India, June 12 -- You must have experienced that your mailbox is always filled with subscription renewal reminders, surveys and feedback, job offers, weight loss program details, webinar invites, and what not. The easiest way to unsubscribe from these types of emails is the unsubscribe option in our mailing list. It is the simplest way possible, everyone knows it, to avoid these promotional emails, but it may put you at risk.

A report by The Wall Street Journal says clicking on those unsubscribe links can actually put your device and personal info in danger. When you click them, you leave the safe zone of your email app and enter the risky side of the web. TK Keanini, CTO of cybersecurity company DNSFilter, calls it like entering the wil...