Subject: Yahoo! Warning! Verify Your Account Now To Avoid It Closed ( VX2G99AAJ )?

I received the following email today. I believe it is fraud. If so, it would also pose a security risk. It looks to me like a scam. Can you please inform me whether this is a legitimate email from Yahoo! or a scam?





Many Thanks,





Charlie Delgado











Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:02:36 -0700 (PDT)


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Subject: Yahoo! Warning! Verify Your Account Now To Avoid It Closed ( VX2G99AAJ )


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Account User,


Yahoo!


Account Alert








VERIFY YOUR FREE YAHOO ACCOUNT NOW !!!





Dear Account User,


This message is from Yahoo! message center to all Yahoo! free account owners and premium account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused Yahoo! account to create more space for new accounts.





To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a present used account.





Confirm Your Account Details





Yahoo! ID:.................





Password:123456........................





Your Birthday:.................





Your Country or Territory:...........





Enter the letter from the Security Image :. Registration Verification Code





Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.








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Subject: Yahoo! Warning! Verify Your Account Now To Avoid It Closed ( VX2G99AAJ )?
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Reply:Do not give out the information they are asking you for. What they are doing is trying to phish you to steal your account away from you. Yahoo! already has all of that information on file. You need to report it so they can do an investigation. Here is the link you need to use.


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/securit...
Reply:Definitely a SCAM. Yahoo or any large company NEVER asks personal information in this manner. They are trying to bait you with a promotion or sweep stake like drawing to get your personal info. If you give them the info above they will steal your identify, not only on Yahoo but maybe your personal stuff too.
Reply:Yes, this is fraud, and it's called spoofing or phishing. What they want is for you to answer them, then they'll ask you to confirm your logon id and password. Once you've given them that, your account is taken over. You can report this to Yahoo by forwarding the email to: mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com.


If you have already been tricked into giving your password, please visit


http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?a...


and follow the instructions there. Also:


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
Reply:S C A M
Reply:Just by opening such an email -- you are confirming that you HAVE an active account !! And, when you ANSWER an email such as this -- they have info on you that is worth a mountain of data to anyone that they would choose to outlet it to !! Stay COMPLETELY AWAY from such stuff --- it is Fraudulent and it is meant to do you harm !!!
Reply:Yahoo already has a procedure in place for dealing with inactive accounts (those not accessed within a 4-month period). They would have absolutely no reason for sending out such a nonsense email.
Reply:Yahoo will never ask such personal info, it's a phishing e-mail... do not reply:





http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?a...
Reply:It's a scam. Don't fall for it.