HINTS AND TIPS

How to Safe Time and Money with Receiving E-mails:

• Microsoft Outlook has the option to create E-Mail rules, which could be set upon your own selection of criteria.
  
  It takes time browsing through tens or hundreds of e-mails everyday.  Valuable hours are lost every day, due to time spent on SPAM, marketing e-mails and the like.
  
  Set your own rules in Outlook so that messages from a specific person, or with a specific subject, will be send to a dedicated folder automatically.  
  
  You only have to set the rule once, and if you do this for 10 regular e-mails received on a daily basis, you could save as much as between 10 and 20 hours a year on these 10 messages alone.

Security Hints & Tips:

When you work with Internet Banking, 

1. Always type the address in the navigation bar, don't access the website from an internet link in an e-mail message or even from your desktop
   
2. Always ensure that the address starts with HTTPS:  (The "S" is very important for security reasons)
   
3. Most banks have the option to install a "secure client" on your workstation.  Find out from your bank about this client, but make 100% sure that you download the client from the banks website and not from any other "fake" site.
   
4. Remember that your bank will NEVER send you an e-mail message to request personal information.
   
5. Plenty of E-Mail and SMS messages are going around, informing people about a competition they have won.  Sometimes it's hard to resist calling back or answering the e-mail messages.  These are all scam driven.  You have to be very careful not to fall into any of the traps set by these fraudsters.