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In this article you will learn how to protect your QuickBooks Payment Account from Suspicious Activities. To know more contact QuickBooks Support.

In your QuickBooks Payments account, get tips to prevent suspicious activities or identity theft.

Follow our guidelines to make sure that your account is safe as identity theft and suspicious activities are growing industry concerns.

What is Phishing?

The act of stealing sensitive info like usernames and passwords in a disguise of a  trustworthy sender is known as Phishing.

What are Phishing emails?

Please note: In an email, intuit or QuickBooks never asks for sensitive information.

Phishing email is an email that imitates a trusted brand and asks you to sign in with your credentials to a websites that look real but is not real. Ensure that your account is protected. Follow these steps when you receive an email:

• Listed below are few questions that you need to ask yourself:
• Is the sender’s email address recognizable?
• Are there grammatical or spelling errors in the message that you see?
• With what you would expect from the sender, is the tone consistent?
• Are you being asked by the sender asking to urgently select a link in the message?
• Are you being threatened by the sender that you may lose access to your account?

Make sure that it’s a trusted site like www.quickbooksupport.net before you open a link in an email. Search the site in your browser if it looks suspicious. In a suspicious email, don’t select any links.

If you have a suspicious email in your mail box, forward it to spoof@intuit.com. To keep tracking info, don’t cut or paste content. You should delete the email from your inbox.

For latest security updates on phishing attacks, you can visit our security page .

Monitoring your account activity.

In your QuickBooks or the Merchant Service Center website, regularly check users that have access to your account. Select the Account tab and then Users, to see the list of users.

Select Transactions to check for any transactions that you don’t recognize in your Activity & Reports.

Contact us if there is a bank account change notification that you didn’t initiate.

How to deal with disputes in a QuickBooks Payments Account?

Please Note: To find our website, do not use the search bar of your browser. As there are some suspicious websites that can cause harm to your account or computer. For such purposes, you can refer to links that we have sent in our email or visit our website directly.

• If you think that there is a potential harm to your QuickBooks Payments account, you need to do the following:
• On all your online and email accounts, change the passwords.
• On all your online accounts, check if your contact info is updated. Ensure that there’s no unknown phone number or email address.
• On all your online and email accounts, change the passwords.
• You can also place a fraud alert.
• You can file a police report as well. To help us work with your credit agencies, contact local law enforcement authorities.
• Also, ensure that your computer and terminal server was not compromised.
• Keep an eye on your online accounts, account info, and credit report.
• In case of Identity theft
• One can use the stolen money from your accounts, open new accounts, obtain services, and commit other crimes—all using your personal or business identity when your personal or business info is compromised.

Account Passwords

Always use secured account passwords to protect your account from any suspicious activity. Follow the tips given below:

• For your email and Intuit account, use different passwords. By doing this you ensure that when you confirm any password changes, you can manage two separate passwords.
• Make sure you are not sharing your account passwords with others.
• Also make sure you change your passwords regularly.

A strong password must have the following characteristics:

• It should be more than 8 characters long
• It should have a combination of lower case, upper case, a number, and a special character foe e.g. ~!@#$%^&*()_+=?><.,/
• It should not contain a word or any date which is associated with you like birthdays, family names, your name, address or phone number
• It should be a combination of unusual capitalization, numbers, and special characters. One should use misspelled words as they are stronger because they are not in the dictionary.
• It should be something that you can remember
• It should not be the same with other online accounts

Our Risk department will investigate the case within a few business days when you report any suspicious activity in your account. All processing fees for transactions that are stolen or fraudulent cards and checks will be waived off. But, you could be held financially responsible if your personal account was compromised.

To know more on how to protect your QuickBooks Payment Account from Suspicious Activities in QuickBooks desktop, call on our QuickBooks support number. You can also write to us at support@quickbooksupport.net. For more information visit – www.quickbooksupport.net.