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Lots of services send me legitimate e-mails asking me to update my credit card information. I'm supposed to click on those. They come from Netflix and all of th
by daveFNbuck 9y ago
Lots of services send me legitimate e-mails asking me to update my credit card information. I'm supposed to click on those. They come from Netflix and all of the text in the e-mail tells me to click on them. I don't click on them because I don't trust links from e-mails, but I'm supposed to.
No service ever sends me account verification e-mails for existing accounts. I'm not supposed to click on those. The text in the e-mail has instructions about whether I should click on it. This makes it different from the credit card e-mail.
- written 9y agoYou don't click because you're educated in these matters. Most people are not.
- daveFNbuck 9y agoNot clicking on the credit card update e-mail requires being educated in these matters. Not clicking on the account verification e-mail just requires reading the e-mail before clicking. I think that's an important distinction.
- written 9y agoDepends on the service. I've seen verification e-mails that just contain a link with no other text. Or with texts like "Continue here: [link]".