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Archive for month: April, 2015
Casual Fridays For Charity at F&M Bank Branches
Casual Fridays For Charity at F&M Bank Branches
April 2015 marks the fifth month that F&M Bank employees have contributed $5 a week in exchange for the chance to wear jeans on Fridays. On the last Friday of each month, the contributions are totaled and a deserving nonprofit is the recipient of these contributions, which have averaged $926 per month.
April 17, 2015
April marks the fifth month that F&M Bank employees have contributed $5 a week in exchange for the chance to wear jeans on Fridays. On the last Friday of each month, the contributions are totaled and a deserving nonprofit is the recipient of these contributions, which have averaged $926 per month.
We even had one charitable customer in Elkton contribute to April’s non-profit. A big thank you to her for her generosity!
The full list of employee-chosen non-profit organizations is below. Thank you for supporting us as we support our communities!
December 2014 Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
January 2015 Elkton Area United Services
February 2015 Friendship Industries
March 2015 Central VA Habitat for Humanity
April 2015 H-R Free Clinic/RESPONSE (Shen. Co)
May 2015 Harrisonburg-Rockingham SPCA
June 2015 Life Center of Page Valley
July 2015 Shenandoah Alliance for Shelter
August 2015 Shenandoah County Free Clinic
September 2015 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
October 2015 Still Meadows Enrichment Center
November 2015 Wounded Warriors
December 2015 Employees vote for 2016 non-profit organizations
Read more>> How “Casual Fridays” Got Its Start
Did you know we offer a credit card that supports Brethren Disaster Ministries?
Brethren Disaster Ministries CC FAQ
Online Banking Browser Requirements
F&M Bank’s Online Banking program supports the latest version of Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Each time a new version of these browsers is released the bank encourages you to update your internet browser for the best online experience.
Sophisticated fraud scheme is targeting large and medium-sized U.S. companies, bank customers
The Dyre Wolf
IBM has uncovered a new and effective strategy criminals use to compromise consumers’ online banking accounts and send unauthorized wires on their behalf. The scheme, which IBM security researchers have dubbed, “The Dyre Wolf,” is targeting people working in companies by sending spam email with unsafe attachments. If the end user clicks on the attachment to download, the person’s (and company’s) computer are then infected with malware. The sophisticated malware then waits silently until it recognizes that the user is visiting a bank website.
April 7, 2015
IBM has uncovered a new and effective strategy criminals use to compromise consumers’ online banking accounts and send unauthorized wires on their behalf. The scheme, which IBM security researchers have dubbed, “The Dyre Wolf,” is targeting people working in companies by sending spam email with unsafe attachments. If the end user clicks on the attachment to download, the person’s (and company’s) computer are then infected with malware. The sophisticated malware then waits silently until it recognizes that the user is visiting a bank website.
The program then generates a “pop up” screen that the bank’s website is having problems and asks the victim to contact the bank at a specific phone number. If the victim calls the number, the criminals are on the other end acting as the bank and offering “help” when actually gathering the user’s information. This scam results with criminals logging in to the victim’s commercial internet banking account and originating a wire to an unauthorized account. The criminals have also been known to generate a Denial of Service (DOS) attack on the victim’s IT infrastructure to prevent the victim from logging in to his or her internet banking account to delay detection of the fraud.
Please be aware of this scam as it has the potential to make its way to the Valley, as have prior scams.
For your security, F&M Bank does not permit wire originations through internet banking. F&M Bank will also always communicate a website or online banking service interruption in advance on our homepage (www.fmbankva.com), via email to customers, and on its Facebook and Twitter pages.
Read more at Reuters about this scam.
