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.

To verify your information please follow this link:
https://www.mail.yahoo.com/config/users/verify.htm

Thanks for using Yahoo! Mail.

Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team

The link they provide https://www.mail.yahoo.com/config/users/verify.htm wants my credit card # . Doesn't sound right to me . Looking for feedback. THANKS

Well I can't connect to it right now, but i'm certain it's a scam. The real address is http://mail.yahoo.com , without the www

I can't find anything about that specific email at the moment but it sure has "SCAM" written all over it... these things have been going on for years.

They should never need to verify your account information like this, however, the request for the credit card number gives it away.

>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.

Acadia

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 ......... ):-)

Dave

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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.

81 Newbee

There are a few tricks that may be in play here:

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.