Add a Security Number to Your Freelancer Profile

Freelancer.com is an online marketplace specializing in freelancing, outsourcing, and crowdsourcing. It is where millions of contractors, PHP developers, graphic artists, web designers, and content writers converge, and where millions of jobs are outsourced at a dizzying speed. One of the most important steps when you make a Freelancer account is to verify your security number. This will ensure that you always have proper access to your account, and your account will also less likely to be compromised. Setting up your security number is fairly easy and can be completed in just a few steps.

Steps

Accessing the Security Number Settings

  1. Go to the Freelancer website. Open your favorite browser, type http://www.freelancer.com into the address bar, and hit the Enter button.
  2. Log into your account. Once you’re on the main page, enter your email address and your password into the appropriate text boxes found at the right side of the screen. Afterwards, click on the login button right below the password box.
  3. Look for the “Edit profile” tab. Once you’re signed in, look for Profile tab on the black bar at the top of the screen. Let your mouse hover over it, and a drop-down menu will then appear. Select the option “Edit profile” to load your settings.
  4. Look for the “Set up security number” button. On the Settings page, scroll down to the bottom until you see “Security phone number” and its gold and black shielded cellphone icon. Directly below is the blue “Set up security number” button. Click on it.

Adding a Security Number

  1. Select your country. Clicking on the “Set up security number” button will display a pop-up window on your screen where you will be asked to provide details about your phone service provider. Select your country by clicking on its name on the drop-down menu.
  2. Enter your phone number. Click inside the Phone Number box, and key in your phone number with the area code first.
  3. Specify how you want to receive your verification code. Once you’ve entered your phone number, indicate how you want your account to be verified by ticking “SMS” (text message) or “Phone.”
  4. Have the verification code sent to you. After indicating your preferred verification method, click on the blue “Send verification code” button found at the bottom of the pop-up window.
  5. Enter the code. If you had picked the SMS method, you will receive a text message containing a five-digit code. If you had chosen the Phone method, you will receive a call and a computerized voice will give you a five-digit number. Whichever method you chose, simply enter the code you’re given into the “Enter code” box that is now found under “Verification method.”
  6. Have the system verify the code. Once you’ve entered the five-digit number, click on the blue “Verify code” button at the bottom of the pop-up window. That is all there is to it, you have successfully set up a security phone number on your account.

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