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From Puppies to Tech Support: 10 Scams Targeting Your Older Members

POSTED BY COLLEEN KELLY June is Elder Abuse Awareness month, an excellent time for credit union staff to brush up on the latest scams targeting older members. Up to five million older Americans are abused every year, and the annual loss by victims of financial abuse is estimated to be at least $36.5 billion. People […]

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Protecting Our Members’ Accounts

Protecting our members’ accounts against fraud is one of our credit union’s highest priorities. As part of our normal course of business, we take innumerable actions every day to keep our members’ information safe against security risks. It has almost become a weekly norm that we see suspicious activity on some member accounts and our card security partners […]

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A message from the President and CEO

2021 was an exciting, very eventful, and challenging year. We ended 2020 as Penobscot County Federal Credit Union and The County Federal Credit Union and, starting on January 1st of 2021, merged into one credit union family. From there, as you have probably noticed, it has never slowed down! One of everyone’s most significant challenges […]

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‘The County’ is one of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Maine

The County Federal Credit Union was recently named as one of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Maine. The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of the Society for Human Resource Management – Maine State Council (MESHRM) and Best Companies Group. Partners endorsing the program include Mainebiz, the Maine State […]

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