My Yahoo email address keeps sending out random emails to my entire contact list. How do I stop it?
Most of the time this kind of thing is caused by the spammer having obtained the password by using phishing spam. It is a good idea to scan for viruses and spyware, too. To change your password, log into Yahoo mail and go to: Options Mail Options Account information You will be asked to give your password again. This is safe as long as you started from a proper Yahoo login, not a link from within a spam or other link. From here you can change your password. However, you also want to look at the Contact Information. You should find a Yahoo! Email that agrees with your account name. You may find a Home Email. This is an alternate contact address. There should not be one unless you entered one. If you find an unfamiliar one it could have been entered by the spammers. If they have inserted a home email under their control, they can report a "forgotten" password and collect the new password at that address. You should avoid posting your email address publicly. Posting it can increase the number of spam lists that harvest it. The spambots use the kind of webcrawler technology that enables search engines to index the Yahoo Answers questions. Another precaution that can help is to copy your address book to text, and email a copy to yourself. Keep a backup copy in case the spammer empties your mailboxes. Clean out the address book. This has the inconvenience of requiring you to copy and paste as needed to send email. A spammer with your password could possibly find your address list in your email. However, most of the time the address-book-abusing scripts are pretty automated, so a spam to an empty address book could be a spam to no one. You could include your own address in the address book just to see if a spammer is trying to abuse it. Such an incoming spam could be confused with a spam that forges recipient as sender. However, a spam to yourself from your own Yahoo account will probably display your real name as sender. The forged address as sender will probably identify the sender as the address. If you do want to solve a problem by starting a new account and abandoning the old: Test the new account for satisfactory function. You can send email to yourself. Forward important emails to the new address. Check the new account to be sure they arrived. Empty all mailboxes and empty the Trash. Empty the address book.
Autofill - When Inserting Email Addresses in Yahoo Mail? How Do I Turn it ON?
If I follow the instructions below when I get to Step 3 I don't have "AutoComplete" radio button. This feature use to work for me but stopped about a month ago! Thx http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071113175800AAOt05i&r=w&show_comments=true&pa=FZB6NWHjDG3N56z6v_2wXzW20BLmI1S.yIiyjXl0QCjotfA7GMZ.2g--&paid=add_comment#openions Best Answer - Chosen by Voters The AutoComplete feature doesn't seem to be working for some, but give it a try. You can change it in your options page. 1. Click on "Options" at the top right of your yahoo mail page. When the options page opens... 2. Click on "General Preferences." 3. Scroll down almost to the bottom of the page and across from "AutoComplete" check the radio button next to "Use Address AutoComplete." 4. Go to the bottom and click "Save."
Why am I getting an email from Fed Ex and UPS on the Spam folder telling me that a parcel will be mailed to me?
100% scam. Those emails are NOT from Fed Ex or UPS. That is a scammer trying to hi-jack your email address to spam all you contacts and then use the account to spam hundreds/thousands of others. Or have you download a horrible virus/trojan/keylogger onto your computer. Yahoo and all email companies, 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.
Thanks for asking!It's certainly an option.What I tend to do is something like this:Dear (Name),I'm not sure that you received my previous email, so am forwarding a copy to you, in case it bounced the first time I sent it. Please see below for the original message.Best regards from Deborah(Original message pasted in here.)My best guess is that the rate of prompt response to this is about 75%, which I consider to be a very decent level of success. My correspondent often includes an explanation, such as "I didn't receive the original," or "It went into my spam filter," or "Last week I was traveling an area of Nepal where internet access was unavailable," or "I owe you an apology - I've been really busy." In cases, where they don't respond, I might email them again, or try some other channel of communication.
Send email to all contacts?
First...make note of this You can only send to a maximum of 100 addresses at a time and no more than 50 to the same domain IE: @yahoo.com.... This is to prevent SPAMMERS from overdoing it... This includes any CATEGORY you formulate to make it easier sending to multiple addresses. If more than one CATEGORY the total of BOTH cannot exceed the restrictions. If you want to hide all addresses from one another put 100 in the BCC line and put NOTHING in the TO line ... recipients will see UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENT in the TO line which does not effect anything... You will know when you have reached your limit when you receive notification from Yahoo advising you have reached your limit...When this happens you may have to wait a half hour or so before you can continue sending messages with many email addresses...Normally, after receiving this notification you can still send emails with messages containing only a few email addresses.. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It is best to use the BCC line when sending...this explains how Any address that you don't want the others to know that they are receiving it must be placed in the BCC line MAIL CLASSIC Click on INSERT ADDRESSES which is located just above the TO line. Once your contact list comes up place a check mark in the BCC box to the left of the address you want there.....If it is a CATEGORY you want click on CATEGORIES and once those are displayed put a check mark in the BCC box and then click on INSERT ADDRESSES.. This list will also be brought up by clicking on the TO....CC ....SHOW BCC. ALL NEW MAIL There is no INSERT ADDRESSES so you must click on SHOW BCC which follows the TO line. This in turn brings up the BCC line. Click on BCC. When the list comes up you will see where your CATEGORIES are inner mingled with the individual addresses. You will have to hilite those that you want in the BCC line by clicking on them and adding them one at a time. Hopefully, they are in a category, which makes it easier. In either case above ... if you pick a category...once that is inserted you can add individual addresses by putting a comma after the last one showing and after each one you add except for the last one. If you find ALL NEW MAIL a little inconvenient you can switch to MAIL CLASSIC by clicking on options...One of those will be to go to Mail Classic
How can I quit getting so much junk mail?
If the junk mail has no return letter, simply stick it back in the mailbox after you write "Return To Sender!" If the junk mail has a postage paid envelope, simply take everything that was sent to you and put it into the postage paid envelope. Drop it in the mail and the company who sent you that junk mail will be forced to pay over a dollar to the Post Office. since the Post Office will be making so much money on those returned letters, maybe they won't raise our rates again so soon. Oh, wait! they already did? Well, never mind! By the way, if the company does not take the hint, you can always fill the postage paid envelope with something heavier the second and third time. If it will fit in the envelope, they will have to pay for the wheight when it gets there. I would not do this to anyone you regularly do business with, but you would be amazed at the way this cuts down on the paper in my mailbox!