Protect your financial identity by reading about the current phishing, vhising, and identity theft scams here.
New: 8-18-2011
Website Scam:
This 'pop-up'website (http://creditchecknow2011.com) is pretending to be affiliated with Hawthorne Credit Union. Hawthorne Credit Union is NOT affiliated with them in any way. This website will ask you to sign up for a Credit Report, but will ask for your credit card information. These pop-up windows are usually viruses or spyware/maluware that are installed on your computer. Its best practice to keep your Anti Virus software up to date, and regularly clean out your temporary Internet folder.
(Here is an example of the message)
Attention Hawthornecu.org Visitor,
Data Security Breach Information
We want to make you aware of a situation that has occurred that could be related to your personal information. Recently, there was a massive system breach at Epsilon, a third party vendor that supplies marketing services to a number of companies, including Chase, Verizon, Visa, Target, Best Buy, American Express, Hawthornecu.org, US Bank and many others. Files containing personal customer information were compromised.
Customer names, email addresses and some account details were exposed. Because of the increased risk of identity theft, we are urging you to check your credit report for any activity that you did not authorize.
To help protect you against this data breach, we have made your credit score available at no charge until 11:59 pm, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Please be aware that although your credit score is free, a credit card will be required to validate your identity.
*Please Note: Your updated Credit Score is available for FREE Today, Wednesday, July 27, 2011.
Your credit score is updated on a monthly basis.
This page is neither affiliated nor sponsored by Hawthornecu.org .
