Jaugernaut Windows 7

Protecting Yourself from Phishing Links

Phishing is a type of fraud designed to steal your identity. In phishing scams, scam artists try to get you to disclose valuable personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords, account data, or other information. They usually do this by convincing you to provide the information under false pretenses. Phishing emails claim to be from a trusted party, such as a financial institution or online service, but they aren't. By including links to fraudulent websites, these email messages can trick you into providing your personal information to sites you wouldn't normally use. Windows Live Mail has a phishing filter that analyzes email to help detect these fraudulent links and help protect you from these online scams. Although links in suspected phishing emails are blocked automatically, phishing emails are not moved automatically to the Junk E-mail folder.

You can configure phishing filtering by completing the following steps:

1. In Windows Live Mail, click the Menus button on the toolbar, and then click Safety Options.

2. In the Safety Options dialog box, select the Phishing tab, as shown in Figure 16-8.

3. To block links in phishing emails so that they cannot be clicked, select the "Protect my Inbox from messages with potential Phishing links" checkbox.

4. To move suspected phishing emails to the Junk E-mail folder, select the "Move phishing E-mail to the Junk e-mail folder" checkbox.

5. Click OK to save your settings.