Child Benefit ID Fraud Risk Article Discussion

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I got the letter too, but it was sealed.

wannaberich41 ~ if you haven't received the letter you should be ok.

loopy_lass

Browntoa wrote: »

both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 both have Anti-Phishing built in

make sure they are on......

Free and simple

sorry to be thick, i use firefox, but dont really know what needs to be turned on to prevent this anti phishing thing. can someone tell me what to look for? thanks

loops

Browntoa

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/

Phishing Protection options can be found on the Security preferences pane. On Windows and Linux, go to Tools > Options ... > Security. On Mac OS X, go to Firefox > Preferences > Options ... > Security.
You can test to see if Phishing Protection is enabled by browsing to our test site. If Phishing Protection is turned on, a warning dialog will appear.

sara_501

I didn't receive a letter of apology, though if they're going out unsealed (and with the way the mail has been performing lately, letters going astray etc) I suppose I should be thankful

Savvy_Sue

Not having had a letter wouldn't reassure me at all, I'm afraid! So much of our post never arrives, I'm sure some if it ends up at the local Ministry of Defence HQ (our house has a similar name). We get some of theirs, of course, just wish I had the nous to do something profitable with it!

andyrules

Browntoa wrote: »

both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 both have Anti-Phishing built in

make sure they are on......

Free and simple

How do you check which IE you are running?

ollyk

James wrote: »

www.freeidprotection.co.uk (Check out the Media articles on the Home Page).

I honestly don't know whether that idea is good or absolutely crazy :rolleyes:

I suspect the latter!

Savvy_Sue

andyrules wrote: »

How do you check which IE you are running?

I think you would click on Help, Properties ... but as I'm on Firefox at the mo I can't check for you!

Or when you've got the icon on your desktop, right click on that and look at Properties.

andyrules

Cheers, I did that already but it didn't specify anything.

Savvy_Sue

Oh right. Does the icon on your desktop not tell you what version you're running? Or is it when you click on 'About' that it does that? It works that way for Firefox and I thought it was that way for IE too ...

Alternatively, just download Firefox ... although there's some banking sites it doesn't work properly for!