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Is the "Termination of your yahoo webmail account" email legitimate? Or just spam?

The message is as following:

Dear Staff/Subcribers

TERMINATION OF YOUR YAHOO WEBMAIL ACCOUNT

We are currently carrying out an upgrade on our system due to the fact that

it has come to our notice that one or more of our subscribers are

introducing a very strong virus into our system and it is affecting our

network.We are trying to find out the specific person.

For this reason all subscribers are to provide their USER NAME AND PASSWORD

for us to verify and have them cleared against this virus.

Failure to comply will lead to the termination of your Account in the next

48 hours.

Information to send;

EMAIL ADDRESS:

USERNAME:

PASSWORD:

Hoping to serve you better.

Sincerely,

YAHOO mail Support

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This is an Administrative Message from YAHOO Mail server. It is not

spam. From time to time, YAHOO mail server will send you such messages

in order to communicate important information about your subscription.

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4 Answers

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It is a Scam. Never give out your personal info to any of these places. It is a phishing scam to steal your identity. Yahoo will never ask you for your personal info. Hope this helps!!!

    You can report this fill out the phishing form below.

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/phishing...

    Forward the email to.

    phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They're trying to scam your username and password. What I usually do in a case like this is send them bogus information, like Beavis for a username and kissmy@ss for a password.

  • Lyn G
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yahoo would not ask you for your personal information in an E-mail like that.

    It is a scam to get your personal information and/or money.

    Do not respond to it.

    Report it to yahoo, so they are aware.

    Forward to spam@yahoo.com

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its a scam yahoo verifies user names and passwords over the phone i know this because when i forgot my password i had to call them to reset it and verify my user name and security questions

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