Simple safeguards can help you to protect your accounts and save you from losing your hard earned money. A small list of safeguards is provided below:
General:
- Inform us when you change your
- Name
- Address
- Contact Number
- Email address
- Check your statement/passbook regularly and immediately inform your home branch for any discrepancy.
- In the event of your cheque leave(s)/ book, passbook, is lost or stolen, immediately inform your Home Branch of the bank,so that suitable measures can be taken to prevent misuse of the same.
- Never respond to emails that request personal information. Kindly note that the Bank/RBI/Income Tax Department will never ask for details about your Account / PINs or Passwords.
- Please operate your account at frequent intervals .
- After submitting any written communication to the bank, always ensure to collect acknowledgement from the Bank officials. This will help you for future reference.
- Change and memorize your PIN, password and other security information received by you.
- Do not disclose your card, PIN, password or other security information to anyone else.
- Change your PIN/Password at regular intervals.
- Do not introduce any person to the Bank who is not personally known to you for the purpose of opening account.
- Do not keep your passbook, cheque book, ATM/Debit card together.
- Always maintain the minimum balance as specified by the bank.
- Note down account numbers, details of FDR,locker number,etc.separately.
- Pay Interest, Installments, Locker Rent and other dues on time.
- Avail Standing Instruction facility for repeated transactions.
- Take necessary precaution to ensure that account is not used for money laundering or for any fraudulent transaction.
- Do not record your specimen signature either on passbook or on cheque book
Communication:
- Give a written instruction in case you wish to stop payment of a cheque or cancel standing instruction or a direct debit. We recommend that you inform the originator of the direct debit also, viz, utility companies, etc.
- Ensure to register your Mobile number with us and get SMS Alerts to keep track of any transactions in your account.
- Register your email id with us.
- Please write legibly and avoid overwriting .
Cheque book and Cheque leaves:
- Ensure that the cheque book is kept in a safe place.
- Ensure that the name of the payee on cheque is clearly mentioned.
- Draw a line through unused space on the cheque to avoid any unauthorised additions.
- Make sure that the date is written correctly and that the cheque is signed.
- As far as possible, issue crossed / account payee cheques.
- Avoid overwriting on cheques.
- Do not keep signed blank cheque leaves.
- Before dropping cheque in the cheque drop box, please ensure that at the back of the cheque the account number and mobile number are mentioned.
- While tendering any clearing cheque at the branch for collection, obtain acknowledgement from the bank officials.
Grievances:
- Complaints / grievances should be reported to the Home Branch as soon as possible. This will help us to get your complaint / grievance redressed expeditiously.
- You can send your complaint / grievance through E-mail of your Home Branch.