Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Yahoo users who have received email messages like the one below, asking them to upgrade their accounts or else they will lose them, are asked to delete the same email messages. This is because the emails are phishing scams being sent by cybercriminals to trick Yahoo users into visiting a fake website that will steal their account usernames and passwords.
Subject: Newest version of your emailDate: On Thursday, November 2, 2017, 3:57 PM,From: Yahoo! <notify-alerts@cc.yahoo-inc.com>AT&T YahooDear,The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on 3rd November 2017. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access.Log-in RestoreProtecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses against the threats targeting our Financial Institution.Thanks for choosing Yahoo! Inc.®
Subject: Newest version of your email
Date: On Thursday, November 2, 2017, 3:57 PM,
From: Yahoo! <notify-alerts@cc.yahoo-inc.com>
AT&T Yahoo
Dear,
The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on 3rd November 2017. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access.
Log-in Restore
Protecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses against the threats targeting our Financial Institution.
Thanks for choosing Yahoo! Inc.®
Remember, never click on a link to sign into your Yahoo account, always go directly to https://mail.yahoo.com and sign-in from there instead. Once you have signed in, you will be notified of an upgrade or important changes if there are any.
For Yahoo users who have already been tricked, they may attempt to change their passwords immediately before their accounts are hijacked and used fraudulently. If their accounts have already been hijacked, they may click here for help regaining access to them.
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"From: YAHOO Date: July 8, 2019 at 8:48:37 AM PDTSubject: Last warning!!!Reply-To: YAHOO AT&T Yahoo The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on 8th,July 2019 So it's time to upgrade before you lose your email access. CLICK HEREProtecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen the threats targeting our Financial Institution.Thanks for choosingYahoo inc"Here is another scam.
Here is another scam:"sent:AT&T YahooDear User, The Classic version of your mail will be replaced by our new version on 23 May, 2019. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access. CLICK HEREProtecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen the threats targeting our Financial Institution.2019 AT&T Intellectual Property. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service Privacy Policy HelpAT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property."
Unfortunately, I clicked on one of the mentioned links and it changed the configuration of my mail. I quickly changed my password, but now most of NEW mail goes directly into a new folder titled (Archive). Anyone know how to resolve this issue?
Here is another scam:"From: AT&T Yahoo Mail Date: July 10, 2018 at 6:24:26 PM PDTSubject: Re-Validate Your MailboxReply-To: AT&T Yahoo Mail AT&T Yahoo Dear User, The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on July 10 2018. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access. CLICK HEREProtecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses against the threats targeting our Financial Institution.Thanks for choosing AT&T Mail."
Received this:"FRONTIER-YAHOO MAILDear User, The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on 17, October 2018. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access. CLICK HEREProtecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen the threats targeting our Financial Institution.Thanks for choosingFrontier-Yahoo Mail."
I have received two of these emails to-date. So pleased I did not click on the link, knew this was a scam! But for others, it does look very authentic, maybe yahoo could put a warning on their page, so when people log into their account's they will see it.My latest email said that I would not be able to get access to my mail after the 10th June, if I did not click on the link and up-grade.This is worrying!
Here is another scam:"Date: On Friday, March 16, 2018, 12:24 PMFrom: Yahoo Mail AT&T YahooDear User, The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on the 18 March 2018. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access. Log-in RestoreProtecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses against the threats targeting our Financial Institution.Thanks for choosing Yahoo! Inc.®"
Here is another scam:"From: "no-reply-cc.yahoo-inc.com" Date: 7 March 2018 at 09:21:37 GMTSubject: The Classic version of Yahoo! MailReply-To: noreply-yahoo.co.ukDear, The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on 8th of March 2018. So it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access. Log-in Restore Protecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses against the threats targeting our Financial Institution.Thanks for choosing Yahoo! Inc.®"
Here is another scam:From: Account team wrote:Subject: Urgent: Security AlertYAHOO!Dear user,The deadline for updating all E-mail account is TodayWe are doing this to serve you better and to help you fight malicious users. Click here Note: Your account will be closed if not updated before the end of today Sincerely, Yahoo! Mail TeamPrivacy Policy