Beware of this Yahoo scam
September 1, 2009
Filed under Email Scams
I do not know how many of you have been recieving emails such as this one. But do not respond to them. They are a hoax. You should never give out your information over the computer about your user name and password. These people are just trying to intimidate us and gather information so they can use it against us. They have no right to interfer and try to gather our information without going through proper channels. With emails like this can we really even trust anything thing that does come from Yahoo care center. Just becareful.
Dear Account User,
This Email is from YAHOO; user Customer Care and we are sending it to every webmail User Accounts Owner for safety. we are havingcongestions due to the anonymous registration of accounts so we are shutting down some accounts and your account was among those to be deleted.We are sending you this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.
Your User name,
password,
date of bith and your
country
information would be needed to verify your account.Due to the congestion in all YAHOO users and removal of all unused Accounts, webmail would be shutting down all unused Accounts,
You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 48 hours for security reasons.
* Username: …………………………
* Password: ……………………….
* Date of Birth: ……………………
* Country Or Territory: ……………..
Your response should be sent to admin manager
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently…
Waiting to received the details of your two email.
Regard,
Customer Care Of webmail Team
Yahoo! Account Services
This post was submitted by Sandra Thompson.
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