Where does this link really go?
Paste a link from a text or an email, and Lantern shows you the site it really opens, before you tap it. Nothing you paste leaves this device, and the link is never opened.
What it looks for
- Which site the link really opens: the part of the address somebody registered.
- A company name written in front of somebody else's address.
- Look-alike spellings, such as a zero in place of the letter o.
- An @ sign that hides where the link goes.
- Shortened links, and addresses made of numbers.
How to copy a link without opening it
- On a phone: press and hold the link, and keep your finger still until a menu appears. Choose Copy, or Copy Link.
- On a computer: right-click the link and choose Copy Link, or Copy Link Address.
- Then come back here, press and hold in the box below, and choose Paste.
Whatever it says
- If a message pushed you to this link, the safer way is to go to the company yourself: type its address, or use its app.
- Never type a password, a card number or a code into a page you reached from a message you did not expect.
- Not sure? Call the company on the number printed on your card or your bill, not a number in the message.