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  • HI ALL, I'VE RECEIVED TODAY THE FOLLOWING E-MAIL: Your Yahoo! account information has changed Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:32 AM From: This sender is DomainKeys verified "[email protected]… <[email protected].… Add sender to Contacts To: [email protected] (my address) The following was added to your account: new secret questions You can use the email address(es) in your Yahoo! account to reset your password. To ensure that your account information remains accurate and secure we notify you whenever this information changes. Regards, Yahoo! Account Services **************************************… This change request was made on September 16, 2009 at 02:32pm UTC IS THIS SPAM? I THINK IT'S STRANGE BECAUSE I HAVE NOT ACCESSED MY INBOX AT THE TIME THEY SAY THE QUESTIONS WERE ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT (I.E. 2:32) BECAUSE I WAS AT WORK! MANY THANKS!

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    Scam!!!! That's a phishing email. Don't reply to the message and give out your personal information to total strangers or you'll risk losing your account to them. Remember that Y! doesn't send unsolicited emails to all its users, as the company already has that stored in its well-secured servers. Go here to report the message to Customer Care: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse.html Choose Password Phishing as the reason for the violation you're reporting on. Alternatively, you can also forward it to them-unedited and with full headers-at the following address: [email protected] After that, spam it straight into oblivion without delay.

Wallachi... at Yahoo! Answers Visit the source

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I have just popped through to help topics and left a message about your question. Hopefully you will be sent a proper answer. I too have had mail like this and decided it was spam.

jupiteress

I don't know. Phishing spam usually asks you to submit a password by email or by a link within the email (which is of course a phishing site.) If it is advising you to check your account information through the settings available to you when you log into your account from a definite Yahoo page, then it might be real. If it is real, but you have had no known activity that you would expect to cause such a notice, it may be possible that a spammer has hacked your account to change security questions or home email address. I don't know how likely that is, but I think it could be possible. I know that my step-mother's Yahoo mail got entered by spammers to spam her address book. She changed her password but the following week another spam got sent from her account. So that raises the possibility that spammers could be planting the seeds to recover new passwords after the victim knows better than to fall for more phishing spam. Anyway, I think you should check on your account starting from the Yahoo homepage and going through the proper links.

Martin G

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