how to open Yahoo & Hotmail account when Password, secret question and date of birth are all forgotten?

Question

this is not something to hack somebodys email but my grand father has passed away and I want to download an email from his inbox. that email was sent to him by one of his old friend and our grand father just mentioned about this.
we want to know what was the content of that email that made my grand father get sick for 3 months and then passed away.

I am looking forward to hear from somebody honest answer.

thanks
Nasir

Answer 1

you can't.I'm sorry

Answer 2

Your grandfather was elderly so he had to have a password that was very memorable. Try a date when someone dear to him passed or their name or even a favorite pet's name or their birthdate or a religious holiday or something like - pw123456.

Answer 3

Hi, My name is Nirmal, I am with Microsoft.

The simplest answer is NO, No matter how often, or how nicely, you ask. However, if you ask hotmail or yahoo support to do it for you, of course they can reset your grandpa's email password, again if you able to convince yahoo or MSN people that you are genuine user. For your reference, I can provide you the phone number for hotmail (US) - 877-635-7019. Call these guys and BEST OF LUCK.

Also, please make a note of the following for your reffernce,

I'm sure you'd be shocked at how easy many passwords are to guess. Your pet's name, your pet's name spelled backwards, your favorite TV character's catch phrase, your boyfriend or girlfriend's name (or "ilove" followed by that name), and so on.

Step #1: select a good password. "iLoveMikey" is a bad password. "qicITcl}" is a great password. You can see the problem though - great passwords are hard to remember. So compromise: never include full English words or names; always include a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers; always make sure that the password is at least 8 characters long. "Macintosh" is bad, "Mac7T0sh" might be good, and probably easier to remember. "HondaPrelude" is bad, but "Pre7ood6" might be ok.

Bottom line: pick a random looking password that YOU can remember, but that THEY would never guess - and assume that THEY are always really great guessers.

Step #2: protect your password. A scenario I've seen way too many times starts with "I thought I could trust my boyfriend / girlfriend / husband / wife / co-worker so I gave him/her my password. Then we had an argument."

How much damage can someone do if they're angry with you, and they have the password to your account? A lot.

It's very simple: Trust no one. I'm serious on this. Your friends are your friends until one day they're not. Naturally there are exceptions, but if there's the least little bit of doubt, don't reveal your password. Especially if someone is pressuring you to do so.

Step #3: set and protect your "secret answer." Many systems use a "secret question" and its corresponding answer as the key to password recovery or reset. The problem is that many people choose secret answers that nearly anyone can guess. Do people know where you were born? Then they know the answer to that secret question. Do people know what you're pet's name is? Then "favorite pet's name" is probably a bad secret question for you.

And yet people do exactly that. If your account is repeatedly hacked after you recover the password, I'd guess that your "secret question" isn't that secret after all.

"... 'hard to guess' is at odds with 'easy to remember', but both are absolutely critical."A great approach to this is to realize that there's nothing that says your answer actually has to correspond to the question, or to anything else in your life. So, pick an unrelated answer that has nothing to do with you. Perhaps your "City of Birth" should be "Crayola", "Chardonay" or "WindowsExplorer". As long as you can remember it it doesn't matter what it is.

An even better approach is to treat it like just another password - a password to your password, for example. Make it long, and obscure, completely unrelated to the "question", and hard for someone else to guess.

And don't tell anyone.

Step #4: set an alternate email address. Many services will use an "alternate email address" to mail you a new password if you forget yours. First, make sure to set that option up, and set it up using an email account on a different system. Create and use a Yahoo account for your Hotmail alternate email, for example. And second: don't lose the alternate account. For many systems, if you can't access that alternate email account, you cannot get your password back, and you will not be able to recover your primary account.

I've seen too many cases where people lose their alternate email address or let that account lapse, only to be totally screwed when they find they really really need it to recover their primary account.

Step #5: Remember. I realize that "hard to guess" is at odds with "easy to remember", but both are absolutely critical. If you forget your password, and you forget the answer to your secret question or lose access to your alternate email account or some how lose the ability to use any of the password recovery mechanisms provided by the service ... well, to put it bluntly, you are screwed.

Don't forget your own password. Don't forget the answer to your own secret question. If you must write your information down keep it in a secure place. A sticky note on your monitor under your mouse pad or other, easy to get to place, is not secure. Your wallet might be secure. A locked cabinet or safe might be secure. A properly encrypted file on your computer might be secure.

Step #6: Don't fall for password recovery schemes. There are people out there who will tell you that they can get your password if you send a specially formatted email to a special email address. But that email almost always requires you to provide another account name and password. Do you know who's at the other end of that email address? Not who they claim to be, do you know who they are? I sure don't. And there's no way I would trust them if they're asking for another account name and password. You're just begging to be hacked again.

"I cannot recover your password or account for you."Step #7: Learn from your mistakes. If you've been hacked, and you don't remember of have your secret question, and you never set up or you lost access to your alternate email address, and none of the other password recovery options that the service might provide apply to you ... well, I said it above, and I'll say it again: you're screwed. I cannot recover your password or account for you. If you're using a free service that has little or no customer support no one can. Learn from this. Take better care of your account information. If appropriate, and possible, consider moving to a for-pay mail provider that has real customer support that can help you recover from these kinds of problems.

If you have any other question, please feel free to contact me, or if I have given any wrong or not appropriate information, please feel free to post a feedback at my email address, that will really help me.

Thanks and regards,
Nirmal

Answer 4

well if he's your grandfather you ought to be able to find out his date of birth.

Answer 5

you don't know you grandfather's date of birth?

Answer 6

dear if u got to know please tell me also