Banking 101
Bank Acronyms
Hacker Methods
Forms
Fraud and Scams
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What is Citizens Bank Routing or ABA#?

100

FDIC

What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

100

Encrypting files and demanding money in exchange for decryption

What is Ransomware?

100

Form used to stop payment on a future check/ACH

What is a Stop Payment Request?

100

Email looks like a legitimate company asking for personal identifying information

What is a Phishing Scam?

200

This word describes adding money to your checking or savings account?

What is Deposit?

200

BSA

What is Bank Secrecy Act?

200

Manipulating people into divulging personal information

What is Social Engineering? 

200

Form used to stop payment in an ACH already posted to the account

What is Written Statement of Unauthorized Debit? 

200

Check from a sweetheart they have never met and are asked to send money back

What is a Romance Fraud?

300

When you have less money in your account than you actually spent.

What is Insufficient Funds?

300

CTR

What is Currency Transaction Report?

300

Sending emails pretending to be a reputable company to get confidential information

What is Phishing?

300

Form used to put a hold on checks

What is Notice of Delayed Availability? 

300

Customer receives a check from a church in New York, they told him the secretary made a mistake so he needs to send money back to them

What is Check Fraud?

400

The signature on the back of a check

What is Endorsement?
400

CIP

What is Customer Information Policy?

400

Malicious software sent as an attachment to an email

What is Malware?

400

This form is used for debit card fraud

What is Customer Dispute Request?

400

Customer receives a phone call stating they have won Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes. They ask the customer to send money to cover the taxes on their winnings 

What is a Sweepstakes Scam?

500

Banks earn money by giving loans at rates regulated by this body created in 1913

What is Federal Reserve?

500

HMDA

What is Home Mortgage Disclosure Act?
500

An attack meant to shut down a machine or network

What is Denial of Service? 

500

This form is used when we decline to open a new account due to ChexSystems

What is Notice of Adverse Action? 

500

Email that looks like it is from your company CEO asking to have money wired as soon as possible

What is Spoofing or Business Email Compromise? 

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