An important email safety practice is to avoid clicking on links that aren’t safe. This begs the question “How do I know if a link is safe to click?” The truth is you can never be sure, but there are ways of mitigating the risk.
A link’s presentation has two major components:
- The visible text (or image)
- The URL that the link references
These two pieces of information are not required to be related so you can have a link that says “Log in to my bank” but actually takes you to “badwebsite.com”. The trick is to know what the link actually refers to, not what it wants you to think it refers to.
