Did Yahoomail users receive any mail from "YAHOO!ALERT!!"?
By comfort55
@comfort55 (1574)
India
October 26, 2008 1:35pm CST
Hi friends! I received this mail from Yahoo Alert saying that due to congestion in , Yahoo will be shutting down all unused accounts. In order to avoid this they asked to reply the mail giving details of user id, password, date of birth and country name. Though I replied back giving the details they asked for but I was wondering whether its real or fake. Just to confirm, did any of you guys have received such mail?
3 responses
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
26 Oct 08
Never, never, never reply to any email with your personal information, no matter where it seems to have come from.
Did I stress NEVER?
Why would someone need your personal information to keep an account active? If you are reading the email, then the account IS active!
I suggest you change all your account information by going directly to the site. It may already be compromised.
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@comfort55 (1574)
• India
27 Oct 08
Thanks for your valuable advice. After reading your response, first thing I did was that I immediately changed my password in my yahoo account. After reading your lines it struck me that it was a spam.
@theproperator (2429)
• United States
26 Oct 08
Well, you might as well delete that account and any other account you have that uses the same name/password combo. I'm not sure how the scammers plan to use the information, but it is probably not to send you a nice present. Yahoo would not have to ask for your password or any of that other information to confirm your account. You would only need to reply to the email for them to know the account is still active. Forward the email to yahoo as a phishing email. Hopefully, they will be able to shut the fraud site down before anymore people get scammed.
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@comfort55 (1574)
• India
27 Oct 08
Thanks theproperator for your advice. I realise now that I made a mistake by responding to the mail. I'll definitely forward the mail to Yahoo.Thanks once again.
@netti2nite (87)
• United States
31 Oct 08
This message has been going around since yahoo first began. Please ignore all messages that say yahoo is closing, yahoo is charging, yahoo is running out of names, etc.
They are all false and just ways to start rumors, and to try to get people's information.
