Phishing Scam - "Complete Your Verification or get Disconnected from Yahoo Mail for Security Reasons"

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Posted: November 23, 2014 2014-11-23T15:47:10
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The email message below "Complete Your Verification or get You have been Disconnected from Yahoo Mail for Security Reasons," is a phishing scam. The email message was not sent by Yahoo.instead, it was sent by cyber-criminals, so do not follow the instructions or click on the links within it. The links in the fake email message will take you to a fake Yahoo Mail website designed to trick you into stealing your Yahoo user name and password.

The Yahoo Mail Phishing Scam

From: Yahoo
Date: 11/23/2014 6:57 AM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: Complete Your Verification.

The benefit for this registration is to eradicate email compromising and also to alert you on phone whenever you have new messages.This service is free so click on the

link below to register your mobile Number,Email address and Password
acct/verification.com/onlinedomain registration

NOTE: This message in very important if found in Junk/Spam folder move to inbox to enable you access our website.

The links in the email message will take you to the following fake and phishing websites:

http://ns3.voljatel .si/~hmbsi/images /verify.acc.php
http://instabus.com/wp-content/themes/ BookYourTravel/vicyahh /ya/yahoo.html

You will then receive the following fake message:

You have been disconnected from Yahoo mail for security reasons. Please sign in again to continue.

You will then be taken to a fake Yahoo sign-in or login page, and if you enter you credentials ( username and password) on the same website, it will be sent to the cyber-criminals behind this phishing scam. Who will use it to hijack your Yahoo account and use it for malicious purposes.

Note: if you are taken to a Yahoo sign-in page (see image below) and asked for your telephone, username and password, it is a scam.

If you were tricked into clicking the link in the fake email message and have entered your phone number, and username and password for your Yahoo account on the fake Yahoo Mail website that you were taken to, please change your Yahoo password immediately.

If you are unable to change your Yahoo password, please click here.

Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their Yahoo potential victims into stealing their username, password, financial or personal information. So, if you receive email messages like the one above, please do not click on the links within them, instead, go to www.yahoo.com and sign into your account from there.

If there is a problem with your account, Yahoo will notify you about the problem after you have signed in.

Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers in email samples on this website may have been impersonated.

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June 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM by an anonymous user from Los Angeles, California, United States
I received an email two days ago asking for my information because there's going to be an upgrade but it doesn't seem right.
They said if I fail to send my info I would be removed from yahoo mail. Can you please verify if it's true or a scam. Thank You
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- June 23, 2015 at 2:29 PM by info
  It is a scam. Yahoo will never send you such message. No email provider needs your information in order to upgrade their servers.
  If you have received a suspicious email message, the best thing to do is go directly to your account and and sign into it.
  If there is a problem or notice, it will be shown to you.
  Remember, never respond to an email with your personal or financial information. And, never click on a link to sign into your account.
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