Sunday, November 27, 2011

[Simply Computers] Re: Has anybody Received a Phishing Email from 'Yahoo!' ?

 

Perhaps you wrote the wrong date? November 2010? I would ignore it. There is nothing that would make me believe it is legit.

Here's a recent reference to "Sample phishing email: Account Shutdown"
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/phishing-01.html
http://tinyurl.com/7ngfth5

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "spud" <grandamfirebird@...> wrote:
>
> Sounds legit to me ..

> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "likwanlap" <likwanlap@> wrote:
> >
> > I received a 'Yahoo!' email at 22:50 on the 27th November 2010, purporting to be a query as to whether I wish to continue with one of my two Yahoo! email accounts (I was under the impression that Yahoo and Google email accounts are 2GB or unlimited; I have had this account for about 10 years and have never received a query asking me to confirm whether I wish to continue The email says it is shutting down some Yahoo accounts due to congestion, and that my account has been selected I am asked to confirm whether I wish to continue using the account by clicking onto a link in the email message
> >
> > Is this a phishing email to elicit my account password?
> >
> > RSVP I await your opinons and will be grateful for your input Please reply as soon as possible for I fear loosing my Yahoo account due to a lack of response to the query email
> >
> > Thank You
> > Andre

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