Saturday, March 10, 2012

Has anyone received a request from Yahoo Mail Service?

Has anyone received a request from Yahoo Mail Service asking for confirmation of user ID: password; date of birth and country?"I have had one from the following email and am unsure whether it is a hoax email Yahoo Mail Service" %26lt;mails_confirm@yahoo.com%26gt;Add sender to Contacts Has anyone received a request from Yahoo Mail Service?
This is a scam! Somebody is trying to verify your e-mail address so it can be sold to spammers, or they are trying to get your bank account info so you can be ripped off later! Forward such a mail to:

spoof@yahoo.com

phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com

http://www.spamcop.net/

Federal Trade Commission spam@uce.gov

Treasury Department 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/re鈥?/a> - this site contains links for various countries



Here's how to do the forwarding bit: click the crtl key and at the same time click the "forward" button to forward a message as an attachment, mac users should click the "apple" key and click "forward" simultaneously.



To read more about scams go to the links below.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/4337

http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/intern鈥?/a>



To look up possible scams, phishing mails and sites illegally trying to obtain your private data, visit: http://www.419legal.org/Has anyone received a request from Yahoo Mail Service?
Don't trust any email asking for user ID and password. Contact Yahoo directly and ask if they sent you a confirmation email. Most likely they didn't and can alert people to the possible phishing scam.Has anyone received a request from Yahoo Mail Service?
DO NOT reply. This is a phishing scam attempting to get you to give them all your personal info. It's not from Yahoo, just delete it and ignore it. Good luck and be careful.
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