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Legit from yahoo?

14 years ago

Received this in my yahoo mail:

Verify this email address

You recently added a new email address to your Yahoo! account, or initiated verification of an existing email address. To verify that you own this email address, simply click on the link below.

Verifying your email address ensures that you can securely retrieve your account information if your password is lost or stolen. You must verify your email address before you can use it on Yahoo! services that require an email address.

For your security, please keep your email address information up-to-date. If this information changes, you can always update it by signing in to your Yahoo! account and changing it from the "My Account" area.

Verify "****@yahoo.com"

If you can't click the sign in button, you can verify your email address by cutting and pasting (or typing) the following address into your browser:

https://edit.yahoo.com/commchannel/verify?.intl=us&p=GtYXuNqGJQp1_U4d8fOB1oOtOWvHFWArwSkP0G8HDyLnV841GYeygcxqg9tRcjBLdpGTN4GOFTwimvraSzLY46G

Not your account?

Your email address was added to the Yahoo! ID: aa****. If this Yahoo! ID does not belong to you, or you did not recently add your email address to this Yahoo! ID, you may permanently stop receiving messages for this Yahoo! ID at this email address. Please let us know.

When I click the Verify button, a page comes up stating:

Oops, looks like you're logged into another account.

To complete the verification, you need to sign out from your current account ****@yahoo.com and sign into aa****@yahoo.com. Click on the "Sign Out & Continue" button to continue with the verification process.

(I'm not logged into any other account)

I don't want to do anything to screw up my mail.

Jean

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Comments (6)

ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
is the new email address account one that you indeed did create or that you are associated with? if not then follow the second set of instructions.

many times you are logged in automatically to yahoo when you return which is why it will see you as logged on with one account and tell you to log out and start over to log into the second account.
if the new account is not yours I would do as they suggest and let them know it may be someone trying to gain access to your account by linking it to this new account.
jean_mi_z5
Original Author
14 years ago
Not logged into any other yahoo account. The account that they want me to verify is the one I'm logged into and have had it for years.

"You recently added a new email address to your Yahoo! account, or initiated verification of an existing email address.

I haven't done any of things.

Jean
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owbist
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I certainly would not click any button on that email. Right click on the header then click to view the full header and look for any unusual address listed.

Raven has a valid point in notifying Yahoo - but not by clicking in that message of course.
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
14 years ago
It looks like from the link below that it is a scam, and you shouldn't click on the links.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: Verify this email address
jean_mi_z5
Original Author
14 years ago
There is a key icon above the sender and when I put my mouse pointer over it, it says "This sender is DomainKeys verified." Whatever that means.

I have changed my password just in case.

Thanks

Jean
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
agree never click on links in an email that you are not sure of, that is why I said I would go with the contact yahoo.
and definitely I should have said do not contact them through the email but directly from your actual email client account at yahoo.

No idea if this one is a scam or not but just in case I would report it to Yahoo. And make sure you always use a very strong password that is not an actual word but is comprised of letters and characters in a non-sense method.
Your email account should have one of the very strongest passwords you can create because think of all the info that goes through our email!
The Ultimate Guide for Creating Strong Passwords
How To Create Strong PasswordsÂAnd Remember Them

looking at the full headers from any email will give you a lot of info on where it originates from and the path it took

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