Consider these steps to help protect yourself and your family.

Best Practices for Cybersecurity

To enhance online security, use separate email accounts for professional and personal communications. Stay vigilant by creating strong passwords, changing them regularly, and exercising caution when clicking links or opening email attachments.

Monitoring Your Credit

Review your credit reports regularly for unauthorized activity. Consider signing up for credit monitoring services, such as My Credit Score through First Reliance Online or Mobile Banking, to easily track any changes to your credit score.

Protecting Your Family's Identity

Review the apps on your children's devices. Limit location tracking, establish strong and unique passwords, and ensure their online accounts don't contain personal information.

For older family members, you might consider adding a trusted individual to their financial accounts to receive notifications about any unusual activity.

How First Reliance Bank Can Help

At First Reliance Bank, we are committed to promoting customer safety and well-being. The Alerts feature on First Reliance Online and Mobile Banking can help monitor suspicious transaction activity on your accounts. Plus, it is easy to set up an alert, so follow along and contact us if you have difficulties:

Step 1: Log onto Online or Mobile Banking

Step 2: Select the account you would like to set alerts on

Step 3: Click on Alerts on Online Banking and on Mobile Banking Click on Manage Alerts. From here, you will find several Alert choices to set up. The Alerts become effective as soon as you set them up. You may also set up Security Alerts and Messaging Alerts in the Global Alerts section.

For more information on fraud education and prevention, visit the Fraud Education library on our homepage.