Yahoo phishing scam warning

August 24, 2011

Hi all,

A member of another Yahoo group I belong to received a very official sounding

email pretending to be from Yahoo. I have to say, it's one of the best

fraudulent emails I've ever seen, and I can see how people could be fooled into

believing it is legitimate. I will paste the content of that email below.

The fraudulent email claims the member's account has been compromised and asks

the user to provide their Yahoo ID and Password. Yahoo would *never* ask you to

provide that information as an email reply!

The member did provide that information and now her account is being used to

send spam emails, many of which are being bounced back to her.

If you do mistakenly provide your ID and password, change your Yahoo password

*immediately* through Yahoo's home page.

Here is the fraudulent email. Again, remember, Yahoo, and any other legitimate

service such as MSN, Gmail, etc. would *never* ask you to send them your ID and

password through an email.

- Helen

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Subject: Yahoo! Account Update

To:

Date: Wednesday, 24 August, 2011, 5:33 AM

ATTN: Yahoo! USERs,

We are contacting you to remind you that our Account Review Team identified some

unusual activity in your Yahoo! E-mail Account. As a result, access to your

account has been limited in accordance with the Yahoo! Online User Agreement.

Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved. You

are therefore required to provide the information below;

° Yahoo E-mail (**********) and Password (********)

*Important*

Please provide the above information completely and correctly otherwise due to

security reasons we may have to close your Yahoo! account temporarily. We thank

you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a

security measure intended to help protect you and your Yahoo! Account. We

apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks

The Yahoo! Technical Team

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