Security and Fraud Protection
Cascade Bank is dedicated to protecting your confidential personal and business information. To learn how Cascade Bank protects you, as well as ways to protect yourself, please visit the following links.
Security Articles:
Pharming
Phishing
FBI fraud alert quiz
Identity theft
Credit and debit/ATM card fraud
Privacy protection
Internet banking security
Reporting fraudulent email
To help protect secure and sensitive information of our customers, please forward emails that appear suspicious and fraudulent to fraudunit@cascadebank.com
Pharming
Pharming is an attack in which a user can be fooled into entering sensitive data such as a password or credit card number into a malicious website that impersonates a legitimate web site.
The attacker does not have to rely on having the user click a link in an email to deceive them — even if the user correctly enters a URL (web address) into a browser's address bar, the attacker can still redirect the user to a malicious web site.
• Secured protocol (https://)
Cascade Bank's web site uses a secure connection to prevent other web sites from
impersonating it. Typically, the https:// web protocol is used on a
login page to allow the user to verify the web site's identity. If an attacker
attempts to impersonate a PC web site, the user will receive a message from the
browser indicating that the web site's "certificate" does not match the address being visited.
• Security alert warnings
You should NEVER click "Yes" in response to such a window, otherwise you might become involved with a pharming attack.
Want to learn about how to fight financial fraud?
Read the FDIC's consumer newsletter: "How to Shield Yourself from Swindles."
Download the FDIC's brochure on phishing : "You Can Prevent Fraud."
Learn more about fraudulent email that appears to be from the FDIC.
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