Yesterday morning I opened my Thunderbird to find an email showing that it was sent from 'donotreply@kijiji.ca'. In the email it said that I had requested to change my password, and if this was not true or if I had changed my mind, then I needed to click on a link provided.
So there I was, before my morning latte, accused in my sleepy head that Miss Kiki had decided to take liberty of messing around my Firefox while I wasn't looking, I went on and clicked that link on my email. Voila. It took me to a page that looked like Kijiji.ca and asked me to log in.
I started typing my email. But wait.... why is my usually auto-completed email not showing up? Something is phishy here. A siren sound at the back of my mind. Why does this feel familiar? Why of course! DH had posted a link about this before, and if I had not catch this, ..... well, shame on me!
To reconfirm my suspicion, I accessed kijiji.ca directly and there was my account, still logged in. More importantly, I reported this to them so hopefully they can do something about this. There are a lot of nasty wolves in this jungle and they keep doing what they do because most people don't report them. If you receive something similar, the kijiji team said that you can forward the email to spoof@kijiji.ca
So there I was, before my morning latte, accused in my sleepy head that Miss Kiki had decided to take liberty of messing around my Firefox while I wasn't looking, I went on and clicked that link on my email. Voila. It took me to a page that looked like Kijiji.ca and asked me to log in.
I started typing my email. But wait.... why is my usually auto-completed email not showing up? Something is phishy here. A siren sound at the back of my mind. Why does this feel familiar? Why of course! DH had posted a link about this before, and if I had not catch this, ..... well, shame on me!
To reconfirm my suspicion, I accessed kijiji.ca directly and there was my account, still logged in. More importantly, I reported this to them so hopefully they can do something about this. There are a lot of nasty wolves in this jungle and they keep doing what they do because most people don't report them. If you receive something similar, the kijiji team said that you can forward the email to spoof@kijiji.ca
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