Yahoo! Mail Warns Me, Please Help - *DETECTED* Online User Violation (true?)

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Yahoo! Mail Warns Me, Please Help - *DETECTED* Online User Violation (true?)

bureX
This is a pure hoax because:

1.
QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 22 2005, 08:13 PM)
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will not run into any future problems with the online service.
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I have seen this sentence in a "phishing" scam e-mail message before! (I think that it was sent to PayPal members)

2. Yahoo! mail support doesn't send attachments in their e-mail messages.

3. If you have really sent a really large amount of spam e-mail messages recently, your Yahoo! Mail account would be surely terminated by now! Why would they ask you for excuses when you have a free e-mail account?

4. Yahoo mail messages usually come from support@yahoo.com

5. It reached your spam (bulk) mailbox! I doubt that Yahoo would deliver this kind of sensitive information would to your spam mailbox!

I guess that the attachment contains a trojan or a virus, but it usually contains "very important form that you need to fill". That form usually asks for you password! Yahoo staff will NEVER ask you for your password, and that includes other free mail services!

You can ignore this message, or report it:
GMail has a feature "Report Phishing", but I think that Yahoo doesn't have this one-click feature. You should forward that message with a brief explanation that you are not sure whether this e-mail message is a hoax or not to abuse@yahoo.com.

Keep your eyes open for these kinds of phishing scams!

 

 

 


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Cammy
Yahoo does send mail for new updates etc but its official, easy to spot...they go out of their way to let you know its them. If you are involved in groups and change your email they will ask you to verify you address but other than that they dont mail attachments so beware.

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Phi
a good idea of what to do would to email support@yahoo.com
of your problem and congirm if they actually sent that
you never know hackers may have hacked into your account and actually spammed or... that mail is just a fake to a virus or some sort of infection to infect your computer

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MechVegita
huh weird after 5 years of using yahoo I have never got anything like that sorry to hear about this.







=mechvegita=

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icemarle
Actually, I read about how to send an email using any address. So I think that's not the real thing. I never heard of Yahoo! sending attachments! It has suspicious written all over it! I suggest you ignore it, and or delete it. Those types of mail aren't worth your time. Trust me. I agree with the others. It's highly doubtful that it's legitimate.

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Saint_Michael
hmmm if its to late don't open it oooh

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Reshma Sharma
QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 22 2005, 06:13 PM)
I'm receiving the folloing quoted messages from mail@yahoo.com with zip file as an attachment. I am quite disturbed with the message. Could this message be true Or should I ignore it? As far as my knowledge is concerned I have never sent any spam messages using my yahoo mail account. And I hate spam messages too. What if they eventually close down my yahoo email ID!!  sad.gif Does anyone get the same message? The thing is that this mail reaches to my Junk mailbox too. Please give your opinion!
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I too got same message.The attachment is a virus and you can ignore it.

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cse-icons
yeah, It sure is a fake coz Yahoo would never send an attachment and ask you to go through it or fill it up. If it was genuine communication, it would have redirected you to some page on yahoo or something like that.

Moreover chances are that if they find an account that is spamming and they are sure of it, I think they would just shut it down instead of sending mail to each user/ may be when the user logs in, they would show a page or request for info or user agreement or whatever was supposedly in the attachment.

So I think you can relax and ignore the message.

Cheers.

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kasm
QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 23 2005, 05:13 AM)
I'm receiving the folloing quoted messages from mail@yahoo.com with zip file as an attachment. .. The thing is that this mail reaches to my Junk mailbox too. Please give your opinion!
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Could you please tell us what the originating IP for trhis message that I can check whois.

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wild20
Don't open it! Many people will gat a yahoo address that says, noreply@yahoo, or supporthelp@yahoo. Yahoo doesn't filter out their own email. I would contact yahoo at their support address and verify that the email came from them. Worse comes to worse, you can always make a new account. It is better then crashing you computer!

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