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title: "Trust & safety"
description: "How INBIO fights phishing and malware, and how to report a bad link."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.in.bio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Trust & safety

Short links can hide bad destinations, so every link on INBIO goes through
safety machinery:

- **At creation** — destinations are validated instantly: only `http(s)`,
  no private/internal addresses, no credentials in URLs, no re-shortening of
  other shorteners' links, and a global blocklist.
- **After creation** — a deeper background scan resolves the destination's
  redirect chain, re-checks every hop, and risk-scores the result. Links
  that fail are blocked automatically and the owner is notified.
- **Preview any link first** — add `/preview/` before the code:
  `in.bio/preview/a8K2p` shows where a link leads, its status, and a warning
  if the destination looks suspicious — without visiting it.
- **Report abuse** — anyone can flag a link at
  [in.bio/report-abuse](https://in.bio/report-abuse). Every report is
  reviewed by a human; confirmed-malicious links are disabled and their
  domains blocklisted.

:::note
Blocked links show a branded "blocked" page to visitors and stop redirecting
immediately — including for QR codes already in print.
:::

Source: https://docs.in.bio/account/trust-and-safety/index.mdx