What you can do to Protect your Personal Information

Protect your Password

Choose passwords that are difficult for others to guess and change your password periodically. Magna Bank requires your Internet Banking password to be at least 8 characters long and must contain both alphabetic characters and numbers. In addition, because the alphabetic characters are case sensitive, we recommend that you user a combination of upper and lower case letters.

Leave suspicious sites. If you suspect that a website is not what it purports to be, leave the site immediately. Do not follow any of the instructions it presents.
Do not send sensitive personal or financial information unless it is encrypted on a secure website. Look for the padlock symbol at the bottom of the browser screen to ensure that the site is running in secure mode BEFORE you send sensitive information.
Do business with only companies you know and trust.

Be alert for scam emails and don't reply to any e-mail that requests your personal information. Be very suspicious of any email from a business or person that asks you to provide or confirm your password, Social Security Number, or other highly sensitive information.
If you get an email that warns you, with little or no notice, that an account of yours will be shut down unless you confirm your billing information, do not reply or click on a link in the email. Instead, contact the company cited in the email using a telephone number or Web site address you know to be genuine.
If you need to update your information online, use the normal process you have used before, or open a new browser window and type in the website address yourself.
If a website address is unfamiliar, it is probably not real. Only use the address that you have used before, or start at your normal home page.
Open emails only when you know the sender. Be especially careful about opening email with an attachment. Even a friend may accidentally send an email with a virus.

Make sure you home computer has the most current anti-virus software. Anti-virus software needs frequent updates to guard against new viruses. Make sure you download the anti-virus updates as soon as you are notified that a download is available.
Install a personal firewall to help prevent unauthorized access to your home computer. This is especially important if you connect to the internet via a cable modem or a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem.
Monitor your transactions. Review you order confirmations and bank account statements as soon as you receive them to make sure you are being charged only for transaction you made. Immediately report any irregularities in your Magna Bank accounts.