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"Your Yahoo Account has Expired" Phishing Scams
Your Yahoo Account has Expired Phishing Scams

Yahoo users who have received email messages like the one below, which claim that their accounts will have expired and they need to renew, or else their accounts will be closed, should delete the same messages and not follow the instructions in them. This is because the email messages are being sent by cyber criminals to trick Yahoo users into visiting a phishing or fake Yahoo website that steals account credentials (usernames and passwords).

Sample of a "Yahoo Account has Expired" Phishing Scam

From: Yahoo Mail - chejyy@ccu.edu.tw
Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 3:14:38 AM HST
Subject: Email Suspension!

Security Alert ,

Your Yahoo account has expired. You must renew it immediately or your account will be closed

or wouldn't be able to send or receive mail.

click here to renew

Regards

Customers Service.

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.

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