Protecting your online bank accounts

Protecting your online bank accounts

22 July 2008

It's important that you try to protect your online bank accounts when using internet banking. While your bank takes many precautions to protect your online bank accounts from fraud, you must also be responsible and take precautions keep scammers at bay.

To protect you online bank accounts, remember these tips:

Never respond to emails claiming to be from you bank and never follow any links in the email. Banks do not send out emails to their customers. This is most likely a phishing scam. Never give out details of your online bank accounts to anyone.

Protect the passwords of your online bank accounts. Make the passwords hard to guess - try using a mixture of letters and numbers. Change passwords regularly. Try to make your security questions difficult.

Make sure the websites you're using are secure. Look for the padlock in the right hand corner. This means the website is secure

Protect your online bank accounts by protecting your computer. Install reputable virus checkers, spyware detectors and firewalls and use them on a regular basis.

Compare bank accounts now to find the right bank accounts for you and learn more about bank account scams.

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