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Line 32: HTML allows for a link to have a different target than the link's text. This can be a security issue for users, who may be fooled into believing that a link points to the website of an authoritative source (such as a bank) and unintentionally [[phishing\|revealing personal details to a scammer]]. ~~The~~If ~~viewing~~an ofemail ~~embedded~~contains ~~external~~inline content from an external server, such as an [[Digital image\|image]], inthe ~~an email,~~server can alert a third party that the e-mail has been opened. This is a potential privacy risk, revealing that an email address is real (so that it can be targeted in the future) and when the ~~reason~~message ~~for~~was ~~which~~read. For this reason, some e-mail clients do not load external images until requested to by ~~default~~the user. Most [[E-mail spam]] is sent in HTML so spam filters (such as [[Spamassassin]]) give high spam scores to HTML messages.

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