Beware of "Yahoo Suspicious Alert" Phishing Scam

Sample of the "Yahoo Suspicious Alert" Phishing Scam

From: "Yahoo!" <kjbunny1953@northeastern.edu>

Date: June 21, 2017 at 5:46:28 PM PDT

Subject: Suspicious Alert!

Yahoo!MAIL

You're advise to switch to the new version to avoid disconnection.

Start Now!

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

For assistance, log in to your email! website and choose the "Help" link on any page.

Customer Service Email ID # 1009.

c 2017!, Inc. All rights reserved.

Yahoo users who have already been tricked by the same phishing email messages are asked to change their passwords before their accounts are hijacked and used fraudulently by cyber criminals. Yahoo users whose accounts have already been hijacked can go to https://login.yahoo.com/ and click the "Trouble Signing in?" link to recover their accounts.

To protect against phishing scams, Yahoo users should never click on a link to sign into their accounts, they should instead go directly to https://login.yahoo.com/ or use the Yahoo mobile app. Once users have signed into their accounts they will be notified of changes, requests, or updates if there is any.

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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