'please Verify Your Password' When Replying To Craigslist Email

When replying to Craiglist ad email, instead of going to default email which is Yahoo, it goes to "please verify your password" screen in Yahoo. The only way I can reply to ad is to cut and paste. This has just recently started to happen. We use FF5

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Answer #1: Posted by kcmjr on August 5th, 2011 2:14 PM

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This "should" be a security feature of Yahoo mail but it's possible that it could be malicious code trying to get you to enter your password.

It's possible that it's Yahoo attempting to keep your account secure by requiring you to verify your password (which is currently being entered by the browser).

If you don't trust that it's not a phishing attempt (and it may be), open Yahoo manually and cut and paste the address into the To field.

Be careful because you might not actually be at Yahoo. Software can be written to fool you into thinking you are somewhere where you are not. When in doubt manually open the web page yourself.

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