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• I have gotten two different emails, one from Customer Alert <[email protected]> saying verify your free yahoo account, in the subject was Warning!!! Message Regarding Your Yahoo Account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The body of the email was Account Alert VERIFY YOUR FREE YAHOO ACCOUNT NOW !!! Dear Yahoo Customer, This message is from Yahoo messaging center to all Yahoo free account owners and premium account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused Yahoo account to create more space for new accounts. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a present used account. To do this, You have to click on your reply Botton to reply back to this message and then you fill the information below. Confirm Your Identity Yahoo! ID: ............................... Password: ................................. Your Birthday: .................................... Your Country or Territory: ................ Enter the letter from the Security Image : Registration Verification Code FILL THE ABOVE INFORMATION CORRECTLY TO AVOID YOUR ACCOUNT BLOCKED Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. Yahoo! Mail This one looked somewhat official. The first one I got a couple of days before that was from, Yahoo! Mail <[email protected]> in the subject was TERMINATION OF YOUR YahooMail hotmailMail msnMail WEBMAIL ACCOUNT and the body of the message was Dear Subscriberuser TERMINATION OF YOUR YahooMail hotmailMail msnMail WEBMAIL ACCOUNT We are currently carrying out an upgrade on our system due to the fact that it has come to our notice that one or more of our subscribers are introducing a very strong virus into our system and it is affecting our network.We are trying to find out the specific person. For this reason all subscribers are to provide their USER NAME AND PASSWORD for us to verify and have them cleared against this virus. Failure to comply will lead to the termination of your Account in the next 48 hours. Information to send; EMAIL ADDRESS; USERNAME; PASSWORD; Hoping to serve you better. Sincerely, YahooMail Support **************************************… This is an Administrative Message from YahooMail server. It is not spam. From time to time, YahooMail server will send you such messages in order to communicate important information about your subscription.***************************… This one looked less official. So my question; Is this a Scam that is going around? I have been using Yahoo Mail for going on seven years and I have never had anything like this happen before.

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  100% scam. That is a scammer trying to hi-jack your email address to spam all your contacts and then use the account to spam hundreds/thousands of others. Yahoo and all email companies, all banks and all companies in the entire world will NEVER ask for your password, pin or date of birth. No Exceptions Ever. Ignore and delete that email and any others demanding such information. If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of needing your password, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money, email address or identity to a scammer. If you google "yahoo email phishing scam", "email hijacked viagara porn spammer" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam. In fact, if you check out the section here at Yahoo Answers entitled "Yahoo email, spam and bulk mail" you will find hundreds of questions from victims who have had their email address hi-jacked or spoofed by scammers sending out porn and viagara spam.