Something I try to share with people is the need to test links before you click them. Not all links, but anything suspicious. For me that means anything I receive via email.
VirusTotal has been a tool/service I’ve been using for a long while. Their browser extension facilitates the scanning of suspicious links by situating the functionality into the context sensitive menu triggered by a right click.
Selecting that menu option triggers the VirusTotal URL scan page to open and initiates the scan of that link. Results of that scan are returned and from those you can decide for yourself if you trust what’s on the other side of that link.
May your clicks be merry and bright