Phishing Emails
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Are you inadvertantly creating "Phishing" links?
If your emails contain text of a website address that you have made a hyperlink from, then you should be aware that you may be misconstrued as "Phishing" your recipients.
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a technique used by hackers to scam email recipients into believing they are being contacted by, for example, their bank. The trick is to make the email and its links look like it is legitimately from a company, when, in fact, the links take you off to a rogue website intended to capture secure information.
You may unwittingly be sending Phishing emails to your recipients by creating hyperlinks from the text of a website address. For example, if you type "www.google.com" into the Etelligent editor, the actual HTML link that the recipient receives in their email will not be direct to Google's website; it will replaced by an Etelligent tracking URL that then re-directs the clicker to the Google website. This discrepency between the textual content of the email and the underlying link code could flag a security warning for some recipients.
How do you avoid this?
Instead of typing "www.google.com" into your email, instead type Google and then create a hyperlink from this.
Related Topics
Emails | Link to External WebPage
Useful links
Read more about Phishing on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
