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d3500ram
Explorer III
Aug 18, 2021

Yahoo scam...?

I received a "notification" in my inbox this morning.
On the surface it looked "legit" but I always scrutinize the email address from which it was sent, such is the case for this...

...the address, which may be difficult to read (as noted by the red arrow below) is "cjgb.co.kr"

If legit, I would think it would be from an @yahoo.com address!

For yahoo users, has anyone received a request to update their password?

  • . . . and just looking at it, I see the 'E' of expire and the 'S' in support are both capitalized. The mark of a scam for sure. Organizations the caliber of Yahoo! would let something like that slip by them prior to sending out an email.
  • Never click on email links. Just use your normal way to get to Yahoo and then click on change password and change it. That way if it needed to be changed you are safe. If it didn't need to be changed; no harm done.
  • Standard Phishing technique.

    It's easy to create an email that looks legitimate. If you click on the link, it will likely ask for your user info including password...then they have access to your account.

    Unless you just requested something (ie: you just ordered an air compressor on amazon and you recieved an email 5 min later from amazon saying here is the info for your air compressor purchase), generally don't click on email links.
    - Preferably go to the website directly from your normal method (not the email link) and from there see if they are asking for the same info.
    - If you really feel the need to click on the link, check the email address (not the name associated which is easy to fake...in the above example it shows "yahoo" but the email has no reference to "yahoo" ). It should reference the website (be careful of endings other than ".com". The above example is ".kr" implying Korea, though that could be faked also and other country codes are often used when the ".com" site is already taken by the legitimate site.).

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