yahoomail -- is this mail genuine one

@ravisivan (14079)
India
April 13, 2012 8:43am CST
Dear mylotters: I have received a mail supposed to be from yahoomail updates. Has any one received similar mails. I suspect this mail. I think this must be a way to get our password some miscreant has sent. Your two incoming mails were placed on pending status due to the recent upgrade to our database, In order to receive the messages Click here. to login and wait for responds from Yahoo!. We apologies for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Regards, Yahoo! Mail. pl share your ideas.
5 responses
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
15 Apr 12
This smells like a scam to me. People are getting rather creative as well in a sense as most people would not think twice about something like this. Then again, the old "let's e-mail the people, asking for their personal details and threaten the shutdown of their account" e-mail is getting rather old hat to say the very least. So this is something different. The lengths that some people will go to get a hold of a password to the e-mail account. I have never seen anything like that on Yahoo in the past and something like that would set up some rather warning bells right in the back of my mind. I wouldn't trust logging into something like that. Just seems like a trap of sometimes and a very obvious one at that.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
1 Aug 12
yes. it must be due to a miscreant's work. I did not respond it. thanks for the response.
14 Apr 12
It is simple you never give anyone your password. The only time you type it is when you are logging in and it appears as stars on the screen
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
1 Aug 12
yes. that is correct. we should not give password to any person.
@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
13 Apr 12
It's a spam mail my friend, I almost received them everyday. I just put it on my junk.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
14 Apr 12
i reported to yahoo customer care. Those people have sent a BIg mail and for reading that and following it will take more time. i will do it afterwards. yahoo people they do not read our email but send only ready made replies.
@Rick1950 (1576)
• Lima, Peru
14 Apr 12
You're right, a miscreant has sent that mail to you. I wouldn't answer that mail. Would you? I didn't get such an email recently but I don't trust such emails. There are a lot of dangerous emails in the web. We must be alert with the hackers.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
1 Aug 12
Rick: You are right . it must be the work of some hacker. I did not respond. good day.
• India
13 Apr 12
i never received such mails before. i thing this is a spam mail. how can yahoo ask for password as you are already log in!! As yahoo never ask to log in again. you just delete that mail and continue your work.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
14 Apr 12
yes. i think it is spam mail. thank god i did not open the mail.now yahoo customer care has asked me to forward to them so that they can know the details. --i gave the details still they are asking - they do not read the mail sent by us