Phishing Emails Are Now More Convincing Than Ever, Often With The Help of AI. Email Links Often Aren’t Safe. Here's Why You Should Log In To Your Accounts Manually Every Time [Paid Subs]

Phishing emails have gotten scarily realistic. Even experts are falling for them. Here’s why we should treat all emails as alerts and never click the links, no matter how legit they look.

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We can no longer trust links in many emails. We’ve taken that convenience for granted for far too long. I promise you that links in emails from Substack are safe, but the real point here is that we’ve become complacent to the convenience and stuck in routine.

I would even ask you to treat emails about my blog posts as simply a heads up, and go to KevinTheTechGuy.Substack.com, or soon enough simply KevinTheTechGuy.ca in your browser to read my posts.

These days, I treat these kind emails as nothing more than a heads-up. They might let me know that something needs my attention, but they don’t get to take me there. I decide where to go and how to get there. I’ll always type in the web address myself. Login to your account and it’ll tell you what you need to know.