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You're training recipients to click your links without reading the url...
...and that's something you don't want to do. You can still send the link in the email, but don't make it clickable - make them cut & paste the url into their browser. If they have to select, cut, paste, hit enter, and STILL don't notice it is sending them to maliciouslink.com/exploit.asp instead of yourwebsite.com/valid.html... well, you've done all you can for them.

You could send them a link to a nsfw shock site and I guarantee they'll start carefully reading links instead of blindly clicking them... but HR/legal departments probably wouldn't approve of that strategy.

Some malicious links get sneaky, disabling or displaying "OnMouseOver" text that is incorrect to hide the real link and/or typing out https.://YourNormalBank.com while actually linking to FakeBankSucker.com. If the link appears to be written out in the email, 90%+ will just click it and assume that is where they are going.
Posted by Kenton.R
Updated - 5th Dec