These bulk mails are titled: Detected: online user violation, Account alert, Email account suspended, Important Notification. I have not opened any of them. Are others getting them?
2006-11-28 02:57:42 · 3 answers · asked by James G 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Yes. Its a phishing scam. They pretend to be from Yahoo, and urge you to click on a link that takes you to what looks to be a Yahoo site and ask you to login and update your details. They use these details to then log into your own Yahoo account, and carry out whatever activities they have planned, like using it to send spam to other people, use it to harrass other people, or look through your email looking for other information they can use.
Never click on links in these emails, rather instead go to a URL you know full well is a yahoo page and login through there.
Some browsers (older versions of Internet Explorer for example) have security problems that malicious people use to hide the real server name of where a page is coming from, and its far too easy to click on a link in these emails which takes you to a page that looks exactly like Yahoo, even to the extend the URL in the address looks like a Yahoo URL. That's why its safer to go via a page you already know is a Yahoo page - it bypasses their tricks.
Its safer just to delete them and forget them. Resist the temptation to open them, some of them have email bugs - little images that can be used to record which recipients actually looked at the email. There's nothing more valuable to spammers and phishers than knowing an email account is actively being read.
2006-11-28 03:05:32 · answer #1 · answered by Isofarro 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do not open anything from someone you don't know. Yahoo doesn't send out mail like this. And, Yahoo has one of the best spam blockers around. put a check mark beside the questionable message and click on spam. The message is gone and the sender is blocked from sending you anything else.
I just thought. Are you opening your bulk mail? If so, that's what bulk mail is for - to get rid of stuff like this so you don't have to look at it. Empty the bulk mail folder and leave these alone!
2006-11-28 03:50:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can't hurt to look at them as long as you don't open any attachments and view graphics is turned off. Sounds a little extreme to be from Yahoo.
2006-11-28 03:01:09 · answer #3 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋