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What Yahoo! Management can do to stop such hacker?

• What Yahoo! Management can do to stop such hacker Quote: "Yahoo Warning!!! Unused Account Removal Confirm Your Account Sunday, August 9, 2009 5:49 AM From: "Yahoo Account Service" <[email protected]>Add sender to Contacts To: undisclosed-recipients Dear Account User, This Email is from Yahoo Customer Care and we are sending it to every Yahoo Email User Accounts Owner for safety. We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of yahoo accounts so we are shutting down some yahoo accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below. Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account. Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts, Yahoo would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. * E-mail:.................................… * Full Name :............................... * Password:...............................… * Date of Birth:............................ * Country Or Territory:..................... * Occupation:.............................… After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences. Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. Sincerely. Yahoo! Account Service. Customer Care" Un-quote. Any better idea to report these e-mails, please? Thank you for reading and answer.

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  My dear friend, almost every day users are posting questions asking whether such mails are fakes or not. Reporting them anywhere doesn't help because the hackers constantly change their addresses. I just wish they'd start educating kids at school about how to recognize scams like this, but as long as they don't, it's more or less up to YA users. And it does not really help to just say <it's a scam>, but we have to educate users further by pointing out the fact that Yahoo wouldn't use another mail provider to send such messages. Since this scam has been around for quite some time, Yahoo must surely be aware of it by now. They are the only ones who know the mail addresses of all their members, they could send a warning about this scam to everybody. I just wonder why they didn't do it yet, after all it might help their business... Edit after reading your added details: I'm not an IT professional, but I know there are ways to controll the sign-up of new members. I'm curious, since Yahoo is such a large professional company - why didn't they find a solution yet? Or did they (as has been suggested by other users) find the solution, but don't want to implement it because the more users they have, the more money they can make through advertising???