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I just had someone hack my yahoo account sending disturbing email to all on my email contacts.
Help me please make it more secure.
I just opened up a new account on Friday Aug 15, 2008 with yahoo and used an older yahoo account as the alternate email address. To that alternate email address this email was sent on the same day. In the header, when you mouse over the little key it says, “This sender is DomainKeys verified.” So I think this is legit, but wanted to make sure.
Verify this email address
Friday, August 15, 2008 6:09 PM
From: This sender is DomainKeys verified “yahoo-account-services-us@cc.yahoo-inc.com” Add sender to Contacts To:
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I believe you are correct that it is a legit address. Yet, here is what the boneheads at Yahoo India said:
From: “Yahoo! India”
To:
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Yahoo! India Customer Care.
The webpage or message that you are writing about is a hoax originated
by someone other than Yahoo!.
You should assume that any unsolicited message asking for your Yahoo! ID
and password, security key, or other sensitive information is part of a
scam to gain unauthorised access to your account. Feel free to simply
delete such messages, or if you would like to be sure we are aware of
the scam, you can forward a copy to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com. If you
have already entered your information into a suspicious message or web
page, you should immediately change your password and update any other
information you provided.
If you provided credit card or other financial details, you should also
contact………….
I checked my email and all of my messages were gone except one which read:
Dear AT&T Yahoo! Customer:
We noticed that you are accessing email using non-secure settings in your email software.
We would like to ensure that your AT&T Yahoo! Member ID, password, and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail software (such as Outlook or Outlook Express) and the AT&T Yahoo! Mail servers. In order to meet this need, please enable SSL via the instructions that are available on the Help site.
Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client.
Thank you for your cooperation,
AT&T Yahoo! Customer Support
It has to be fraud involved because all of my email mysteriously disappeared. Who should I contact? Thank you








