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What’s Yahoo Mail up to?

Postby Get Real! » Sat May 09, 2009 1:12 am

What’s Yahoo Mail up to? Have you received one of these?

From: "Yahoo Account Service" <[email protected]>

Dear User,

We are sorry to inform you that we are currently working on securing our server, during this process account which is not manually verified by us will be deleted, Please confirm and submit your information for manual verification by one of our customer care.

Information which is to be provided is below:
User Name:
User Id:
Password:
Date Of Birth:
Country (At Sign up):

Upon confirmation of information from you, we will manually verify your Yahoo! Account and reserve it not to be deleted, We are sorry for any inconveniences this might have cause providing your information over the email.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Did we give all that info to Yahoo at sign up? :? I don’t recall doing that…

Call me paranoid but with all the totalitarianist laws introduced by G.Bush in the US, and now inherited and gladly preserved by Obama, resulting in hundreds of people being picked off the streets and airports from around the world and dispatched to Guantanamo with no trial and nothing in sight, I’ve grown VERY weary of whom I give my personal details to and especially of huge American corporations controlling the Internet!

What is your view on all this? :?
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Postby Sotos » Sat May 09, 2009 1:14 am

Ever heard of phishing? ;)
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Postby Get Real! » Sat May 09, 2009 1:16 am

Sotos wrote:Ever heard of phishing? ;)

Is this one of them? How do we know? :?
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Postby Lee A Kada » Sat May 09, 2009 1:19 am

Get Real! wrote:
Sotos wrote:Ever heard of phishing? ;)

Is this one of them? How do we know? :?


Wait 2 weeks................... :wink:
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Postby kafenes » Sat May 09, 2009 1:25 am

I got that message as well GR about a week ago and deleted it. Something didn't sound right.
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Postby Get Real! » Sat May 09, 2009 1:28 am

kafenes wrote:I got that message as well GR about a week ago and deleted it. Something didn't sound right.

I’ll bet many have responded to this with their details…
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Postby Sotos » Sat May 09, 2009 1:30 am

Many reasons. First of all Yahoo would never say "we are currently working on securing our server" :lol: That sounds funny. And Yahoo to manually verify the millions of yahoo emails accounts??? Impossible. And the way it is written it is not in the professional style of Yahoo. And the biggest clue is asking from you to send them the password by email! No decent website would do that. If that is not enough for you then read this.

Be careful when giving out personal information

Be cautious about giving out your credit card numbers, Social Security number, bank account numbers, driver license number, and passwords. Never include this information in an email, which is generally not secure. Be suspicious of any company that asks for this information in an email or instant message. Most legitimate companies will never ask you to confirm sensitive data in an online form or in an email, and will instead use conventional mail when requesting this information.

Yahoo! will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited email or phone call. And we'll never ask you to send your password or credit card information by email.

http://security.yahoo.com/article_privacy.html
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Postby Sotos » Sat May 09, 2009 1:42 am

Get Real! wrote:
kafenes wrote:I got that message as well GR about a week ago and deleted it. Something didn't sound right.

I’ll bet many have responded to this with their details…


Good phishing is better than hacking. You could be on the most secure server using all the security in the world but if you are not careful you could give out your passwords and you wouldn't even realize it. I admit I did this in some occasions many years ago when most people didn't know about it but for very innocent reasons :) At those times you could even fake the URL in the address bar of IE because of a bug in that browser :lol:
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Postby Get Real! » Sat May 09, 2009 1:47 am

Sotos wrote:Many reasons. First of all Yahoo would never say "we are currently working on securing our server" :lol: That sounds funny. And Yahoo to manually verify the millions of yahoo emails accounts??? Impossible. And the way it is written it is not in the professional style of Yahoo. And the biggest clue is asking from you to send them the password by email! No decent website would do that. If that is not enough for you then read this.

Be careful when giving out personal information

Be cautious about giving out your credit card numbers, Social Security number, bank account numbers, driver license number, and passwords. Never include this information in an email, which is generally not secure. Be suspicious of any company that asks for this information in an email or instant message. Most legitimate companies will never ask you to confirm sensitive data in an online form or in an email, and will instead use conventional mail when requesting this information.

Yahoo! will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited email or phone call. And we'll never ask you to send your password or credit card information by email.

http://security.yahoo.com/article_privacy.html

This must be a fraud because if you attempt to respond to it the address in the reply box now comes up as...

[email protected]

…whereas, if you attempt to add it to your address book it remains as…

[email protected]

:? You’d think that Yahoo would scan and remove dodgy email name requests/accounts, especially ones containing "Yahoo" in them! :roll:

They really need to get their act together...
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Postby Sotos » Sat May 09, 2009 2:08 am

Get Real! wrote:
Sotos wrote:Many reasons. First of all Yahoo would never say "we are currently working on securing our server" :lol: That sounds funny. And Yahoo to manually verify the millions of yahoo emails accounts??? Impossible. And the way it is written it is not in the professional style of Yahoo. And the biggest clue is asking from you to send them the password by email! No decent website would do that. If that is not enough for you then read this.

Be careful when giving out personal information

Be cautious about giving out your credit card numbers, Social Security number, bank account numbers, driver license number, and passwords. Never include this information in an email, which is generally not secure. Be suspicious of any company that asks for this information in an email or instant message. Most legitimate companies will never ask you to confirm sensitive data in an online form or in an email, and will instead use conventional mail when requesting this information.

Yahoo! will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited email or phone call. And we'll never ask you to send your password or credit card information by email.

http://security.yahoo.com/article_privacy.html

This must be a fraud because if you attempt to respond to it the address in the reply box now comes up as...

[email protected]

…whereas, if you attempt to add it to your address book it remains as…

[email protected]

:? You’d think that Yahoo would scan and remove dodgy email name requests/accounts, especially ones containing "Yahoo" in them! :roll:

They really need to get their act together...


They are so stupid! First of all there is no ".inc" top level domain. And then why they couldn't get a "@yahoo.com" address at least? They are free! Stupid amateurs :lol:
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