Yahoo Account upgrade to avoid termination?
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Hi guys, i have recieved an email today saying that i need to upgrade my account to avoid being terminated. Here is what the message says: Dear Valued Member, We wish to Notify you that all YahooMail! account which is not upgraded will be terminated from our services to avoid further congestion in our network. In order to avoid loosing your account please upgrade to the latest version now to get the best of our services. UPGRADE NOW You have to perform this upgrade as soon as possible to avoid your account termination. Thank You for Being A Loyal Yahoo! Mail User Steven McIntosh Senior Director Product Management, Yahoo! Mail ______________________________________... when you click the UPGRADE NOW link, you will be directed by a certain http://www.li-i.net/accounts.ye78484hbejher............... page and ask you to sign in using your yahoo email and password. Is this legit or a scam? Please i need your answers :(
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Answer:
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 viagra spam.
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Other answers
This is a phishing scam to hack your account 1 - Yahoo would NEVER ask you to go to a link to verify your account, certainly not one that isn't even a Yahoo website 2 - Yahoo will never address you as Valued Member. They always address you by your real name (not email address or generic greeting) -- the same name you gave when you registered your account 3 - Yahoo does not terminate accounts unless you fail to log in at least once every 6 months 4 - the ONLY time Yahoo asks for your username and password is when you first log in to your account
Kittysue
total scam yahoo are actually crying out for more members and e-mail users
Harley Drive
It's a phishing site, Ignore.
LlamaNinja Limon ♫
This is a phishing scam to hack your account 1 - Yahoo would NEVER ask you to go to a link to verify your account, certainly not one that isn't even a Yahoo website 2 - Yahoo will never address you as Valued Member. They always address you by your real name (not email address or generic greeting) -- the same name you gave when you registered your account 3 - Yahoo does not terminate accounts unless you fail to log in at least once every 6 months 4 - the ONLY time Yahoo asks for your username and password is when you first log in to your account
Kittysue
total scam yahoo are actually crying out for more members and e-mail users
Harley Drive
It's a phishing site, Ignore.
LlamaNinja Limon ♫
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 viagra spam.
Buffy Staffordshire
Scam. Find out who is really email sender with email trackers: http://www.ip-address.org/tracker/trace-email.php http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/email-tracking/email-header.php http://www.find-ip-address.org/email-search/find-email.php Good luck!
Miha L
This is a known 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.
smeagin
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