Yahoo wants my credit card

I am 58 years old and I've had an email address with yahoo for ofer 3 years now.

When I tried to log in today I got the following message:
"Hi ,
You need your parent or guardian's permission to use Yahoo!. Please find mom or dad and show them this screen."


Then they have a note for parents with the usual BS , but including the following paragraph:

If you're setting up a Family Account for the first time, we'll need a major credit card for age verification. You will not be charged!

So that´s it, they want my credit card number.

Well, yes I lost all the mails that were sent to me but I wont give mi credit card to yahoo
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What do you think?

 

Mom or Dad? lol. I don't think this is true.

- Prilep

 

Yeah I doubt it too. How would yahoo know if your mommy and daddy are sitting there?

 

may be you gone on any fake page...

 

yeah and now you can send an email with the user as anything, for example i could send you one from or something...it all has to do with freaky hacking coding

 

I am also thinking that.

I haven't heard/faced these type of problems

some thing is fishy somewhere. not sure.

have you tried on any other machines or more than once?

 

If your email address is important to you, I suggest you go ahead and contact Yahoo customer support. I did when my 2001 email address went down after I changed my password and forgot it overnight.. I was contacted by real people, not just automated emails, and my problem got solved pretty quickly.

I wouldn't give them my credit cart either. That is of course if they really asked you for it and you didn't lend up on an email phishing page that has stolen your details.

 

To CliveRay:

Tanks for your suggestion but they don't have any customer support address or phone y their pages.http://forums.digitalpoint.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

 

DO NOT give them your credit card number.

This is most likely a PHISHING scam.

why would yahoo need your credit card for an EMAIL?

Clear your cookies and history, cache and go directly to the link http://www.yahoo.com.

Also run a virus scan.

 

Might not be a phishing page but a valid Yahoo one.
Take a look here, they mention credit cards on it, ant it's a valid yahoo page: https://edit.yahoo.com/forgot?login=&intl=us&done=http://mail.yahoo.com&src=ym

Will look for the support email address or webfort I used to contact them through. Their system has changed since the day I had the login issue. Hopefully they still offer email support to Yahoo users..

 

hmm well that is still strange i still dont see any valid reason for needing a credit card.....and for your original message why would Yahoo say "go get your mom and dad" that sounds totally unprofessional to me I think if it was Yahoo they would say something like "you must be at least 18" or "you will need a parent or guardian" not mom and dad lol

The page does look valid but perhaps someone is using a redirect with domain masking........

 

Beware just because it is on a domain it can still be a phishing scam, evil people have been known to use cross-site scripting to upload their own phishing files on reputable domains such as PayPal.

 

AOL asks for your CC number to change a password now, and Yahoo asks for CC numbers when signing up for free fantasy football leagues "for age verification", so it may be legit. I don't like it either but that may be the way things are going to be.

 

Hi jochimin,
Yahoo does helps everyone. I wont say much .. here's a Case which describes how Yahoo CustomerCare helped a Yahoo user to recovery his account which was taken by a Spammer We have provided full support to rojoloco1982 to get his account back. If you think you need help just post a question on the YahooFanClubforums and you'll have the answers.

 

Look at the qource of that page, i can see some fishy urls inthere.... think this is a scam.

 

Nope, not phishy.
That's just normal for yahoo to build unreadable, unmemorable, all-redirecting url's like those.
They are all over their website if you check their home page for instance. Besides, I quoted that url above directly from http://mail.yahoo.com (see the Forget your ID or password? link) so I suppose it is the least we can trust from Yahoo, can't we?

I think they are making a mistake here, I don't personally feel confortable playing with my credit card for purposes of that kind, anyone does?

 

don't give your cc number to them.but i m not getting any proper reason,
why they want your credit card number.and why they asked for mom and dad.i haven't heard like this problem ago.

 

I've never heard of this and I use Yahoo's services daily. hold on to your credit card number...sound real phishy

 

IF you try to register under age of 11 then it ask you this but he said he is 58 and it's 3 years old account so not sure why it show him that..

 

Very strange, that they want your credit card!