@MyQuestionIs wrote:
Windows 10, outlook 2007.
........ links that never open / take me anywhere? All I see is the very long link text, which I can't even copy and paste.
Interesting. 🤔
I don't get these emails from VM but your description sounds very much like the result of the action Outlook takes with spam, specifically potential phishing, emails. When it sends an email to its "Junk E-mail" folder it disables all the links and they appear exactly as you describe.
Do those emails get flagged as spam in Outlook?
Do you see this message above the body of the email? That is from Outlook 365 but I would think 2007 has a similar warning.

As that message says, Outlook should re-enable those links if you move the email to the Inbox but perhaps poor old Outlook 2007 is creaking and playing you up. It's getting on a bit now, just like me 😉
You could try turning off disabling links in spam messages by following steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown below. That is a screen shot of Outlook 365 but I think Outlook 2007 was very similar. If not a bit of online searching would probably give you the method used in Outlook 2007.

If my suggestion does not work or is not applicable, you could view one of those emails in the VM Webmail account (sign in with your email address and password from here https://my.virginmedia.com ) See if those links are displayed and work correctly there. If they do it would strongly suggest the issue is with your Outlook 2007 rather than an issue with the emails themselves.
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