Yahoo email closing???

RainbowsInTheSpray

To my shame, I still have an old yahoo email account which I continue to use for  e.g. ebay notifications. In the last 24 hrs I've had two messages labelled 'Final Warning' about 'my use' of an 'AT&T/yahoo' account (as if I knew) which implies that access will no longer be available to my email from December... unless I 'upgrade'.

Can anyone tell me what's happening because I'm scratching my head. Is it definitely likely that I'll be excluded from the account? What's implied by any upgrade?

coffeehound

Sounds like phishing -- don't click any links

[Deleted User]

Scam / fake email - phishing for credentials.

Delete and ignore.

Yahoo email is not closing.

https://forums.att.com/conversations/att-internet-email-security/expired-emailclosing-accounts/6149ff97104a3f0cb56ddc58?commentId=614a22dd5ec459702e5ac251

another_casualty

Mmm... A few months ago , I took out a yahoo email account which I use only for my Apple ID as I was having issues with Apple's inability to let me use my gmail acct
So I hope it's not closing .
Have you go onto the yahoo website via your browser ( and not replying to email), to see if there is any info there?

RainbowsInTheSpray

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

another_casualty

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

When I mentioned to my friend ( who is a web designer and knows his stuff etc) that I opened a Yahoo account , he told me that it wasn't the best move .
Scams were mentioned ...

[Deleted User]

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Anybody can set any "name" against an email address, but you need to check the actual email address it came from - it is a common way the scammers work so you need to learn how to read the actual email address rather than the name labelled against it if you are to avoid scammers in the future - this is a serious skill you need to stay safe online so don't ignore this:

Here is a typical one in my spam box that says it comes from ASDA supermarket:



But when I click to check the email address then clearly it is not from Asda.



Check the email address of the one your received and you will find it isn't from Yahoo at all.

Chino

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Just because a couple of spam emails made their way through Yahoo's spam filter? Hardly.

In my experience, Gmail regularly lets spam through, yet I suspect you're wedded to that provider.

RainbowsInTheSpray

[Deleted User] said:

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Anybody can set any "name" against an email address, but you need to check the actual email address it came from - it is a common way the scammers work so you need to learn how to read the actual email address rather than the name labelled against it if you are to avoid scammers in the future - this is a serious skill you need to stay safe online so don't ignore this:

Here is a typical one in my spam box that says it comes from ASDA supermarket:



But when I click to check the email address then clearly it is not from Asda.



Check the email address of the one your received and you will find it isn't from Yahoo at all.

[Deleted User] said:

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Anybody can set any "name" against an email address, but you need to check the actual email address it came from - it is a common way the scammers work so you need to learn how to read the actual email address rather than the name labelled against it if you are to avoid scammers in the future - this is a serious skill you need to stay safe online so don't ignore this:

Here is a typical one in my spam box that says it comes from ASDA supermarket:



But when I click to check the email address then clearly it is not from Asda.



Check the email address of the one your received and you will find it isn't from Yahoo at all.

Yes BUT your email address, to which this was sent, is not 'tallmansix@asda.com' is it????? That is my point.

RainbowsInTheSpray

Chino said:

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Just because a couple of spam emails made their way through Yahoo's spam filter? Hardly.

In my experience, Gmail regularly lets spam through, yet I suspect you're wedded to that provider.

Hardly wedded. But just who, tell me, wants to have to go through the malarkey of having to change email address when they don't have to??? You???

[Deleted User]

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

[Deleted User] said:

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Anybody can set any "name" against an email address, but you need to check the actual email address it came from - it is a common way the scammers work so you need to learn how to read the actual email address rather than the name labelled against it if you are to avoid scammers in the future - this is a serious skill you need to stay safe online so don't ignore this:

Here is a typical one in my spam box that says it comes from ASDA supermarket:



But when I click to check the email address then clearly it is not from Asda.



Check the email address of the one your received and you will find it isn't from Yahoo at all.

[Deleted User] said:

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

Scam was my immediate suspicion but then the thought crept in that these emails were labelled 'message from yahoo'.... and that SURELY yahoo would be alive to any scammers actively using the yahoo name, sent to yahoo addresses...

... all of which just goes to show what a crappy outfit yahoo is, I suppose...

Anybody can set any "name" against an email address, but you need to check the actual email address it came from - it is a common way the scammers work so you need to learn how to read the actual email address rather than the name labelled against it if you are to avoid scammers in the future - this is a serious skill you need to stay safe online so don't ignore this:

Here is a typical one in my spam box that says it comes from ASDA supermarket:



But when I click to check the email address then clearly it is not from Asda.



Check the email address of the one your received and you will find it isn't from Yahoo at all.

Yes BUT your email address, to which this was sent, is not 'tallmansix@asda.com' is it????? That is my point.

Up to you whether you want to argue a point about that but either way you need to be sharper to avoid scammers. 

If you follow the advice in my post you wouldn’t need to come here to ask about a Yahoo account closing and that is a far more important point. 

The names label on an email is nothing of significance in terms of who it came from, I could call myself Yahoo, it might even be my real name but I wouldn’t expect Yahoo to block my emails because of it.