I know not to click links on random emails but comfortably click links on emails I initiated from a website.

roelschroeven 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

How do you know the email comes from that website? There are known cases of phishing mails being sent when people expect a legitimate mail.

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Yeul 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

If someone hacks my account and starts ordering stuff on bol it's not my problem but the company's so I don't sleep over it.

The company doesn't care either because fraud is just the cost of doing business- ease of ordering> security.

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KingOfCoders 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The website is

abc.com

the link in the email is abc.com

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soiltype 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

unless the product manager decided the link in the email is

track.monkey.exe/sus/path/spyware?c=behhdywbsncocjdb&b=ndbejsudndbd&k=uehwbehsysjendbdhjdodj

or something 2x–3x longer

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KingOfCoders 8 days ago | parent [-]

The question was "How do you know the email comes from that website? "

And the answer was, I can find out if the email is from abc.com by looking at the link, which should also be abc.com

I don't click in "track.monkey.exe". I don't click tracking links. I pay a lot of money for my newsletter provider because I can turn off (most) tracking links.

	▲	soiltype 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		The question was framed that way but in fact this conversation isn't about your personal resistance to a particular scam vector. Many sites do offload 100% of their emailing to 3rd party trackers. Therefore nobody can use those sites without engaging in 3rd party tracking. Therefore these sites have created an environment favorable for this scam vector.

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paradox460 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The link in the email is a mailchimp wrapped tracking link with a gibberish URL. What now

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kibwen 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Or the email is rendered HTML, where the expected URL is used as the text for an anchor whose href is the malicious site.

	▲	KingOfCoders 8 days ago \| parent [-]
		Pro tip: Hover over the link an check the URL. Or look at the source.

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KingOfCoders 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't click the link. Simple.

Track someone else.

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Cthulhu_ 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You do, but does the average user? Security's reliance on people's behaviour / knowledge / discipline should be minimal.