granpaw wrote in message ...

the thing that almost threw me was the link is to a secure site (https).

Yes, I have gotten some pretty impressive ones.
But so far, if I put the cursor over the link, the display at the bottom of
the screen shows that the link does not direct me to the site written in the
text of the email, but to some other site.

Personally, I won't give out that sort of info to an email link.
If appears legit, I will manually go to the site and see what's up.

Paul K. Dickman