Dort Financial Members: Beware of These Scams

Fraudsters are working hard to create new elaborate scams with the intent of stealing your personal information and your money. Dort Financial Credit Union’s goal is to educate and warn you of the possible risks that could result in the loss of your money due to robbery or falling victim to theft by means of fraudulent scams. The questions below are all indicators of ongoing scams designed to steal from you. Please consider these carefully before responding to requests for information or money.

Are you being pressured to:
• Give someone money or gift cards (stranger, friend, lover, or family member)?
• Transfer title to your home, property, or other asset?
• Make someone a power of attorney or joint account holder on one or more of your accounts?
• Purchase something you have not seen personally?

Have you been contacted by:
• Someone claiming to be a credit union employee directing you to withdraw the cash and deposit it into a Bitcoin ATM?
• Someone who has threatened you.
• Someone who is from another country and has asked you to make a withdrawal for any reason?
• Someone who claims to be with law enforcement or a government agency asking you to withdraw money to help with a criminal investigation, to pay taxes, or for an alleged debt?
• Someone who befriended you and is now asking you to invest your money, or to share cash or valuables?
• Someone who claims to be a local inspector or repairman that has found code violations or repairs that are necessary to your home or property, or insists you owe money for a service?
• Someone who is promising funds if you pay taxes, fees, registration cost, etc.?
• Someone who claims that a deceased family member made a large purchase before their death and now you are obligated to pay for it?
• Someone who has asked you to send money in order to claim a prize or a larger sum of money?
• Someone who claims to be a family member or calling as a representative for a family member in an embarrassing or emergency situation needing funds for bail, hospital bills, lawyer fee, etc.?
• Someone who asked you to help them by giving this money to another person (third party)?

If you have fallen victim to one of these scams or any others, you are not alone. In the past few years, fraud losses due to scams has risen to billions of dollars of which the victims are typically liable.

If your account has been compromised, please contact Dort Financial Credit Union at (800) 521-3796.
For more information about fraudulent scams or to report a scam, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website at https://consumer.ftc.gov/scams.