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Credit Card Security Center
Resources to Protect Your Credit Card
At Citadel Credit Union, your security is our number one priority. As a valued member, you have access to these digital tools and security offerings:
Set Controls for Your Cards
Turn your cards on/off, set spending limits, and manage location settings in Online & Mobile Banking. Learn More.
Get Real-Time Account Alerts
Set up custom account alerts in Online & Mobile Banking to get notified by text message, email, or push notifications for transactions and other card activity. Learn More.
Security & Fraud Monitoring Services
We are committed to keeping our members safe – that’s why we monitor for suspicious transaction and credit card activity. We offer several options to help you protect your accounts:
Automatic Mobile Alerts
We’ll send an alert to your mobile phone when potentially fraudulent activity is detected on your credit card.
➜ Text & Voice Alerts
We’ve partnered with SMS Services to provide real-time fraud alerts via text message or digital voice phone alerts. Register online.
➜ Citadel Identity Theft Protection
As a valued member, you have access to the nation’s most trusted identity detection and recovery services. Enroll now.
Built-In Credit Card Security Features
- Contactless Cards – your contactless card uses the latest chip security, so it is just as safe as inserting a chip card. Explore Now.
- EMV Chip Enabled – all Citadel credit cards have EMV chips, making it safe and secure pay at chip-enabled terminals. Learn more.
- Mastercard ID Theft Protection™ – provides you with access to a number of identity theft resolution services. Enroll now.
- Mastercard Global Service™ – provides worldwide, 24-hour assistance with reporting and replacing a lost or stolen credit card. Simply call the phone number on the back of your card.
Learn How to Protect Yourself
How To Set Up Card Controls
You can protect your Citadel credit and debit cards by setting up travel notices and custom card controls in Online & Mobile Banking. Add details about your travel plans & destinations to help us identify and prevent fraud on your accounts, and enable custom settings to decide how and where your card can be used. You can block or allow certain retailers, types of transactions, and set spending limits for all card users. Here's how it works.
How to Set Up Mobile Wallets
Make contactless payments from your phone or mobile device by adding your Citadel debit and credit cards to your mobile wallet. It’s easy to set up – watch this quick tutorial to learn how to link your cards to Apple Pay or Google Pay and start making secure mobile payments.
Citadel is dedicated to protecting the finances, privacy, and data of our customers.
Learn MoreFrequently Asked Questions
The chip alone does not make your card more secure. A chip transaction adds another layer of security to cards by requiring the chip to produce a single-use code to validate the transaction — further protecting your card from unauthorized use. This process makes your chip card information more difficult to steal and therefore makes your chip card more difficult to counterfeit.
The chip is just one additional layer of protection. The chip alone does not make your card more secure. A chip transaction adds another layer of security to cards by requiring the chip to produce a single-use code to validate the transaction — further protecting your card from unauthorized use. This process makes your chip card information more difficult to steal, and therefore makes your chip card more difficult to counterfeit.
Instead of swiping the card at the merchant card reader, you’ll insert it into the slot in the front of the chip card reader. Leave the card in the chip card reader until your purchase is complete. If a signature is required, just sign, and always remember to take your card when you’re done.
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