Scam email from Cycling Plus?

[classic33]

Better yet - don't click on the link. Visit the site directly from your bookmarks. If it doesn't have a way to do the GDPR review without visiting from an unauthenticated emailed link, nudge the site admin.

How else would you double check the link is genuine, without clicking on it? Normally done by visiting the site it says it comes from.

 

[mjr]

How else would you double check the link is genuine, without clicking on it? Normally done by visiting the site it says it comes from.

It doesn't matter whether the link is genuine if you don't click on it. Emailed links are prone to all sorts of tricks like replacing e with ė or T with Ƭ and hoping you don't spot the difference. Never click them unless the email is authenticated - and most people still don't have email authentication like OpenPGP set up, so just don't click links in emails.

 

[classic33]

It doesn't matter whether the link is genuine if you don't click on it. Emailed links are prone to all sorts of tricks like replacing e with ė, or T with Ƭ and hoping you don't spot the difference. Never click them unless the email is authenticated - and most people still don't have email authentication like OpenPGP set up, so just don't click links in emails.

The advice given, by me, was to go to the site it says it came from, not clicking the link.

Follows on from check the source.

Don't misquote, that leads to errors getting in.

 

[mjr]

The advice given, by me, was to go to the site it says it came from, not clicking the link.

Follows on from check the source.

Don't misquote, that leads to errors getting in.

The quote was exact. I don't think your advice was as clear as you seem to feel it was.

 

[Alan O]

How else would you double check the link is genuine, without clicking on it? Normally done by visiting the site it says it comes from.

All I need to do is hover over a link in an email, and I get a pop-up showing me what it is.

 

[mjr]

All I need to do is hover over a link in an email, and I get a pop-up showing me what it is.

a great way to get malware installed if there's a vulnerability in your email reader.

 

[Alan O]

a great way to get malware installed if there's a vulnerability in your email reader.

I'm confident there isn't But others who use dodgy mail clients might have problems.