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The Bank of Greene County is urging its customers to use discretion when discussing personal financial information over the phone in light of a recent incident in which a customer was offered a credit card with an activation fee during a call originating from Canada.
Home mortgage scammers and spammers are working overtime this spring, trying to tempt consumers into bad loans or to steal personal data and sell it to the highest bidder.