Yahoo Email Alert

[Arab Nights (imported)]

I am separating this just to draw attention to a problem.

I had posted recently in Tech & Computer looking for a solution to a problem. The problem is that my email begin sending out emails promoting viagra to groups of three people on my contact list. I did not even find out until one was sent to a defunct email address and I got a delivery failure notification. When I went to emails sent, I could see they were sending emails even during hours when my computer was turned off.

As part of looking for a solution, I noticed that Yahoo is now promoting a sign-in seal. You kind of design it and (I think) you have to install it on each computer you use. I happened to notice an explanation that if you do not see it, you have been re-routed to a different site and do not proceed.

So just a bit ago I wanted to check my email. I went to the Yahoo home page and clicked on email. A funny thing happened. It looked exactly like the Yahoo email sign-in page EXCEPT the seal was not there and the URL window was red with a caution that the site did not have a valid certification or something like that. In other words, I had been diverted even when clicking on email from the Yahoo home page.

I would have to recommend that everybody using Yahoo do that sign-in seal.

[chemcast scot (imported)]

Thank you for letting us know about this problem, so that we all can get it sorted out.

[Paolo]

Just don't move the image file you use for the seal! I've done this since they started offering it.

For example, if you had typed in yahooo in the URL with an extra "o", you might get sent to a fake site. I never click links in emails either; I go to the page manually to see if the alert is real.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

So here is the latest in the Yahoo email saga.

I signed in this morning thru the Yahoo page. I entered email as always only when the sign-in seal shows. (I have almost been led astray by fake Yahoo pages that look exactly like the real one, but no signin seal and the URL was wrong). So I go to an email from a friend and try to open it.

What showed was a message from a sex med store. The URL was http://us.mc532.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welco ... 75&.rand=5.

I backed out, reentered and this time could open her email. The URL was http://us.mc532.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welco ... 928.rand=9.

I now have lost confidence in Yahoo and just opened an email account with the competition.

Has this happened with anybody else? Is it peculiar to Yahoo or is it one of those things that is everywhere?

[chemcast scot (imported)]

It seems to be with a lot of providers,but even more so with yahoo,i do not trust them one bit. And they never seem to do anything to sort this problem out,I know that when they overcome things there are other problems,but at least make it look like they are trying.

[JessicaH (imported)]

There have been some serious hacking coming out of china and it is suspected that they are using something that looks like a standard spam link all as part of a practice run for something much larger. You probably. Had your. Password ha led and they are just using your account.with todays technology you need atleast 12 CHARACTERS IN YOUR PASSWORD TO MAKE IT DIFFI ULT FOR THE HACKERS. YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR PW IMMEDIATELY.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

I did change it in response to the first problem. My password is now strong with a mix of letters - a capital tossed in - and numbers. I also added the signin design as Yahoo recommended. Since then I have several times gone thru the Yahoo page to my email and found the signin design does not show. I always back out and start over. Usually the second or third time things seem to work as Yahoo tells you it should.

In summary, I have followed Yahoo's suggestions. If that does not work, then we are bumping up against my limits of patience. Simply put, I will not tolerate limitless nonsense to use Yahoo email. There has to be a limit where one email service is getting to be too much trouble and I am getting there.

[Sweetpickle (imported)]

I recently had a fake email adventure and I think it was done as follows;

I got an email from Facebook ( I assume) saying someone wanted to contact me.

When I clicked on the link it took me to Facebook, but

it was also able to access a history of all the email I had ever

sent from that mail service.

Facebook had repeatedly ask for my password, but I hadn't

given it.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I have recently received several False contact messages from "Facebook" and also some nasty spam from the computers of correspondents who are heavy facebook users leading me to suspect a fault in Facebook's security. --FLO--

[Paolo]

Same here. I'm getting a lot of this "so-and-so commented on your photo".

If they want it to work, though, they should send it to the email I used for Facebook!

Like I said, go there manually and make sure the notification is real.