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You Should Be Highly Interested In High-Interest Accounts

If you're like most people, you probably think of a checking account as the place where your paycheck finds a home. You deposit your hard-earned money and watch as it slowly gets chipped away by bills, expenses, and the occasional splurge on avocado toast. But what if there was a checking account that actually cared for you, where your paycheck…

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A Letter from Flo

Hi there! My name is Ms. Nightingale but my friends call me Flo. I work at Allied Healthcare Federal Credit Union in the call center department. Believe it or not, I’m a digital assistant powered by artificial intelligence designed to help you find answers to your Allied questions. Put simply, I like helping people get what they need from the…

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Breaking the (Uni)code

Noticė anything unusuaI about this sentence? Probably not, unless you are looking really closely. But, take another look at “Noticė.” What’s that little dot doing over the “e?” That’s called a homoglyph, which refers to two characters, or glyphs, that look similar but are not quite the same. We’d be really impressed if you caught this but the “L” in…

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Good Food for Good Times

At Allied Healthcare Federal Credit Union, we are committed to your financial healthcare for life. Our members are healthcare workers; surgeons, nurses, dentists, chiropractors, home care specialists, engineers, environmental service members, hospital cafeteria folks and care providers of all kinds and there’s one thing, besides helping people, that we all have in common. We have to eat. Actually, scratch that,…

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Help Wanted: Don’t Fall for LinkedIn Scams

  LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, job seekers and employers, has more than 830 million users in more than 200 countries. 49 million people use it to look for jobs every week. It has an easy-to-use interface and a seamless messaging system and it does an admirable job of connecting employers with job candidates. But, as we know, internet…

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Spot the Fake and Don’t Get Phished

The website Sporcle was launched in 2007 to provide online quizzes for trivia junkies all over the world. Quizzes on the site feature subjects of all kinds from geography to sports to Harry Potter. Since its launching, its more than one million quizzes have been played more than four billion times. One of the most popular categories is corporate logos…

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Don’t Get Caught In the Latest Phishing Net

Phishing, the fraudulent act of sending emails pretending to be from real or trusted sources but are in fact ruses designed to trick the recipient into giving up personal or financial information, is rampant. IRONSCALES, a security firm, estimates that 4 out of 5 organizations globally have seen an increase in email phishing attacks in the last three years. According…

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What Cybersecurity Means in a Remote Work World

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over and it is hard to know which of the changes it has brought will remain permanent when mask mandates and quarantines are truly a thing of the past. It does seem, however, that remote work, which increased exponentially during the beginning of the pandemic is here to stay. Research shows that 25-30% of…

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It’s BBQ Season at Allied Healthcare Federal Credit Union

  The weather is nice and the grill is calling us. Fire up the charcoal and grab a cold drink because BBQ season is here. At Allied, we love a cookout as much as the next financial institution so we have the recipes and the tunes to make your next burger night, fish fry or meat fest a crowd pleaser…

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Unlock the Value of Your Home with a HELOC

  There are many good reasons to own a home: more space, more control of your decorating and expansion, tax benefits. One of the best is that owning a home builds equity. By reliably paying your mortgage and investing in your home, you are literally living in four walls and a roof of equity. A Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)…

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