[kictanet] Fw: YAHOO ACCOUNT VERIFICATION ALERT !!!

[Andrea Bohnstedt]

Phishing - don't EVER reply to something like that. It's a message to steal
your log-in data.

On 22 February 2010 10:17, Cecilia Matanga <cecilia at parliaments.info> wrote:

> I received such an alert months ago, i ignored it... and i still have my
> account !
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, michael Ouma <benomnta at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi listers:
>>
>> are these warnings real and one's required to provide the requested info
>> or i just ignore them?
>>
>> kindly advice.
>>
>>
>> Michael Ouma
>> Journalist
>> Kenya
>> Tel:+254-725-537823
>>
>>
>> "Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path
>> and leave a trail," - Ralph Waldo Emerson
>>
>> --- On *Fri, 2/19/10, YAHOO CENTER <vonweise at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: YAHOO CENTER <vonweise at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: YAHOO ACCOUNT VERIFICATION ALERT !!!
>> To:
>> Date: Friday, February 19, 2010, 8:11 AM
>>
>> *
>> Dear Valued Member,*
>>
>>  *
>> YAHOO ACCOUNT VERIFICATION ALERT !!! (KMM69467VL055834KM)
>> *
>>
>> *Yahoo *Mail has discovered series of illegal attempts on your Yahoo
>> Account from bad Ip Location and will shut your account as it has been
>> flagged as a spam account. You are the thus immediately required to Secure
>> Your Online Access by Manually Filling The Form Below by clicking on the
>> reply-to button on your page, Filling Correct Information Carefully and
>> Sending to Yahoo Alert Center: **
>> **
>>   *Yahoo! ID Card*
>>
>> *Name:*............................. .............................. .
>>
>>  *Yahoo! ID:*............................... .......................
>>
>>  *Yahoo! Mail Address:*.......................... ..........
>>
>>  *Password:*......................... .............................. .
>>
>>    *Member Information*
>>
>> *                                       Gender:*...........................
>> .............................. ....
>>
>>
>>
>> *                                       Birth-date:*........................
>> .............................. ..........
>>
>>
>>
>> *                                       Country:*......................
>> .................................. ............
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> *Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account
>> before few hours of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
>> permanently.*
>> *
>> [image: take the survey]
>> *
>> **
>> **
>> *
>>
>> *
>>    Yahoo! Customer Care
>>
>> *Case number: 8941624*
>> Property: Account Security
>> 2009
>>
>>
>>   [image: Yahoo!]  Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
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