Pau Lo

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if they are suspect then don't under any circumstances click on them.<br />
Rule #1 is if you are not expecting an email then don't trust anything on the email. Verify everything.<br />
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my advice is to delete these to prevent someone in the future clicking on them with possible dire consequences.
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No plans to click them on an Internet connected device,, not worth the risk. I just wondered if there were any analysis/sandbox tools where you could supply the link from the email and it provide some form of analysis/risk level/report.
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<div><div class="content wysiwyg-content fr-view"><div><div class="content wysiwyg-content fr-view"><div><div class="content wysiwyg-content fr-view"><div><div class="content wysiwyg-content fr-view"><p>Are there any useful apps/sites that could provide some sort of risk score for hyperlinks embedded in emails or elsewhere. e.g. the potential impact of clicking it? I've got a batch of 'suspect' email messages in a PST archive currently stored on an offline device (no Internet connection) and I was interested in analyzing the links within the messages, to identify the possible threat of clicking them or the destination site.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Or if you were to do a manual review, is there much that can be done visually on a URL behind a hyperlink to identify the possible threat of clicking it. What specific characteristics would you look for in the link to raise suspicions?&nbsp;</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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Are there any useful apps/sites that could provide some sort of risk score for hyperlinks embedded in emails or elsewhere. e.g. the potential impact of clicking it? I've got a batch of 'suspect' email messages in a PST archive currently stored on an offline device (no Internet connection) and I was interested in analyzing the links within the messages, to identify the possible threat of clicking them or the destination site. 
Or if you were to do a manual review, is there much that can be done visually on a URL behind a hyperlink to identify the possible threat of clicking it. What specific characteristics would you look for in the link to raise suspicions? 

URL risk analyzer

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