Fraud Protection

Gulf Coast Bank offers Digital Banking and Alerts to help you monitor personal accounts and Business Solutions, such as Digital Business Banking and Positive Pay, to help you monitor your business accounts activity. Signing up for these services will allow you to identify fraudulent transactions sooner; therefore allowing you to notify Gulf Coast Bank. Experts also suggest you replace paper invoices, statements and checks with electronic versions, if offered by your employer, bank, utility provider or merchant. Gulf Coast Bank offers eStatements for both personal and business accounts. Below you will find additional resources:

  • Online Security Statement

  • Privacy Policy

  • Debit Card Fraud Protection

  • CardPlus App To Safeguard Your Debit Cards From Fraud

  • Email Policy

Time is money. Gulf Coast Bank offers innovative, sophisticated information access and reporting to save you time so you can focus on the day to day operation of growing your business. It is not our practice to:

  • Send an e-mail that will require you to enter personal or financial information directly into an e-mail

  • We will never send you an e-mail threatening to close your account if you do not take the immediate action of providing personal information

  • We will never share your name with any contacts outside our company in a manner that would be inconsistent with our Privacy Policy.

Fraud Alerts

The FDIC does not directly contact consumers, nor does the FDIC request bank customers to install software upgrades. Information about counterfeit items, cyber-fraud incidents, and other fraudulent activity may be forwarded to the FDIC's Cyber-Fraud and Financial Crimes Section, 3501 North Fairfax Drive, CH-11034, Arlington, Virginia 22226, or transmitted electronically to alert@fdic.gov. Questions related to federal deposit insurance or consumer issues should be submitted to the FDIC by clicking here. For your reference, FDIC Special Alerts may be accessed from the FDIC's website. To learn how to automatically receive FDIC Special Alerts through e-mail, please click here.

Nacha, the electronic payments association, does not process nor touch the ACH transactions that flow to and from organizations and financial institutions. Nacha does not send communications to persons or organizations about individual ACH transactions that they originate or receive. For additional information and guidance, please click here to visit the Nacha website for consumers.

Click here to visit the Federal Trade Commission's page to view the current scam alerts.