I recieved the following in my e-mail Dear Yahoo! User
During one of our regular automated verification procedures we've encountered a problem caused by the fact that we could not verify the data that you provided to us. Please, give us the following information so that we could fully verify your identity. Otherwise your access to Yahoo! services will be closed.
>your access to Yahoo! services will be closed >wants my credit card #
NO! Any legitimate company will not use scare tactics to force your credit card number from you. YAHOO is aware of this scam and I believe I read somewhere that YAHOO wants any one who receives this particular email to let them know.
I now just fill out all of the entries on those things with obscenities and submit them. They are all scams.
In my opinion any email that contains any words like "verification" along with "identidy" or "credit information" is bogus until proven otherwise. And if an internet company wants to deny me access to their services because I won't give them that information from that form ------------- well, I'd rather not do business with them anyway.
But now, here's maybe a better idea. If everyone filled them out with fictitious, but plausible information maybe the scammers will be too busy trying to use the bogus information to get to any of the ones that contain valid information.
(One of the most recent ones I've received seems to be just trying to obtain your eBay username and password. When I put obscenities in those fields and click "submit" it accepts it and then re-directs to the legitimate eBay site with an identical page but a different URL, similar to the "www.mail.yahoo....." vs "mail.yahoo....." mentioned above. I haven't heard back from eBay yet ......... ):-)
SCAM!!!!!!!.I have received a few of these .I don't live too far from Yahoos headquarters so I took a couple to them and they verified that they were aware of one and had found the source and were working on the other.The advice in the posts above is correct.No legitimate site will use this type of message.
1. It could be an HTML e-mail that looks like a text e-mail. The link that looks like it's going to go to mail.yahoo.com winds up going somewhere else.
2. The actual URL it goes to could be of the form username:password@www.somesite.com. For example, http://mail.yahoo.com:12345@www.pcqanda.com/. Of course, the URL would be padded with enough garbage characters (and encoded as well) so that all you see is the "mail.yahoo.com" part.