Spam links in private messages

with all these alerts and spams and virues that's going around, were they send links in pms or emails etc

if you do get a link in a pm , don't click it unless you know that they sent manually and explained what it is, or they said toyouon voice they have pmedyoua link, if you unsure still, check it against google, or open the link in another browser that doesn't have no accounts logged, or  even another pc,  thatyoudon't mind refreshing windows, now some pms, in messages may say something like , "free game ifyouclick here" with a link, that will a spam link, so let the person  know who sent it by other means , say twitter, or discord or steam or facebook and let them know and if they didn't it did it, and then they sort it out there end,

now if you did click the link and a link was sent from say your steam account to your friends, change all passwords, enable 2 factor auth log in, and also let your friends know that you are aware of it all..

email messages with links

if you receive a email with a link , that you unsure of , say I get emails from apple but not apple saying my account is locked and so on, don't click any links in emails unless you know what they are, now what I do with emails, say apple email, saying a recent purchased was made in my account, what I do is check who its from. see screenshots below screnshots are from my spam folder emails to give you examples

as you see below , first one is saying about my apple subscription. but ifyoucheck the email address its coming from, you will know its not from apple, now if it does land in ur spam folder you don't need to worry about it, just ignore it, but report as spam if it lands in ur inbox..

for the 2nd one click on were I got the red square, and it will show a box of the senders details,

and you no it will be spam, so if you did get a email from say apple or amazon, the email addresses will have will be something like support at apple com or support at amazon com or co uk.

if this is the case were they got the companies domain name on there, goto the companies website directly and get there contact details either phone number or email address, and make them aware, as some times it will have a company domain eg apple but it may have a spam link, so check with the domain, don't click the links, goot the browser and type in the domain manually.

I hoped this has helped a lot of people that maybe novice, some will already know what to do, some may not, but always do manual research before clicking any links,