Are you noticing shortened links? Tiny URLs? You can’t immediately see where you’ll go if you click through.<\/p>\n
This is great for those of us who put links (URLs) within an email. But for security minded users – do you want to click through? As an email creator the choice is convenience versus: chance losing a client.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately malicious websites are now disguising themselves using shortened URLs. The click through threat is real.<\/p>\n
Here’s the solution. These shortened links are created by multiple companies (TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd), but here are solutions for 2 common ones.<\/p>\n
If you see this:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/bit.ly\/11Sty<\/p>\n
Copy and paste into your browser – ADD a + <\/strong>sign to the end<\/p>\n http:\/\/bt.ly\/11Sty+<\/strong><\/p>\n This will take you to a bit.ly page showing information about the link, with a fully expanded URL. You can decide if it is safe or not.<\/p>\n TinyURL has a solution – prepend <\/strong>the word preview.<\/p>\n http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/82u5b<\/p>\n Copy\u00a0 and paste into address bar and ADD – preview<\/strong>:<\/p>\n http:\/\/preview<\/strong>.tinyurl.com\/82u5b<\/p>\n A little time, but far less than undoing a virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" shortened links Continue reading