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Rvn
Lv 5
Rvn asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

I think someone is using my Yahoo!?

I keep getting e-mails that I've answered a best question. But I have not even been on Yahoo! Answers in months, and I do not recognize the question as something old that I once answered. How can this be possible? No one has access to my computer. Why would anyone hack in or whatever just to answer questions? It's too weird.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Click on your avatar, scroll down and you will see a list of your answers. Then, click on the "Best Answer" link near the top of that list. This will display all of your "Best Answers". Check through there and see if you now recognize them as your answers. Best Answers can come from questions that are months old that have only now finally gotten out of tie-breaker mode. So they could still be your answers from long ago that you have forgotten. If they are NOT your answers, but are showing in your list, then somewhere along the line, someone got onto your YA account. This can happen if you leave your computer (and your YA account) signed in but walk away from it at work, for example, or at a library. Someone might slip in and use it without you knowing it.

    Also, there is a link in the email that is sent to you that will take you directly to the question you got Best Answer for. Click it and look at the answer posted there -- is it YOUR profile that is showing as the person that gave the answer? If not, then there is some type of "glitch" happening and you can let the YA team know about it you want to.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sometimes questions are in tiebreaker for a long time and then a few months later someone will break that tie. Try changing your yahoo password and see if it helps. Either that or someone is trying to help you out.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    convinced they do. So does my agency and a lot of my consumers. I even tell new associates about Y!A and that i tell them my Y!A-person-call! i'm not in the slightest degree ashamed of my participation at Y!A. as a question of reality, i'm quite pleased with it. I discovered, earlier, that one could by no skill put up something on the information superhighway which could reason embarrassment, so i do not I get excitement from answering questions and that i have gained large solutions to my personal questions.

  • Missy
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I have no idea why someone would go on your account just to help others with various problems via the internet, but if you think someone else is using your account for ANY reason, the first step is to always change your password. Change it weekly, or daily if you can.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Why complain, you get best answers!

  • dude
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    why do you complain you got best answers

    thanks

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