A new Yahoo scam email is going around again. It’s actually a recycled scam email but with a little variation. Instead of asking for your password and other details about you, this time it will prompt you to click a link.
The message of the email is written like this:
Hello,
Due to the anonymous registration of Yahoo! So we are shutting down some Yahoo Account!!! If you are still interested please verify your account.
CLICK HERE TO VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNTWe apologize for the inconvenience.We look forward to helping you!Sincerely,Yahoo! Customer Care
At a quick glance, the email and the link seems authentic but if you follow closely where the link “CLICK HERE TO VERIFY YOUR ACCOUNT” is pointing at (http://ronny-raw.com/wp-includes/js/crop/yahoo/index.html) you can easily find out it’s not from Yahoo. It will direct you to another site. If you are a WordPress user, I’m pretty sure you’ll be familiar with the structure of the URL.
Clicking the link won’t do you any harm. It will bring you to a Yahoo Mail look-a-like page.
Here’s how it looks like:
Yahoo Mail Look-a-like- Login Page
You may notice the copyright sign is not even updated. How pathetic, it is dated year 2009. Also, the new Yahoo mail sign-in page has an option for Facebook or Google ID, just like below:
Yahoo Mail Authentic Login Page
True enough, when I tried to open the page http://ronny-raw.com/wp-includes/js/crop/yahoo/index.html, my browser prompted me right away the domain is reported as a phishing site.
I know the email is a bit transparent already that it’s a scam email but there are still other people who will probably fall on this trap.
What will you do if you received such an email?
- Do not ever click or reply on it. It is never a policy of Yahoo to ask for your password.
- Report the mail as a scam by clicking on the Scam button on top and block the sender.
- In case, you’ve clicked or filled-up the information, I highly suggest you to login to your account immediately and change your password right away.
- Be an educated user, simply delete and ignore emails from people you don’t know.
- Keep Spamguard turned on on your Yahoo mail.
Scam and phishing sites are already part of our online life. There are greedy people out there who wants to take personal information from you (email accounts, credit card information, etc.) in whatever way they can. Unfortunately, most of them are using illegal means. All we have to do is be careful, always be on guard and stay safer online.
Woah scary naman ng mga scammers na yan! >< Must be more careful sa net!
Thank you very much for this warning. I’ll keep this is mind when using Yahoo! services.
Thank you for the reminder .This is so alarming ,some scammerS are trying to pish us and for sure some were victims already.
Very practical advise. I agree that reporting scam emails can help Yahoo better in improving its filtering system. Hope more folks will be familiar on how to spot scam type of emails.
I have received a lot of scam emails like this supposedly from yahoo and my account had been compromised once so it has become a habit for me to auto delete notifications like this coz I figured if yahoo would like to verify your account they wouldn’t do it by sending you email but direct you to their security page once you’ve signed in.:)
There’s another one: I was surprised to find in my inbox “WARNING” as the subject, and it says: Click Here (link)to verify your account Immediately. I clicked the link where it lets you type in your email and password but suddenly i knew it was suspicious. It’s funny because when I hover the mouse to YAHOO,which is the sender, the true email comes out (which is eliasmontoya65@yahoo.com). Haha
I hate spammers big time! Good thing I rarely use my Yahoo account anymore. Thanks for this warning. 🙂
Thanks for educating people on what to do when they receive an email such as this.
Thank you very much for the warning. Good thing I stumbled on your post even before I receive such email.
this is good warning post.i always find this kind of scam modus operandibut good thing i don’t click without reading closely.