Yahoo users: Don't fall for this

[wizard]

I got this morning marked with high importance in my e-mail. It's not from Yahoo....I checked. Doc

Your two incoming mails were placed on pending status due to the recent upgrade to our database,
In order to receive the messages to login and wait for responds from Yahoo.
We apologies for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Regards, Yahoo Group.
The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material.
Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.
If you received this in Spam, please kindly move it to inbox.

 

[Dalecamino]

Thanks Doc.

 

[MesquiteMan]

Just remember, you will never (at lease I have never heard of it or seen it!) receive a legitimate e-mail from a company with grammatical errors such as above.

 

[jd99]

Just remember, you will never (at lease I have never heard of it or seen it!) receive a legitimate e-mail from a company with grammatical errors such as above.

That's the first thing I noticed, and look for in these scam emails, get several a day.

I like the ones where they type them in their language, then use some freeware translator program and send the email, the subject line has weird charcters and spaces in the middle of the words or the words aren't words.

Yep you bet I'm going to open that. :wink:

 

[MesquiteMan]

If you are interested in seeing how well you can detect phishing e-mails, take this test here: MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test

This site also has good info on how to detect phishing scams and what they are: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/security/email/phishing.html

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Just remember, you will never (at lease I have never heard of it or seen it!) receive a legitimate e-mail from a company with grammatical errors such as above.

Oooooops,

it's OK. We know that you are legit.:biggrin:

 

[The Penguin]

stop using Yahoo mail. it sucks, their security sucks and did I mention...it sucks.

 

[randyrls]

If you are interested in seeing how well you can detect phishing e-mails, take this test here: MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test

This site also has good info on how to detect phishing scams and what they are: Phishing E-mail

To join the thread; I took the quiz, but only got an 80% because I flagged two legitimate emails as phishing.

The bottom line for ANY email you receive is NEVER CLICK ON ANY LINK IN AN EMAIL. If you think the email may be legitimate, open your browser, and type the web site address.

 

[joefyffe]

Thanks Doc! I don't use yahoo, but I'm quite sure this is not specific to Yahoo!

 

[Dave Turner]

Just an alternative opinion on Yahoo Mail. I've used their premium mail service for the past 10 years and love it. I've never had a problem. The service has always be reliable and responsive for me. Their spam filtering is very efficient and I really like having unlimited email aliases. I use a site-specific address for every site I sign up with.

Note: I'm not affiliated with Yahoo in any way other than being a satisfied customer of their email service. I also have a free email account with gmail, which I also like.