Anyone else with free account get an email like this???:

Account Alert

                     VERIFY YOUR FREE YAHOO ACCOUNT NOW !!!

Dear Yahoo Customer,  

This message is from yahoo message center to all yahoo free account owners and premium account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused yahoo account to create more space for new accounts. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a present used account.To do this, You have to click on your reply button to reply back to this message and then you fill the information below.Confirm Your Identity  

Yahoo! ID: ..............................................................Password: ........................................................................Your Birthday: ..................................................................Your Country or Territory: ...................................................Enter the letter from the Security Image:

Just a couple more details...

* Type the code shown  This helps Yahoo! prevent automated Verification. FILL THE ABOVE INFORMATIONS CORRECTLY TO AVOID YOUR ACCOUNT BLOCKEDWarning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

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Sounds like a buch of bull to me.I have 3 accounts and neither of my other 2 have gotten this message. It looks authentic but would really like to know if there is a way to verify before hitting the reply button,which of course I will not do.

 

I have 5 accounts....

Set it as spam, I have been getting a few and set them so I don't see them anymore, accounts are still working. If they (Yahoo) had the same spoof mail setup that PayPal does, they would be able to find out who is sending the phishing attempt e-mails. But hay unless your paying the yearly fee they are selling your account addresses and info anyway...

Tight Lines!!!!  

No valid company email would request a user's password or other information. If you get concerned an email is valid when they do this call the company directly to verify, but no one will do that anymore. Its a phishing attempt, nothing more.

Right I figured as much since they asked for password.

Hotmail pulled some crap on me a year or so ago but they merely said accounts inactive for 60 days will be deleted and then they proceded to delete my account since I didn't use it.

I got a bunch of pictures links and other info in my email.I guess common sense would dictate that I move what I want to storage somewhere else regardless. :

Anyone that would furnish the above information in a reply deserves what they have coming.

sounds like crapola....BUT i did have to update my info on my yahoo mail account last time i logged in. fyi.

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Yep I already did that too.

BTW I also posted this incase anyone else gets a bs email similar to that

Anyone that would furnish the above information in a reply deserves what they have coming.

Working in network security I am repeatedly amazed at what people will click on. No matter how much you train people they just down think about it, or in the case of links they don't look just click. In a way I have to agree they have it coming if they don't pay attention but when I have to fix it I get annoyed.....