How to break HTML links?

Remco Barendse mailscanner at barendse.to
Thu Aug 27 15:35:56 UTC 2020


I thought of that option but that totally ruins the layout of most 
emails but still leaves a "clickable" link intact


On Thu, 27 Aug 2020, L.P.H. van Belle via MailScanner wrote:

> Simple, it mail set you client to text only.
> Only look at HTML mails after you verified it.
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>> Verzonden: donderdag 27 augustus 2020 16:21
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>> Onderwerp: How to break HTML links?
>>
>> I noticed that attacks are getting smarter and more targeted.
>>
>> Previously the usual yada yada would come in (fake WeTranser
>> / DHL etc.)
>> but the attacks are now getting more serious by sending emails
>> pretending to come from very specific companies we actually work with.
>>
>> Because the attackers get smarter I would like to break all
>> HTML links so
>> nothing becomes clickable anymore (yes, I do understand that
>> this will
>> break pretty graphics in mailing lists, I don't care).
>>
>> How to break links in a way that the any link doesn't work
>> immediately
>> in the browser will after manual intervention?
>>
>> So change for example:
>> http://www.linktosupersneakyvirus.com/whatever.html
>> into
>> http://AREYOUSUREYOUWANTTOOPENKTHISwww.linktosupersneakyvirus.
>> com/whatever.html
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Remco
>>
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