• Avoid accessing your Internet Banking account from a cyber cafe or a shared computer.
• Every time you complete your online banking session, log off from site. Do not just close your browser.
• To access the site on internet, always type in the correct URL into your browser window. Never click a link that offers to take you to the website.
• If your log-in IDs or passwords appear automatically on the sign-in page of a secure website, you should disable the ‘Auto Complete’ function.
• Use letters, numbers and special characters [such as !,@, #,$, %, ^, &,* (, )] in your passwords to make it complex and difficult for others to guess.
• Never share your Internet Banking passwords with others, even family members. Do not reveal them to anybody.
• Do not respond to any mails asking for confidential information like PIN, password or account number.
• Always check for Pad Lock icon (There is a de facto standard among web browsers to display a Padlock icon somewhere in the window of the browser)
• Check the web page’s URL. When browsing the web, the URLs (web page addresses) begin with the letters ‘http’. However, over a secure connection, the address displayed should begin with ‘https’ – note the ‘s’ at the end.
• Always check the last log-in to your Internet Banking account.
