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Why has Yahoo closed my account?

Keep getting emails saying to verify this or that or account will be closed - are these true, if not, why does yahoo let this spam thru?

  • Here is an example Your Classic version of Yahoo! Mail is closing. You need to upgrade now Hello, The Classic version of Yahoo! Mail will be replaced by our new version on 20 ...show more

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    SCAM That's NOT from Yahoo, it's a phishing scam to hack your account 1 - ALL emails regarding your account will be from an @cc.yahoo-inc.com address, NEVER @yahoo.com or anything else 2 - ALL emails regarding your account will ALWAYS have a purple Y! logo to the left of the sender’s name in your Inbox and when you hover over the Y with your mouse it will say “This is a verified message from Yahoo!” 3 - ALL emails regarding your account will always address you by your name (i.e. Dear John, Dear Mary), never a generic greeting (Dear Customer, Dear Yahoo Account Holder, Dear Valid User, etc), your email address or no greeting at all 4 - Yahoo will NEVER ask for any personal details in an email and will never ask you to click on a link to ‘verify’ or ‘validate’ or ‘update’ or ‘upgrade’ your account. 5 - Yahoo mail has 1TB of storage space. If you were anywhere near the limit you would not be asked to validate your mail. You would be told to delete old mail to free up space. Yahoo has even said that NO user of Yahoo Mail has ever come close to the 1TB limit http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-email-1-tb-storage-unlimited-20131008,0,5948465.story#axzz2rRrNsTMi "The company said that no user of the free version of Yahoo Mail has ever filled up 1 terabyte of space." 6 – Yahoo does not close accounts unless there has been NO activity on the account for more than 6 months, As long as you check your email at least once every 6 months, it will not be closed by Yahoo Mark as Spam > Report a Phishing Scam so it gets reported to Yahoo and they can shut down that account Not to mention, Yahoo Classic was closed in 2013

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This sounds like a phishing email designed to collect your account information. If Yahoo sends you an email it will address you by your real name, never as Dear User, Dear Yahoo Account Holder, or Dear Yahoo Mail User. Yahoo sends emails from a @cc.yahoo-inc.com address only. Yahoo will never send you an email asking that you change, update, or verify your account information by clicking on a link in the email. Yahoo needs your input to determine if an email is spam or not. You want to mark each email as spam so your spam filter will improve over time. You can do this by right-clicking on the spam email and then left-clicking on the option "This is Spam". Here's some articles on how to fight the good fight against spam. Stopping spam from coming into your Yahoo! Mail Inbox. - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3227.html?impressions=true An email was wrongly filtered as spam - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN4910.html?impressions=true Protecting yourself from "phishing" or "spoofing" - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN2092.html?impressions=true Reporting a phishing email sent from a Yahoo! email address - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN3477&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1373852376363&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML Why do I see a purple Y! next to certain messages in my Inbox? - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN3405&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1373600963942&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML Some abuse reporting tools - http://abuse.net/tools.phtml Fight Spam on the Internet - http://spam.abuse.net/ Block addresses in Yahoo Mail - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN3228&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1371770035408&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML

Arthur Dent

No thats not true, they never ask you things like that, but the reason they still let them through idk?

san-j

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