Why most scammers use yahoo?

Most of those scam emails, the ones about how they inherited money, etc...and only need you to help them get it and you can keep some of it in return...are called Nigerian 419 scams. They come out of Nigeria and Ghana. Look it up in your favorite search engine. It's very interesting information, and very sad that people get caught up in believing the emails as well as other types of scams they are pulling online.

Thank you for your comment, I wouldn´t go that far as saying that yahoo and the scammers are associated, frankly, I don´t think so, but I believe that yahoo should increase his security regulations, like making a bit harder to open an account, specially from the same IP address or the same person.

Thank you also..albto_568..Well, i just do not know i just said that because kind a wondering for me because why most of emils scams are sent to yahoo..And maybe yahoo need strong security since this site is easy to get in by the scams.. Yes should yahoo do that because some people are victims by that emails scams through sending to yahoo mail..Maybe we can give advices to yahoo.. Sad to hear,but that is good because they know that from Nig,survey got that much scams .Sad i hope the will go to hell.he he butt serious..

It happens to me from time to time, specially, I get invitations from social networks, where, supposedly, a friend of mine is giving me the invitation, something I know it´s not true. It´s a good idea your advise, I will delete my address book as well, yet, I don´t see yahoo improving its spam filter in a short time, thank you for your comment.

When your friends are getting spam emails from your email account, it is a sign that your account has been hijacked. Remedy this by changing your passwords frequently and making the passwords difficult to copy. I change mine anywhere from once a month to once every three months. Use mix of lower case and capital letters with at least one number included. I know it is a pain to have to keep changing passwords but it is one of the necessities of using the internet these days. This includes passwords on social network sites as well. Sometimes these accounts get hijacked so badly that you have to use your security questions and maybe even your phone number to get control of your account back. This is why the email companies ask for that phone number. Scammers and spammers use Yahoo more than the others I think because they also use the Yahoo Messenger for their spam and scam messages. It makes it easier for them to use both that way.

I was opened a fake account, to re-send this type of mail, I opened with false data, and never opened in my personal computer, it was kind of funny for a while, specially those messages where the girl, tells me that she is the next of kin of some african general or minister, and she has some millions of dollars in some account, and all she needs is my account Nº to make the deposit, but I get bored after a while. I think that yahoo should improve it´s spam filters, or doing a bit harder to open an account.