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GeoffG
Lv 7
GeoffG asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 8 years ago

How do I report an abusive email from another Yahoo!Answers user?

Update:

Oklatonola: Mostly I don't allow Y!A email replies, but occasionally I turn my email on so that I can email another users. This time I forgot to turn it off again. This was a pure and simple private email full of obscenities, not related to any particular question or answer I had posted, as far as I could tell. I checked the user's Q&A's, but none were related to astronomy. It came through Y!A's own email system, not through one of my real email accounts, so there was no header information except Yahoo's. I never post my real email address on Y!A, but anybody with half a brain should be able to figure it out, since I leave plenty of clues. Oh well, time to turn of Y!A email again...

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Use this generic form to report an abusive email. Be careful what your choose as options. The following is just an example, because i don't know and I want to know which version of email you se. I respect you for NOT enabling your email. I've DISabled my email to and from other YA community members because of abusive emails.

    Product: Mail

    Mail Classic

    Abuse and spam

    received threats or harassment

    http://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index

    Somewhere copy and paste the FULL header of the email so Customer Care can trace the email back to the email account that sent the abusive email. Click the little "gear" icon at the top of the mail message and select "full header"

    I HAVE reported abusive emails this way for more than three years. It works.

    PLEASE, DISable your email to and from other YA community members. Astronomy & Space is FULL of psychopathic trolls. The ONLY way to stop them is to DISABLE your email to and from other YA community memers IF you know WHICH account is hsending the abusive emails. EMAIL THE ABUSE TEAM. and include the URL address of the YA profile of your harasser in the email to:

    y_answrs_team@yahoo.com

    You are verylikely being mislead, INTENTIONALLY and MALICIOUSLY, in the first answer

    1 Click your avatar to open up your YA profile/activity

    2 Click the “Edit my preferences” hyperlink”

    3 Click the Privacy & communications” tab when it is underlined top open up the tab page

    4 Click the center of the button to the left of “Via email” until it turns WHITE

    5 Click the “Submit” button at the bottom of the tab page

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    When you contact Yahoo have as much documentation as possible, any questions/answers that they have posted that show deception, including all URL’s, a brief description of your complaint and e-mail all the information to this link, y_answrs_team@yahoo.com

  • Gone
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Don't respond to it, simply FORWARD the email to the Y!AT.

    Source(s): It has happened to me.
  • Murzy
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    abuse@yahoo.com

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