Fraud Awareness

Protect Yourself: Essential Fraud Awareness and Prevention Tips.

Fraud Awareness

While Mulcair Credit Union works extremely hard to prevent fraud, it is also the responsibility of all members to remain vigilant and stay informed. Your best defense is to be aware, educate yourself and use good judgement. Don’t fall victim – use the following tips and information to learn how to recognise a scam before it’s too late!

Criminals may attempt to contact you by text, email, and phone pretending to be from your Credit Union or Banks or organisations such as An Post and Amazon trying to gain access to your banking details or card information. Anyone can be the target of financial fraud and scams, and at any time. Your best defence is to stay informed, alert, and secure.

Check out our scam and fraud avoidance tips to stay safe and REMEMBER…

  • Mulcair CU will NEVER send texts that require you to click on a link to action or that request a code

  • AND we will NEVER send text or emails that request a code
  • We will NEVER text or email you claiming that your account has been hacked or blocked
  • Treat any message or email that you receive which has a sense of urgency with suspicion

When in doubt, ALWAYS call us on 061 378 099 to verify the validity of any communication you receive from us.