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Seminars
Throughout the year, The Village Bank hosts seminars on a variety of topics including home owners, fraud awareness and more.
Visit this page regularly, or follow the Bank on social media, for upcoming events.
Upcoming events
Fraud Awareness Seminar
Wednesday, December 3
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Auburndale Office
307 Auburn Street
Join us for a timely, eye-opening discussion about the world of cyber deception and financial fraud. The Village Bank fraud team and the Newton Police Department will touch on current trends (or threats) and red flags that affect all citizens. Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and learn about protecting your assets.
One lucky participant will win a $150 gift card* to Tartufo Restaurant!
RSVP today by emailing CorpReceptionist@village-bank.com
(please note email is not secure).
*$150 gift card, December 3, 2025. This promotion is available to individuals who attend the seminar in person. Drawing will occur at the conclusion of the seminar. Village Bank employees and their immediate family members are not eligible. No purchase, account opening, or final transaction is required to win.
Seminar Highlights
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Fraud Prevent Tips
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So another small fact I just wanna throw out to you guys, uh, having to deal with the checking, washing out.
We’ve mentioned a couple ways to try to avoid that. Uh, but another small way to avoid that is there’s certain pens out there that, uh, gel pens.
Have you guys heard about it before? Yeah. Oh, great. So, so if you use a gel pen, it’s harder for them to wash.
Now it’s not a hundred percent, I’m sure. You know, we try to keep up with them. They probably try to keep up with that as well.
So I’m sure eventually they’re gonna find a way to wash gel pens as well. But if you can use a gel pen, just adds a little bit, tiny bit more security.
IRS is never gonna be calling anybody looking for gift cards as payment. So they’re gonna call saying they’re with the IRS, that they need to get money, they’re gonna ask for it in gift cards. Um, while they’re doing this scam, they also can spoof their caller id. So the number that you’re seeing, they’ll use as a Washington DC phone number.
So people will get the call. See that? It’s the IRS that plays into the emotions in regards to, you know, people hearing that the IRS is looking for them or trying to get money from them. Uh, that should be a red flag right there. Gift card flag, that’s not, not real.
These you can report to, um, two different FTC. So it’s a federal trade commission. Uh, the tax administration too.
Fraudsters will have you read off a code from your phone. And the those codes are legitimate codes. They’re sent from a legitimate company, but giving it to the fraudster means that they now have the access that normally you would be the one requesting.
So an RSA is a, is a two-factor authentication system. It generates a one-time passcode.
They’re very hard to crack, and so people prefer them and companies prefer them for that reason. They’re highly secure.
But fraudsters seek this code to gain unauthorized access to online profiles, bank accounts, uh, social media, other applications.
So never give out an RSA code to anyone that you cannot confirm is legitimate.
So if, if you’re talking to the bank and the bank is sending you a code and you’re worried that you’re gonna give it out to somebody, feel free to hang up, go to our website and go to the, the number that’s there and call that.