Re: From Nextdoor / how does this work?

[Charles Gousha]

That was covered, but not in detail.

Apple Messages sees that the sender is an unknown person, and disables all links in the message accordingly. By responding (Y or N … or anything, really), closing and re-opening the message, Apple now marks it as KNOWN, and makes the links clickable.

The one saving grace is that links in SMS can’t hide behind other arbitrary text, the way that emails and web pages can hide things. They must show you the full URL you’re trying to click.

I’ll have to check deeper into whether the new RCS format allows that…

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On Mar 21, 2025, at 12:09 PM, Pam Ailes <pam....@gmail.com> wrote:

I don’t remember now if you went over this type of scam that comes via a text message. In the comments and in the original post, it says that the recipient is asked to click yes, and then go back to the same text and click the link which is activated after they click yes. So I was trying to figure out how that works. why wouldn’t the link be activated before they clicked yes.