Yahoo! Alert!

I recently received an email from so called Yahoo! Alert!. Here's what the email says:

The mail comes from

Do you think this is phishing? Anyone here also received this kind of email?

 

This surely appears to be phishing as yahoo will never ask for name and password...and btw....do you really think such big organization has time and people to undertake manual verification for all counts...which might number into millions and millions?

Just throw this mail into trash!
On second thought, you might as well report this to yahoo as scam.....Might save a newbie...somewhere!

Regards,

RightMan

 

I agree with you Rightman... Yahoo is a big organization which have dynamic and useful portal for anything from online auctions to virtual communities, and show a lot of automated system ad software the org is using, and I don't think that they're still using manual verification for all counts in email...This is some sort of phishing.

 

Yea totally a phishing website it would talk a real goofball to fall for it too

 

Don't revert on such mails..yahoo will never ask such stupid questions...you may also check the domain name yahoo-inc.com of sender.

 

Which email service u r using ??
if its GMAIL then it will show u that its fake mail or the actual ..

 

for me its a surely phishing, bcoz if that was yahoo, the Dear "User" must be in your name, for you to be safe, ignore that email and inform yahoo for confirmation..

 

Report the email to yahoo so they can warn other users of a possible phishing scam

 

Thanks for all your responses. I already do believe that it was a fake email but I post it here just to be sure.
How can I report it to Yahoo!? Is there an email where I can forward it?

 

I tried to search for a link to report such instances to Yahoo...and I was directed to this page

Report phishing to yahoo

The page had an email address to forward the phishing email to and it was


Yahoo does seem to use yahoo-inc.com!!!!

Regards,

RightMan

 

definately phishing, i also got alot of email like this, beaware of hackers

 

I don't think Yahoo even asks for your DOB when you sign up ... trash it.

 

Of course it is phising, it is coming from yahoo-inc and not yahoo.com if it even were legit.

Trash it.

 

I use the netcraft tool bar it shows if a sites phishing site or not usualy
and you can also report phishing sites to them..

i use netcraft tool bar alot..

that emails phishy man they (yahoo) dont ask for your password, they are yahoo they already have your password

 

Even I am aware that such e-mails are usually fraud but what confuses me is that it is coming from , while the official address to report such phishing is !

Regards,

RightMan

 

I have contacted Yahoo! for this matter. And they have said that this is definitely a phishing email.

 

What a joke Yahoo Webmaster take this from database manually !!!

This is phising Ki!! it ....

Nothing to worry my friends........ just place it in junk ....

 

yes i also agree with it

 

Lol how can you even thought that this is not phising ? It is so obviously

 

RightMan, the sender of the email can be faked, you can actually use any email you want in the From: filed, if your SMTP server accepts it (most likely it's an open relay that allows a third party to relay e-mail messages, i.e., sending and/or receiving e-mail that is not for or from a local user.)

You, as the party receiving the email, can check using a mechanism for verifying both the domain of each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent. For example, Yahoo Mail does this using DomainKeys.

So, if you don't fully trust your email provider, don't take for granted the sender of the email is legit!