Is Yahoo serious about stopping 419 and lottery scammers from using Yahoo Mail?

I have a regular email address that I use everyday for regular emails from subscriptions and from casual friends. I have another that I don't use that much and was planning on closing it. I get a lot of Nigerian 419 and lottery scam emails on a weekly basis and I report them to abuse@yahoo.com soon afterwards.





On a lark, I decided to check to see if the Yahoo accounts that the scammers were using had been shutdown, so I put all the email addresses into my other account (the one I don't use) and sent a little note to all of the scammers who had contacted me.





To my surprise, most of the email addresses were still active, including the Yahoo accounts. I know this because the emails didn't bounce-back to me. Yahoo seems to have the largest number of active scammer addresses and I had reported all of them. I reported them a second time and, still, most of them are still active! If Yahoo is serious about stopping scammers from using Yahoo Mail, why don't they shut them down?

Is Yahoo serious about stopping 419 and lottery scammers from using Yahoo Mail?
these are our options at this point


BLOCK SENDERS LIST - SPAM - FILTERS - REPORT SPAM





NEVER OPEN LINKS IN EMAIL YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT


DO ALL THIS TO HELP TO PREVENT SPAM TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS


BLOCKING A SENDER


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


open email program


top right of page choose options


then choose block senders


type in address


OR JUST CLICK THE SPAM BUTTON IT WILL DO IT FOR YOU


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...


BULK MAIL OPTION


open mail program


on right side choose options


then General Preferences


Then Special Folders:


check these two boxes


Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder


Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder


you will never see bulk email again





USE FILTERS TO AUTOMATICALLY HAVE EMAILS SENT TO A FOLDER ETC


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/...


YAHOO FILTERS LINK


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...


go to mail page


choose options top right corner of the page


then Filters


set it up


choose words like you see in email in subject line


this seems to work best


REPORT SPAM REPORT ABUSE


spam@uce.gov


abuse@yahoo.com


phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com.


report spam from yahoo and q%26amp;a


Answers-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com


y_answers_team@yahoo.com


customer care cc-advoc@yahoo-inc.com


email yahoo at this address


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


MORE AGENCYS


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/


Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov


Treasury Department: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/


FTC: http://www.ftc.goV/


Treasury Department: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/fe...


MORE INFO ABOUT SECURITY


http://security.yahoo.com/