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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Jul 2017 at 12:20

Just had a mail from HMRC because I have a change in tax code, included in the mail is this statement (thread title)

Its the first time I have seen it, but how bloody well thought out is that!

If all legit companies/bodies etc stopped sending links then far less people would fall for clicking them.

Top thumbs up from me to HMRC for this

jsmoke · 7 Jul 2017 at 12:26

adolf hamster · 7 Jul 2017 at 12:29

good move, i make a point of never clicking on any links like that, i always navigate to wherever it's suggesting manually.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Jul 2017 at 12:42

adolf hamster said:
good move, i make a point of never clicking on any links like that, i always navigate to wherever it's suggesting manually.

I am the same, but you never know when you may just have that brain fart and use a link, say your super in a rush and trying to do something else and an email turns up that you think you need to do something with.

As generally the advice is "don't clink links, then why do they send them

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adolf hamster · 7 Jul 2017 at 12:45

yeah, a little common sense goes a long way

D3K · 7 Jul 2017 at 12:56

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
say your super in a rush and trying to do something else and an email turns up that you think you need to do something with.

It doesn't matter how much of a rush I'm in, I'll never click a link unless I know the source is genuine, or I've checked the header for the real e-mail address. People need to be educated on this aspect, rather than expecting companies to make everything foolproof for them.

adolf hamster · 7 Jul 2017 at 13:02

D3K said:
It doesn't matter how much of a rush I'm in, I'll never click a link unless I know the source is genuine, or I've checked the header for the real e-mail address. People need to be educated on this aspect, rather than expecting companies to make everything foolproof for them.

agreed, if i'm in a rush i just ignore it and deal with it later. realistically i don't adhere, nor expect for people, to reply to emails more than once a day.

a bit of common sense is required, scams aren't some magical creation of the internet, all the internet has done is amplify them (like it's amplified every aspect of humanity)

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 7 Jul 2017 at 13:26

D3K said:
It doesn't matter how much of a rush I'm in, I'll never click a link unless I know the source is genuine, or I've checked the header for the real e-mail address. People need to be educated on this aspect, rather than expecting companies to make everything foolproof for them.

Nice selective quoting, as I clearly said "have a brain fart".

Its no different to when your thinking of something else when driving, your subconcious takes over and works in a different way to when your actively thinking of something.
Its why learner drivers have to think about what they are doing, but an experienced driver will do things without needing to actively think about them.

People are educated, thats not the issue at all. I know someone who was a vocal, you should never click them, I never do, blah blah, then one day he did

As I said above, if all legit businesses etc just put a statement like that then the non-legit ones will stand out as people will think, "huh thats wierd why would my bank send me a link", rather than "oh lookie, a nice linky from my bank arent they nave saving me 3 seconds going to a diff tab to log on"

My company do it. message to staff "dont clink links" , message on outgoing mails "here is our twitter, facebook, and a nice clicky link for you here"

adolf hamster · 7 Jul 2017 at 13:30

^it's not really that hard a policy to adhere to though, at least i've never found it to be any trouble. anybody contacting me with a link i know how to get to the legit site easily enough through bookmarks or google.

if you know what you're looking for then spotting a scam is easy enough, i keep getting ones telling me about my paypal account but the link is @paypal.e.com (don't click that)

D3K · 7 Jul 2017 at 13:40

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Nice selective quoting, as I clearly said "have a brain fart".

Its no different to when your thinking of something else when driving, your subconcious takes over and works in a different way to when your actively thinking of something.
Its why learner drivers have to think about what they are doing, but an experienced driver will do things without needing to actively think about them.

People are educated, thats not the issue at all. I know someone who was a vocal, you should never click them, I never do, blah blah, then one day he did

As I said above, if all legit businesses etc just put a statement like that then the non-legit ones will stand out as people will think, "huh thats wierd why would my bank send me a link", rather than "oh lookie, a nice linky from my bank arent they nave saving me 3 seconds going to a diff tab to log on"

My company do it. message to staff "dont clink links" , message on outgoing mails "here is our twitter, facebook, and a nice clicky link for you here"

You've been a member since 2007 so you have at least a decade of experience with this stuff. If you still click links it's not really a brain fart, more a brain explosion.

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Jul 2017 at 01:07

Will adopt this! If there's less links then there will surely be a reduction of problems caused by it. Agreed.