I feel that this may be fraud, would you please verify.
Thanks
Dear Account User Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:32 AM
From: “Customer Service” Add sender to ContactsTo: undisclosed-recipients
Dear Account User
An HTK4S virus has been detected in your E-mail folders because your email has
exceeded its storage limits which is 20GB as set by administrator you may no
longer be able to received some 101kb mails. Your email account therefore
requires verification for continuous activity or you may not be able to send or
receive new mail . And your Yahoo email account has to be upgraded to our new
F-Secure R HTK4S anti-virus/anti-Spam version 2011 to prevent damage to our
mail log and your important files. You are required to do this before the next
24 hours of receipt of this email or your info will be erased and De-activated
from our database.fill the form on this link below
(
https://creator.zoho.com/johnson121/mail-upgrade/form-perma/Mail_Upgrade/taGYhvwHF43V1r7Vf0YaG6NsBK6uOQvB9GjA2jA5ghuFgkfGsbuP4pTmKxRKWHMH9a75AhWwPfqjymuMrjekZDWjEyAhasXBCRm6/
)
We apologies for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period.
Warning!!! Yahoo Account owners are expected to update their accounts within
24hrs,after receipt of this notice. Failure to do this will immediately render
your account deactivated from our database and service will not be interrupted
as important messages may as well be lost due to your declining to re-comfirmed
to us your account details. We apologies for the inconvenience that this will
cause you during this period, but trusting that we are here to serve you better
and providing more technology which revolves around Secured Email
Sincerely,
Yahoo Customer Care Support
100% scam.
That is a scammer trying to hi-jack your email address to spam all your contacts and then use the account to spam hundreds/thousands of others.
Yahoo and all email companies, all banks and all companies in the entire world will NEVER ask for your password, pin or date of birth. No Exceptions Ever.
Ignore and delete that email and any others demanding such information.
If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his ‘potential sucker’ list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of needing your password, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don’t bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn’t worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money, email address or identity to a scammer.
If you google “yahoo email phishing scam”, “email hijacked viagara porn spammer” or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.
In fact, if you check out the section here at Yahoo Answers entitled “Yahoo email, spam and bulk mail” you will find hundreds of questions from victims who have had their email address hi-jacked or spoofed by scammers sending out porn and viagra spam.
Do you believe that a Yahoo (which is capitalized instead of lowercase) email that redirects you to a non-Yahoo link is legit?
How gullible are you?
Phishing scam. Yahoo doesn’t bother detecting your viruses.
If the letter is without the purple seal or insignia of Yahoo!, it is Fraud/Scam!
It’s a scam. Do not reply.
It’s very easy to tell this is a scam
1 – Yahoo will always address you by your first and last name in any correspondence
2 – All Yahoo emails will have a purple Y! logo to the left of the message in your Inbox
3 – Yahoo spells its name Yahoo! with the exclamation point in all official correspondence
4 – Yahoo would never ask you to click on any link, especially a non-Yahoo link
Yahoo does not close account unless there is no activity for more than 6 months. As long as you log into Yahoo mail or Yahoo Answers at least once every 6 months your account will never be deleted
This us most certainly a scam. Do not click any links or take any action that the email requests of you.
Contact customer services direct (on the official number you will find this in the yahoo website).
Infirm them if this scam and then delete the email