fraudulent emails are being sent to our members attempting to obtain their private information.
The emails state that the Member’s online account access has been blocked due to ongoing maintenance or that the Member needs to verify their account or identity by f
TwinStar has rolled out enhanced Fraud Detection notifications to members. Previously, we would call the phone number on your account to verify any suspicious transactions we detected.
The situation is becoming all too common: you receive a call while out shopping or perhaps during dinner. You don’t recognize the number, but the person on the line identifies themselves as an employee of your financial institution. They speak urgently—there’s a problem with your account.
TwinStar technology enhancements and mobile services help you keep your accounts safe.
During the height of the Great Depression in the late 1930s, loan sharks preyed on struggling Olympia schoolteachers who could not get reasonable terms for financing because of their seasonal employment.
