Comments on: Scammers, take notice

By: pOty

pOty — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:42:01 +0000

If there’s no Yahoo! Lottery, I think there’s

By: ANOWAR

ANOWAR — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:53:56 +0000

E.A.A.S AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY 2008 I AM WON OF THE EMAIL LOTTERY. WHERE MY LOTTERY CHAKE DRAFT PRISE.

By: ANOWAR

ANOWAR — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:49:59 +0000

JOINED TO YAHOO EMAIL LOOTERY

By: pattyvealey

pattyvealey — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:51:58 +0000

scammers take notice

By: tank

tank — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:18:29 +0000

if i won were is my money

By: jenny bacani

jenny bacani — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:29:39 +0000

thank u

By: SHARON

SHARON — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:50:59 +0000

WHY WITH ALL THE NEW TECHNOLOGY CAN’T WE STOP THESE PEOPLE? I GET SO MUCH DIRTY SPAM & WIN MILLIONS & MILLIONS EVERYDAY AND WE ALL JUST LAUGH! WHY CAN’T SOMETHING BE DONE TO STOP THIS??? I’VE EVEN GOTTEN EMAILS THAT THEIR POSING AS THE FBI AND OUR GOVERNMENT DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE!!!!!!!

By: sudhakar mishra

sudhakar mishra — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:27:26 +0000

how we get secure as emailblogyahoo

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:48:05 +0000

I have given up on YAHOO. I will no longer use their email service, so I will no longer need to set yahoo as my start page, and I will no longer use their search engine.

I’m averaging 12 spam emails a day in my INBOX and the first 3 characters of my email are “c2c”. That isn’t common, it isn’t a name, and I don’t know how it could be associated with anything common. I also don’t post my email in forums, but this is getting rediculous. 1 or 2 a day MAYBE, I’ll click their useless report spam button, but Ive seen emails from the same domain continue to come through.

YAHOO has got a little too big for its britches and customer satisfaction has been left to the wayside. Just imagine how many GIGS of data are abandoned email accounts full of spam.

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:01:30 +0000

http://lottery.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Lottery
(ok…Results)

Anyway, I just wanted to add that “protecting your email address” is no longer a very useful tactic in avoiding spam. Most email addresses these days are gathered from windows computers that have viruses (something like 20-40% of windows machines are compromised) or other security problems. The viruses will go through the email on the computer and in the web cache (for webmail) to scan for email addresses.

So, if you send email to someone who reads it on a computer that is compromised, then your email address will get on spam lists!

By: jonathan

jonathan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:42:11 +0000

yippeeeeeeee

By: William

William — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:43:21 +0000

I just received a mail as below:

FROM: THE DESK OF THE CLAIMS DIRECTOR,YAHOO MSN INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of£500,000.00 Pounds. This email promotion was held on the 30TH ofMAY 2008 in London United Kingdom.

To file for your claims you are to contactour REMMITANCE DIRECTOR for further information.
NAME: MR WEST NEWTON (REMMITANCE DIRECTOR)EMAIL: west_newton12@live.co.ukTell: +44-795-516-7964Fax: +44-870-974-6645

You are hereby advised to provide our claims department with thefollowing information: REF Number, Batch number, Winning Email Address.Thereafter you will directed by your remittance officer on how to claimyour prize. YAHOO MSN PROMOTION is a free service that does not require you toregister or be a Yahoo registered user before winning. You havereceived this message from Yahoo International PROMOTIONS prize deptbecause you have visited one of our sponsored sites and havevoluntarily given your email address to receive mails from theirsponsors. Your email address was selected along side ten lucky winnersaround the world who have there email voluntarily given to receivemails from various site that we sponsor around the world. To View Some Of Our Past Lucky Winner Click: **http://img.timeinc.net/TFK/media/news/2006a/060222_lottery_hor.jpg**http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/09/23/lottery-winners-inside.jpg**http://www.louisianalottery.com/assets/images/newsroom/Lotto%20Winners/CarlosCase2.jpg**http://www.javoue.com/presse/yahoo_javoue.jpg Mrs.Sherrell Barber (Zonal Coordinator)YAHOO MSN PROMOTIONS

I believe is a scam.Please check

By: Hollywood Celebrity

Hollywood Celebrity — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:39:19 +0000

I remember 3 years back i received first mail saying you won Yahoo!Lottery,I actually think its from yahoo only and i wish to pay but i was luck that time i am not using credit card so i not able to pay, soon i get another mail and i realize its fake email they are not yahoo.
most of such Scammers are from Nigeria.
so most of time they just copy website design and log so it look like real yahoo, people those not seen URL will be trapped by such fake email so its very important to see URL of any email as some time they may label URl with yahoo and when someone click it land to other site

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:55:40 +0000

Kirk, your ID “kscott” is so short and sweet that it’s quite likely getting spammed by sequentially generated target adresses (ascott, bscott, cscott, … @yahoo.com). Spammers pump their mails out by the million, not caring whether the address exists or not, and yours happens to exist. Also if you’ve left your Yahoo ID just anywhere publicly, such as your 360° profile or even here in this comment, spammers assume that it has a mail account associated with it and try to target that. And once an adress has been “burned” that way and landed on an adress list, its spam amount likely skyrockets sooner or later with no way back. Standard mechanisms of spam.

And for that matter, Yahoo’s spam filtering does work, and quite well at that. I use one Yahoo ID as a forwarding endpoint from other pre-filtered adresses I have, and what little spam still makes it through my pre-filters, routinely ends up in Yahoo’s Bulk folder. No spam blocker is perfect, but claiming Yahoo’s wouldn’t work is unreal.

By: Libran Lover

Libran Lover — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:49:55 +0000

Yahoo should not blog, not even talk about spam until they provide adequate spam protection to the Yahoo Mail Inbox. What Yahoo has now is TOTALLY USELESS. Yahoo should talk less and do more to protect the Inbox from spam.

By: kscott

kscott — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:46:03 +0000

Mark — you’ve got my back, really?

As someone who has attempted to use Y! Mail from the very beginning, it is clear that Yahoo! hasn’t been able to protect my Inbox from even the most basic attacks.

I just logged in to my Inbox to find 2400 spam messages (Cialis, clean your colon, classmates.com, celebrities, cash confirmation, carnival cruise — and those are just the “C” entries). That’s the Inbox, not the Spam folder.

How do these spam messages continue to get to my inbox?
- I have had SpamGuard active for years.
- I have never publicly posted my email address.
- I have popup blockers active and ignore ads.
- I report spam by clicking your stupid button.

You claim to block billions of msgs, but until Y! restores protection to the basic Y! ID and respect the spam reported by users, your service will continue to accumulate unusable and abandoned email accounts like mine.

I look forward to that day when I can log into a spam-free inbox – that would be blog-worthy.

- kscott