Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Is email ID "customerservice220@yahoo.com" real Yahoo! customer service ID? or a spam?

Please see below the email and advise the genuiness of this email





From: "Yahoo!" %26lt;customerservice220@yahoo.com%26gt; Add Mobile Alert


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


To: customerservice220@yahoo.com


Dear Account User,


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:........................





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Is email ID "customerservice220@yahoo.com" real Yahoo! customer service ID? or a spam?
Oh please don't answer this! This is called spoofing or phishing. Obviously, what they want is for you to "confirm" your account details. Yahoo, the REAL Yahoo, already has this information.


If you received an email impersonating Yahoo! and would like to report it please forward 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:Copy this email and send it to Yahoo help. They will reply within 24 hours.





Actually I doubt that it is legit simply because it asking to verify your password. No credible co. /person asks for your password, EVER, because if it's not in their system, they will issue a temporary password to you that you may change upon access to your account.
Reply:it definitely looks like a scam...don't give away your password


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