Someone us using my yahoo mail fraudently and claiming money.?

1. Check that the alternate e-mail address/mobile phone number is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, then change it! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Check the 'Reply To:' address as well ...

Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make them unique and long, strong ones with mixed characters! Go to "Update password-reset info" to change your Secret Questions and Answers ...

*** Changing your password also deletes the cookie which apparently inserts that sly trojan address grabber ... ***

If you used this password for other accounts, change them too - make every one different. Make the password much longer than 8 characters, with mixed symbols ...

Usually, this is all you need to do, although mail will still be sent in the name of the old account for a short while ...

Read both these articles for other steps to take ...

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=c...

http://ask-leo.com/what_is_the_security_related_in...

For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/

If you still can’t access your account after going through the “Forgot Your Password” process, you may contact the Customer Care team for assistance. Click Help on the mail page, then Customer Care, then Live Chat - it make take a while, but a human answers! (If the page loads slowly, refresh it, or click the F5 key.) You will be asked several questions to verify that you are the owner of the account ...

2. *** If spam mail was sent to any of your contacts, apologize, and notify all your contacts NOT to open short e-mails, especially those with no subject, and definitely not to click any links. Warn them to change their passwords and scan for malware too, just in case. Set up an alternate 'alias' account to use instead. This allows you to use a different address for sending, but still keep all saved mails and contacts and the first address active too for incoming mail. Your friends can trust this new address! There is a choice of address in an arrow in the From: box ...

http://edit.yahoo..com/config/list_alias (alternate address)

3. Just to be very sure your computer is not infected, run both an anti-virus and spyware/malware scans, updated and separately - even more than one malware scan, or Trend Micro's Housecall for an online a-v scan.

If you cannot download to your own machine, download and save on a clean computer, and transfer the executable file to a flash drive to use for your own ...

*** in 'Safe Mode with Networking' is the only truly effective method - click F8 repeatedly when the screen first lights on boot-up, then arrow keys and Enter to navigate. ***

Re-boot into Safe Mode for each separate scan ...

These are the best free anti-malware programs for cleaning infections, and can be installed without conflict with other security programs ...

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_...

http://www.superantispyware.com/

P.S. You included not only your e-mail address, but your full name and address too! Scammers and hackers have programs that crawl the web looking for this information for identity theft and fraud - BEWARE ...

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Hey, I woke up today to know that my email address has sent emails to some of my "recently sent email addresses".

I tried to investigate on my own, and couldnt make sense that how come it could be work of a virus.

1) The 'Recently login activity' section on my yahoo acount is showing that only I have (IP address) ever logged in.

2) The full header of the spam mail is showing that the email was sent from 'Tehran - Iran'.

3) The hacker/ etc was able to know that which email addresses were in my 'Sent mail box section'.

4) The 'Sent Spam mail' was also added to my 'Sent Mail box'.

:::: Now how come this could happen ?

If there is a virus on my machine, then how the sent IP address is from Iran, and how come the

login history/ time is not recorded in 'Yahoo recent login activity'? Doesnt make sense from a software point of view.

The Virus/ or security compromise seems more towards the Yahoo servers/ services it self.

There are scam-busting sites that have online databases of the names scammers use, their email addresses, the stock copy/paste scam emails, phone numbers and stolen pictures. You could start your search and ask at one of those sites.

Your account got compromised. First change your password. Account help.http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/acct/in%E2%80%A6 for just about anything to do with your account. Then run anti Virus and Anti Spyware. Should be fine then.