Why does Gmail ask for my phone number whenever I try to create a new account?
As Priya said - to stop fake and spammy accounts from being made.You create one account? Okay, great. Create two? Sure, why not… everyone needs a backup. Create three? I mean, yeah… I can see how some people may need more than two mail accounts. Four? Five? Same as three… More than that, though, is just going overboard.That’s why you need to verify your phone number after that you’ve created a couple of accounts on a single IP address.This, however, is a shoddy implementation of an anti-spam mechanic as it’s very, VERY easily bypassed. There are virtual SMS numbers, methods others have stated in this thread that are easy to do, apps for virtual SIM cards, and a lot more that can be used to bypass this “protection”, but many people won’t go to those lengths just to create more accounts, so I guess it works to a degree.
Did I really win $500,000.00 for opening a Yahoo Beta mail account? See the attached letter. Thanks?
Absolutely not. Classic Nigerian scam artists. Ignore them.
I received this in my email today, Is this real or a hoax?
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.
Is this a scammer emailing me?
I received an email in my "non scam" mail on yahoo.com. The message told me to email this other guy about claiming some supposed money I won in a drawing. I emailed the guy because I was curious, but when he emailed me back, it popped up in my spam folder. here is the email. Does this scream scam to you as well? Dear Beneficiary, National Lottery Promotion, REF: 478520710-039, BATCH: 31403/11, Ticket Number: 218-14464713-730 Valued Amount $550,000.00 (Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand Dollars) Only. Further to the receipt of your mail with reference to the above mentioned subject, we are pleased to inform you that arrangement has commenced for the immediate release of your won prize. In view of the above stated fact therefore, you are to follow a simple laid down procedure in line with the Lotto laws of the UK to ensure that your winnings are released to you within 10 days. You are therefore required to immediately provide the required details below and send same back for prompt processing of your winnings. This is important. Awaiting your immediate response. Regards, Michael Smith . IF YOU HAVE A LONG DISTANCE FACILITY ON YOUR TELEPHONE, DIAL (011) FOLLOWS BY MY COUNTRY CODE (44) THEN BY MY TELEPHONE NUMBER (7045775224) Please fill out the below stated form and send back to us with your response. Full Names: Address: Age: Sex: Mobile Phone: I hereby declare that all the information herein provided by me represents my true identity and therefore can be used for the payment of my winnings. I am therefore liable for error arising as a result of data provided herein by me. I want to email him back my info just to see if it is a scam, BUT i dont feel comfortable putting my home address on there, and I dont have a P.O box.. what do you think?
What made Gmail unique when it was first launched? What are the things that distinguished it from other competitors?
A couple of reasons that made Gmail insanely great at launch were based on how radically different, new or ahead (better) they were when compared to any existing player:Data storage - Hotmail, Yahoo and all other major email providers were still circling the 2-5 MB data storage limit range. Enter Gmail with their 1 GB storage limit - which was a quantum jump over the competition. They took it a step further, where you could save all your mail (like the real world) and not choose what letters you would like to keep and not keep - and when you needed it you could just "search" for it - which was a big deal back then.Significantly faster response - When the team at Google was working on Gmail, like Google's search engine, speed was again key. The interface was light, and had no image/flash based ads keep it quick and easy to load. Simple theory - it was clean; it was simple; it worked!Conversation View - This is probably one of the core gmail experiences that was directly visible to the end-user. Conversation-view let users explore emails that were spread over any time period and still maintain the train of thought connected to a thread.Spam Filtering - Gmail had a significantly better Spam Filter. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail (both used by me at the time) always had relevant mail in the Spam Folder and vice-versa.Invites - This was the one final social boost they got during the launch. Gmail was rolled out to new users in phases for obvious product testing and scalability related reasons. However, in the user world, getting a gmail account was cool. Unlike social networks, your friends didn't need to be on it for them to know you were on it. You could show off your gmail id, and how you have access to all these cool services - "Yeah... Just write down my id... its xyz@gmail.com" :P. Initially, Gmail was invite only. And then you could invite only 5 of your friends - which was later increased to 50 before it was finally removed. This led to a great sense of exclusivity. (They tried to replicate a similar model during the launch of Google Wave and Google+, but didn't quite work out for them.)
My yahoo address is sending out strange emails by itself?
I recently started getting delivery failure messages that state emails I tried to send out failed delivery.When I look at the email it is something I didn't write with a link to some stupid sales website for some product.When I look in my sent folder it shows my email address has sent a bunch of emails out.I did not send them.How do I fix this or what is going on?
I am getting lot of spam emails that I didn’t sign up for. How can I stop the emails?
Use an email service which is very good at filtering SPAM.Google’s GMail is such a service, and tends to be pretty great at it; accounts are free.If your ISP isn’t going to do anything about it, then you’ll have to train up the mail filtering in your email client itself.If it doesn’t have one, you will need to switch email clients.Training up your filter has two problems:You will never be as good at it as Google is, with billions of accounts receiving something, it’s easy to recognize SPAM as something sent to a lot of their usersYou will still be downloading the SPAM, you just won’t be seeing it, so if you are paying for metered rate Internet service, the SPAM will still cost you money, and if you have a slow connection, the SPAM will still cost you timePersonally, I’d just get a GMail account.
Yahoo mail - how do i stop spam? Getting about 20 messages a day!?
You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it. First, try not to open any of them, that only makes them send more and more to you. Check mark them and click on 'Spam,' this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox. Use your spam guard and block address. Look for the 'Options' link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it Options /mail options Click on 'spam' in the list on the left. Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box. Then in 'Blocked Email Addresses,' enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after 'Add a blocked address' and click on the 'add' button, then click on save changes at top left of screen. You will never get mail from that address again. This should help you to control your spam. Other tips: Do not ever open E-mail from people you do not know; and unless you are absolutely sure who it is from then treat them as spam. Opening spam alerts the sender that your address is a valid one and they send you loads and loads more of it to you. Never, ever give out your account information or other personal information to anyone. If you are on a site and you absolutely have to sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you any other info, notices, catalogs, ads, and the like. Added detail: Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in *@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com for instance: *@seeyou.com Or, if they change the domain, instead of the company name you can block the name by putting in Imatheft_inc@* Hope this helps