It looks like someone is phishing for personal data.

Would it seriously cause any inconvenience if the account were to become closed? After all, e-mail is low-priority communication. Its cheapness goes hand-in-hand with its value.

If it were urgent, the sender would telephone instead.

If it were significant, the sender would establish bona fides before acting.

Hello PWSlack

from me

Good logical reasoning.

Kind Regards....

EDIT: This was supposed to be an "Off-Topic" Post, but I cannot Edit into such a form, my auto-poster got ahead of me.

Sparky is correct. They would never ask for this information.

Plus there grammar,sentencing and spelling could use assistance!

I do reply to them, giving a username like "Freddo" and a password like "GoF...Yourself" or something similar

Then if the "reply-to" is not a yahoo account, I do a whois on the address and email the sysadmin to let them know their server could be compromised, if not, they are hosting phishing scams.

I would send some fake info just for the fun of it.

Cancel - It might not be such a good idea.

Pretty much everyone else answer your question.

But whatever you do ... DO NOT REPLY WITH YOUR PASSWORD OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION ...

It obviously is a scam to get information for identity theft purposes.

If you have time you can help find the criminals who are doing this
by contacting yahoo customer support to report the issue.

If you don't have time just block the e-mail address it came from.

Well, everyone has already said it, but I'll add to the list ...

RUN AWAY

(Almost) never give your personal information to anyone online. I actually got 'hooked' years ago by a 'phishing' email from something that looked exactly like Paypal ... the site I was directed to was PERFECT in appearance. It didn't cost me anything except TIME to solve the problem I had created, but it was a lesson learned.

Generally, all on line services have a site for asking about and reporting 'phishing' such as this ... someone already posted the link to the Yahoo site.

Just be careful ...

Then you have the E-mail money scams, the last I had got me into a bit of trouble.

They said that all I had to do was give my BSB details (bank/branch number and account details) I checked and surely they couldn't remove money from the account, and its used on eBay quite a bit (tho eBay is trying to get everyone to use PayPal as they own that I think)

So, I gave my BSB details, $500 of stolen/inappropriately gained money was transferred into my account, my account closed on the spot and the bank was asking me where the money came from. Accounts closed by the Fedral police....

So, no matter haw "Safe" it sounds, they are not loosing anything.

Never open a link inside an email, even if it appears to be a website where you have a membership. If there is a problem with your account, use your browser's address window to go directly to the legitimate website to check for yourself.

3Doug,

This is exactly what I was going to add to add to this thread. We have had many an E-mail from PayPal, EBay and the like asking for confirmation info etc and after having gone through my internet browser into my account have found nothing wrong with it.

Good answer to you my friend.

Kev B

P.S. Incidently, my wife and I are having no end of trouble with PayPal and EBay at the moment. Need to verify bank account with PP to link it to EBay account. We are not new customers either as we have over a 100 ratings. PP suggested we clean out our cookies and that would solve the problem - this however probably came from the YT (Youth Training) kid who's jut out of nappies!

All my dear friends,

Thank you very much, your responses are appreciated.

(Sorry Sparkstation for borrow your animation)

Abdel Halim

This an "low kick". Yahoo will never ask you for password by e-mail in this form, nothing can't happen to yahoo within 24 hours, already all this data (name, age, territory,.....) yahoo have when you sign up, yahoo will ask you only for confirmation password when you made any request. It seem that this person who send this e-mail to you was a member of fake games process. I will be happy if somebody can take initiative to educate a community over internet about this negative phenomenon.

Thanks

It's bogus - it always is if they ask for your password - just another phishing expedition. There are a lot of them out there - I got one from Bank of America a couple of days ago - I don't even have an account there and have never done any business with them. Ed

I save all my received virus' and rubbish e-mails in a file that I attach in response to such crap.

My collection of Nigerian letters belongs in a museum. These also (356 of) I would send as a reply.

Oddly I don't get any trash anymore. Maybe because the servers are reading my e-mail address as a program eg -anybody-@pump.com

Duckinthepond,

I like this idea - may even adopt it myself.

I have a btinternet E-mail address at home and the odd spam E-mail gets through to my home computer (about 4 a week). However, if I log-on to my online account I can guarantee that there will be roughly 40 spam E-mails a day stuck in the junk folder!!

Log on to your email address over the internet and make sure all your spam filters are set up correctly as this will prevent a lot of crap downloading from their servers to your home computer.

Kev B

<...(about 4 a week)...>

It's 16 a day here!

16 a day? thats nothing, back in my day.........

98% of my incomming E-mails is SPAM

I get about 1500-2000 legit E-mails a day (yes I'm a member of a few E-mail listserve's

I use a btinternet account, and a CompuServe account. I have MS Outlook set up to get mail from both accounts.

The junk mail from both accounts gets filtered into a Junk folder in Outlook.

The setup works pretty well - about 3 - 5% of the junk appears in my inbox, and about 1 or 2% of genuine e-mails get filtered as junk.

The point I'm making is that sometimes - as happened this morning - the junk filters make mistakes. I found several CR4 new comment notifications and an e-mail from my daughter in the junk folder. I've also had some important work stuff turn up in the junk before now.

So, if you use an e-mail account for important stuff (like CR4!), and use junk filtering, check the junk regularly/frequently, and before deleting it!

You are being phished by someone overseas who has very good command of the English language. DO NOT give any information to them, or even respond to this e-mail. Report it to security at yahoo!

Thanks, that is already done, but what I'm afraid is : the received e-mail was contained a link under the name of Yahoo, and I clicked it. My question is: is there any link started between my data and the hacker? and how I can crack this link? Chnging the password can crack this link?

if you right click on a link in your e-mail (at least with firefox browser) you get an option to "copy link location". 9 times out of 10 you will see the real URL when you past it to notepad or a new tab in your browser.

example is similar to how we can post a link here in CR4. http://cr4.globalspec.com/edit/newcomment

right click on that link, and paste the result into a new tab and you will see that it goes to my own website.

Using AOL and XP pro, I right clicked on the link, then clicked on "properties" . This gave me the same link to your web site.

Bill

You don't need to 'right click' or 'copy' anything. just point the mouse to the clickable link (do not click by any means)...have a look on the bottom left hand corner of the window (where it says "Done") and you will see the real link the tag is pointing to before you even click it.

I do this all the time. Most likely you will see a very similar looking address link but with something preceding the original: for example http://security.yahoo.com instead of http://yahoo.com/security. Most times these it will be some random characters first.

I would also like to warn all our fellow members about e-mails coming mostly from Nigeria.Informing about millions of $ being offered to you............ subsequently cheating people. Never respond to such tempting e-mails simply delete them.

Suresh Sharma

I get oodles of these phishing attempts through my various email addys. It's purely a scam.

In addition to reporting it to Yahoo, US people should cc it to:

spam@uce.gov

as a lot of these are apparently coming from terrorist organizations.

Turn on all email headers when you can. Your email client documentation should explain how to do this.

Yahoo has no reason to ask you for your password.

I remember my first phishing email. It was claiming to be my bank and stated that my account has been tampered with and gave me a link to check my account information.

Everything looked legit and I followed instructions. The link took me to a page that was identical to the page that I normally log into to do online banking.

After I did what they asked me, then I got curious if it was legit. I checked into the IP address they gave as being the one that accessed my account. I googled it and all kinds of phishing information was right there.

I called the bank and recording while I was on hold stated that Wells Fargo will never ask for your banking information online. I was a phishing email victim.

Fortunately I was on it right after making the error and cancelled my account and opened a new one and got a new debit card before any kind of damage could be done. It was an inconvenience but it was my fault for shooting first and asking questions later.

Anytime you get an email that offers something like an at home business that pays well to some email asking about needing account information to someone needing you to create an account so they can transfer money into it to some cute girl in Nigeria that is American but stuck there and needs money to get out and loves you to boot, is all scam.

The good thing is you can google each and every one of those examples on who you received it from and there is most likely information already there identifying it as a scam.

Some of the scam identifiers are scams too so beware of those.

Abdel,

I imagine we have all seen that or similar. Almost convincing, isn't it?

I wonder how many languages they point it out in.

I dug out Yahoo's email address for such problems (It is really well buried) and forwarded that same message to them.

Their reply was that indeed it is a phisshing letter intended to get your particulars.

j.

Some e-mail programs will allow you to display the HTML source of the message. Even if you do not know any HTML look for the URL that you were supposed to click on. Next to it you will see the actual URL that will be used. The actual URL will not be the same as the URL that appeared in the message. This is a sure sign that you are being phished. Many of these phishing notes that I have recieved have been from financial institutions in different countries and institutions that I do not patronize.

Then of course there are the requests for help in getting funds out of one country and into another. The thing that gives me a chuckle is the times that the person trying to pull it off invokes God's blessings on me as I participate in an obviously illegal act.

Good luck avoiding the phishers, the Nigeria 419'ers and the other con artists who prowl around in cyberspace.

I send an e-mail to Yahoo thorough phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com. And the following is their reply. How can I verify that their reply is actually from Yahoo without clicking any included link?

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From: "Yahoo! Mail" mail-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com Add sender to Contacts

To: abujalala2005@yahoo.com

Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.

The webpage or message that you are writing about is a hoax originated by someone other than Yahoo!.

You should assume that any unsolicited message asking for your Yahoo! ID and password, security key, or other sensitive information is part of a scam to gain unauthorized access to your account. Feel free to simply delete such messages, or if you would like to be sure we are aware of the scam, you can file a report at:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse.html

If you have already entered your information into a suspicious message or web page, you should immediately change your password and update any other information you provided. If you provided credit card or other financial details, you should also contact your financial institution.
If you are unable to change your password or regain access to your account, you should contact: account-security@yahoo-inc.com

For useful information and resources regarding online security, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center at: http://security.yahoo.com

Please let us know if you still need assistance so we may assist you further.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail.

Regards,

Lee

Yahoo! Customer Care

52005581

For assistance with all Yahoo! services please visit: http://help.yahoo.com/
Unquote

This one doesn't matter if its original from Yahoo or not, or just a standard E-mail reply to phishing E-mails sent to them.

The info here is a general "we don't ask for your personal information in Emails"

just don't worry about this E-mail, its more of a guideline ;o)