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I keep getting emails telling me I need to update my Yahoo account. Why?

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.

Why do i keep getting irratating emails from yahoo telling me to update my password on my cell phone?

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.

Why do I keep getting emails telling me my password was changed?

Since you are the only person authorized to ever change any passwords, I suspect this is an example of phishing -- a criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information.

*****Do not reply to any links posted in the email*****

Forward the email you received to the account website in question (often the email address is spoof@xxxx.com). This kind of activity needs to be reported.

I keep getting emails from "YAHOO" telling me my account is suspended or going to be suspended - I spam this. Or is this actually YAHOO?

In a way this is spam, though technically it's called phishing. They direct you to their own YAHOO look alike website and harvest your sign on and password.

Provided people don't realize they are being fooled they a lot of Yahoo! accounts can be collected. These can be used for spam, phishing or impersonation.

Quite likely an account that is compromised will initiate targeted attacks from the contact list.

Your account is not going to be suspended from the email, though, if you break the rules, it may for other reasons. Just ignore the phishing emails. Official communication from Yahoo! will have the purple badge alongside the email address.

I keep getting email telling me to change my password is it scam?

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.

Keep getting E-mail telling me that Yahoo will close My account.?

"According to [Yahoo], my account should have been deleted by the end of December -- but I received yet another 'unexpected sign-in attempt' email (from South Korea, as usual) on Feb. 1," he said. A delay in closing the account coupled with an unauthorized sign-in may be why the account has not closed.

I ve been getting emails from people telling me to stop sending them my pictures on WhatsApp. I ve never signed up for it. What do I do?

Just ignore those emails - do not reply to them, they're phishing for active email addresses on an account data they bought.

I keep getting emails telling me I have inherited money from overseas...what is this?

This is called a Nigerian 419 scam.

Actually, what you need to do is forward these emails to spam@uce.gov, with full headers.

Blocking or filtering works only temporarily. These guys are using compromised computers to send the mail. Next time you get one, it will come from a different address and IP.

How'd they get your email address?

When someone forwards email, they do it automatically, without thinking. When you use a straight forward and include people in your mailing list, your contact's addresses go into the CC field. (carbon copy.)

This means that every recipient can see every email address in your list. Goes around a few times . . . spammers "mine" the addresses.

Whenever you see an email "forward this to everyone you know" you can BET it was started by a spammer, because they KNOW THIS about the average user. You can also bet the contents of the email is an urban legend, carefully crafted to tug at your emotions (help the poor little cancer boy, OMG pop rocks meth - there are thousands.)

What you SHOULD be doing: when you send to everyone on your list, make DOUBLE SURE you are putting their addresses in the BCC field. BCC means "blind carbon copy." This means no one can see your other contacts when they receive the email.

If everyone would wise up and do this, it would really **REALLY* hurt the spammers.