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Offline Anne

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This one is designed to panic you into thinking your Yahoo! email account will be deleted if you don't respond to it.

Don't respond as Yahoo! will not delete your account - this is a  phishing attempt designed to get access to your email account for nefarious purposes.  Just delete and forget it!

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From: "Yahoo! Alert" <alert@cc.yahoo-inc.com>
Reply-To: youryupgrade@live.com
Subject: Important Information Regarding Your Yahoo Account

Dear User,
   
We are sorry to inform you that we are currently working
on securing our
server, during this process account which is not manually
verified by us will
be deleted, Please confirm and submit your information for
manual verification
by one of our customer care.
       
Information which is to be provided is below:
User Name:
User Id:
Password:
Date Of Birth:
Country (At Sign up):
       
Upon confirmation of information from you, we will
manually verify your Yahoo!
Account and reserve it not to be deleted, We are sorry for
any inconveniences
this might have cause providing  your information over the
email.
     
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her
account after two
weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her
account permanently.
______________________________________________________________________________
                 
Copyright ? 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright/IP Policy | Terms
of Service | Guide to Online Security
                       
NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site.
     
To learn more about how we use your information, see our
Privacy Policy.

You will see that this one is designed to be replied to by email - so when you hit Reply it will actually go to the address shown beside the Reply to: in red above, and not to Yahoo! at all.

This is a scam!
Cheers, 
Anne, Board Admin

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Re: Phishing Email: Yahoo account to be deleted (yeah right!)
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2009, 06:54:04 PM »
Another copy of this received todjavascript:void(0);ay with the reply to address: Reply-To: y.upgrade@live.com

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X-Apparently-To: <removed>@yahoo.co.uk via 87.248.115.74; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:34:53 +0000
X-YMailISG: 27tHwTgWLDsnEY_I_83wD1SZk1Quq6OUP9t.Mch4O6bj7QXyxuM2Wb_K864wVnVN2udoqJElUOM4pVigghaZ.QsnLX6K33eW1v67yBQK2xexPtERLauxHmETPBRt6Ado9EI3EhAE7d.ZApEMVH1OqxCTKPOJMV7BaF.W4SFWRy4LzvRktzUUU15jf4U0nvQjau_rwVBSvX894h390MO6zqQYfftu69XQoA2aI5OVai_ebVFIsVucLnR0p1wdQ3JZUtsUksGrgPyUkSeOjeX7jZHOz0jLEayTZz2GedeigO1u5RkuJDThtJNdP9_gGTUPWHL6Vg4exszFCjDf6sKYTThl8XYtZ4.8P15zAXybWjdfmwwF7UKRbM2HQ2045fsLqgxvDJCLt48vL2zPz0gGZu78ehDlZBuETYHP0zs5ICSo8bURaGjR_lpW9kyXMMdZt4Y5Us4dJTRCQeM-
X-Originating-IP: [209.239.36.229]
Authentication-Results: mta136.mail.ukl.yahoo.com  from=yahoo-inc.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=yahoo-inc.com; dkim=neutral (no  sig)
Received: from 209.239.36.229  (EHLO host4.oneononeinternet.com) (209.239.36.229)
  by mta136.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:34:51 +0000
Received: from go2flix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by host4.oneononeinternet.com (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n7FFYo9h012103;
        Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:34:50 -0400
From: "Yahoo! Alert" <alert@yahoo-inc.com>
Reply-To: y.upgrade@live.com
Subject: Important Information Regarding Your yahoo Account
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:34:50 -0400
Message-Id: <20090815153450.M24803@yahoo-inc.com>
X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502
X-OriginatingIP: 41.219.243.80 (tinny)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset=iso-8859-1
X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (host4.oneononeinternet.com [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:34:50 -0400 (EDT)
« Last Edit: August 15, 2009, 07:05:54 PM by Anne »
Cheers, 
Anne, Board Admin

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Re: Phishing Email: Yahoo account to be deleted (yeah right!)
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2010, 12:41:20 PM »
This scam / phishing attempt has raised its head again:
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X-Apparently-To:  xxxxxxxxxs@yahoo.co.uk via 87.248.115.74; Thu, 03 Jun 2010
04:56:21 +0000
X-YMailISG:
lLVvKK0WLDseVGUOzWqfQsNLhlzeYqWYrPmU1wKaRUyCgWge2cAi6rj5.QkPmIm04AseeiSzsodhnLmWPnqK7aQcuvRCtmpMoWZd3.FqHh_RlduJSA9.WgFZad5piL7ISpbuSCsm0EueqtwQgF5hZLoEKFHNFXV0hyInGQ.EJnIQdJRP81snOmdAFPikyDcZ5gwa66bntXF76Pnpt_XA2iz0BM.av9TQBaGGFrJ1_cVqeNkSzO0ZdWoA7Yms1OF6U5qj7Ooo8ZRuFksImAyMnYLifHrasR9QLFCeJrz4tVJbHy6bwXf2qlzgtyx6kgWoVkZv3WoeG9YG0cZ84ntDiISkALbplurUER1cxDwn1mpRGsNcBdgY4BP_uRnfLBOVwAbSfcsJMg01JWjCfVd64d_OmaY4kVBq9D3FZMpZJK9PuA3eD9R4r4ktNIPtaN37exWUZiMbD7yr4KppLVx7KOJVr3Ge8N2kzoTz1xZJ0WxsZKF89P3lHv53VvkfJ70G.8mrioyLr9tufANXBwzZUhNu7C7VuBJ_Gj8nbZ1ENAU.xEPX42dRHcieuXleOEgkdg3_Fxulg7RtnqlSvpc6cKzuG3DE8o3.mVH2XuDOdZvfOtuOTAAXXuJJmCNpgP7uhrUKWWVIjpIHqmR6263hjS5exJd1OM_Hm3lo2cbBIlCkImIvZ_dswDCZH0KfHuQFOyYxpyly5pHrm8.Upy7VSjuRNc8kzcJxSuCqqftcCWRb.bLZhwNPxIlGXU0XY6GYkSlq0kSaQoS.wMLl5x.po0w2qwyYvNTTkZQq4bgavEgWGAUjnKgQWc2NMv7ZBg--
X-Originating-IP: [193.252.22.128]
Authentication-Results: mta1010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com  from=cc.yahoo-inc.com;
domainkeys=neutral (no sig);  from=cc.yahoo-inc.com; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 127.0.0.1  (EHLO smtp5.freeserve.com) (193.252.22.128)
  by mta1010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:56:20 +0000
Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by mwinf3418.me.freeserve.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id
895611C01A5B;
        Thu,  3 Jun 2010 06:56:20 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
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789251C01A82;
        Thu,  3 Jun 2010 06:56:20 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from User (unknown [82.128.84.23])
        by mwinf3418.me.freeserve.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id
9E9DB1C01A5B;
        Thu,  3 Jun 2010 06:56:14 +0200 (CEST)
X-ME-UUID: 20100603045614649.9E9DB1C01A5B@mwinf3418.me.freeserve.com
X-ME-User-Auth: watsonians@wanadoo.co.uk
Reply-To: <verifyalert106@yahoo.com.hk>
From: "yahoo-account-services-us"<my-login-request@cc.yahoo-inc.com>
Subject: Yahoo Alert
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 05:56:15 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <20100603045614.9E9DB1C01A5B@mwinf3418.me.freeserve.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
X-EsetId: 15D082287E3163690AD6827C776023

Yahoo! 
We are really sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you. Due to the congestion in all Yahoo! account users, Yahoo! will be shutting down all unverified accounts. In order to avoid the deactivation of your account, you will have to confirm your e-mail by filling your Login Info below by clicking the reply button.
 
Username: .........................................
Password: ..........................................
Date Of Birth: .....................................
Occupation: .......................................
Country Of Residence: ..........................
Primary E-mail:..................................
 
Please reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of Yahoo! Mail. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! Mail is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
 
Yahoo! Customer Care
 
Case number: 8941624
Property: Account Security
Contact date: 2010
 
Yahoo!Copyright ? June 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.

As ever, if you get one of these just ignore and delete it... NEVER enter your password or other info on any such email - Yahoo! or anyone else will NEVER ask you for such details by email!!!
Cheers, 
Anne, Board Admin

 

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