The Idaho Department of Finance in partnership with the Idaho Scam Jam Alliance is pleased to share a series of upcoming educational events aimed at furthering consumer awareness of financial frauds and scams, including how to prevent, identify, and report, attempts from bad actors…

Patricia Perkins, Director of the Idaho Department of Finance, is warning consumers to look closely at incoming mail that may appear to be correspondence from regulated consumer lenders but are really third-party advertisements or even scams.

Imposter scams are a growing threat to consumers nationwide, and Idahoans are being targeted at an alarming rate, along with consumers throughout the country.

The Idaho Department of Finance (Department), with the cooperation of Trust and Estate Services Company of Idaho d/b/a TrESCo of Idaho (TrESCo), issued a Consent Order requiring TrESCo to comply with the statutory requirements of the Idaho Trust Institutions Act and no longer engage in unauthorized trust activity in Idaho. TrESCo agreed to either obtain a trust charter from the Department or remove itself as trustee or agent for all accounts that constitute unauthorized trust activity.