But this week I was sent an email that was obvious to me as a phishing attempt, though some inexperienced surfers may not be so alert. I figured I'd post it here for reference. Here's the email:

Some signs that this is a scam:

- The FROM: Email is "update@kittymail.com" -- if the address even exists, it's at a free web-based email service, not from Kijiji
- The TO: line has a bunch of email addresses. If Kijiji sent you a mass message, you would not be seeing the addresses of other people.

- The SUBJECT: line doesn't make sense -- session expired? Update my account? Designed to confuse the recipient

- The warning is in broken English: "Due to the massive fraud that we are facing in the last months,we advice you to update your account for a better collaboration" ... What massive fraud? The last months? No space after the comma? We "advice" you? For a better collaboration? Really bad English.
- The link goes to http://kililiupdtaccnt.hostzi.com/Uptdate_kilili.html -- what the hell is that? Kilili? Who on earth is hostzi? UPTDATE?
- I'm sure I could dig more evidence from the email headers, but we've already made it obvious that this is bogus

Just ignore it. Don't reply, and certainly don't click the link.

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