protect yourself against phishing

Verify the URL of the pages you use.

·                         Verify the URL of the web page before entering any personal data such as your e-mail address and password.

·                         SWIFT always uses a secure connection to ask for your e-mail address and password. The URL used by SWIFT starts withhttps://www2.swift.com/

Verify the certificate of the secure website.

·                         In most browsers this is done by clicking on the lock symbol either at the top or the bottom of the browser window. Certificates from SWIFT are issued by Akamai Technologies.

Use a recent browser.

·                         Upgrade your browser to a recent version that includes anti-phishing features, for instance Internet Explorer 7 or 8 and Firefox 3.

Use a login-seal to protect the login page on swift.com

·                         A login-seal is a private image or text that you can upload to swift.com, and that is displayed on the login page.
If you see this login seal on the login page, you are sure that it comes from swift.com and is not a phishing attack. Even without being registered on swift.com, you can setup a login-seal.

·                          To setup a login-seal click on the Customer Login button on the swift.com home page. This will display the login screen where you will see the link to setup a login-seal.

·                         The maximum size of an image that I can upload as login-seal is 5 Mb.

·                         SWIFT will set a cookie on your PC with a reference number to the login-seal to be displayed.

·                         Only swift.com knows which login-seal corresponds to this reference number, so only swift.com will be able to display the correct image or text that you have defined.

Anybody who uses your PC will see the login seal. Therefore, do not use confidential data as your login-seal.