Has anyone had a yahoo mail account temporarily suspended

[dsc]

for their own protection? That is what mine is claiming.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Nope. Mine works fine. It could be a phishing scheme, so be careful responding.

[dsc]

2. I can't respond that is the whole thing

I can't receive, send, or save email for upto 48 hours. I have never heard of this. I do belong to some adult themed groups but nothing way out there.

[BlooInBloo]

3. You might try sending an email to their help from another addy, and copying...

... the notification you received.

[dsc]

4. I did that a few hours ago and haven't heard back yet

The 'notification' is a blurb across the top (where it tell you you are over quota or other like messages)

[BlooInBloo]

5. That's the best I got, then. Good luck.

[dsc]

8. thanks

guess I will find out in a couple of days.

[Stephanie]

6. I lost a whole account there once.

Never could figure out why or get it back. The only thing I could figure is I'd sent out a "mass" email to about 15 people, all of whom were in my address book and would not have tagged me as spam. Dunno. But I lost the account, mail & address book, and never got an answer from Yahoo.

[dsc]

7. wierd

I haven't done jack in days with it. Guess I will eventually find out.

[Up2Late]

9. I had that happen to mine because I hadn't used it for so long, but I have heard...

...of comedian who was talking about this happening to him on the radio show "Fresh Air." It happen to him when someone sent him an email joking around about terrorism. It took him a while to get it fixed too.

Here's the link: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9283896>

I can't remember how far into the show it is that he talks about it, but I'm listening now to see if I can find it.

Edit: He tells the story at about 7:45 minutes into the show clip.

[nebenaube]

10. actually... mine was hijacked...

I can't find a way to tell yahoo either. Here's the story... a few days ago yahoo messenger pops up a window for a "security update". And the rest is history... I can't log in and it appears I've lost the account. then I get this wonderful email from yahoo via aol(btw, I thought the USA is Oceania ):

> You won £800.000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
> Messenger
>
>YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
>
>CONGRATULATIONS!
>
>YOU WON £800.000!
>
>
>Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the >one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that >you have won a prize money of (Eight Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£800,000) for the >month of May, 2007. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every >month.
>
>YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the >millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people every month as our >winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating >you for been one of the people selected.All participant were selected through a computer >balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, >United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international >promotions program which is conducted annually.
>
>This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
>multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
>citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
>Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in >United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £800,000 will be released >to you from this regional branch office in UK.
>
>We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
>high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
>HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
>
>These are your identification numbers..........
>
> Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
> Lotto number........................Lwh09446
> Winning number...................Lwh09447
>
>To claim your winnings, contact the claims agent with the information below;
>
>Claims Agent;
>Mr. Mr. Simon White
>Email; [e-mail]
>Phone; [phone]
> [phone]
> [phone]
>
>
>You are required to forward him with the following details:
>
>1.FULL NAME
>2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
>3.PRESENT ADDRESS
>4.SEX
>5.DATE OF BIRTH
>6.AGE
>7.OCCUPATION
>8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
>9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
>10.MARITAL STATUS
>11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
>12 THE MONTH YOU WON........................................................
>
>As soon as you contact the Claims Agent, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your >prize money.Congratulations once more!!
>
>For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
>confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
>prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
>double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or >unofficial personnel.
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>
>
>
>Dr WILLIAM GERRI
>LOTTO CO-COORDINATOR.
>The Yahoo.com staff
>Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
>
>
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Anyway, I figured that the "security update" left my system compromised so I reinstalled YIM from the original binary and ran the usual scans...

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. Someone has tried to crack your password. That's usually what happens.

They had too many failed login attempts, and Yahoo locked your account for 48 hours to protect you. Do you visit yahoo message boards or yahoo games, chatrooms or anything like that?

There's always some cyberpunk trying to hack someone somewhere. I know all about it. I've played with the yahoo booters, account lockers, anything you can think of. Every time yahoo came out with a new patch for the booters, it wasn't but a few hours until new booters were coded and on the internet. Just do a google or yahoo search for "yahoo booters" and/or "yahoo account lockers".

Hope this helps,

Ghost

[dsc]

12. thanks

I will do that later today.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Wow! Never happened to me,but when you get it back...

you might want to try something like YPOPS http://ypopsemail.com/ that lets you download Yahoo mail with any POP3 mail program like Outlook or Eudora. The advantage is that you can have all your important email on your machine when you're offline or if Yahoo goes "poof."

You could do this by paying Yahoo $35 a year, too, but this way is free (and legal, so they say) and as foolproof as anything involving email. I've set Eudora up to fetch mail from my three accounts, including Yahoo, and send through whatever server I'm connected to.