Urgent help needed for yahoo mail?

100% scam.

That is a scammer trying to hi-jack your email address to spam all your contacts and then use the account to spam hundreds/thousands of others.

Yahoo and all email companies, all banks and all companies in the entire world will NEVER ask for your password, pin or date of birth. No Exceptions Ever.

Ignore and delete that email and any others demanding such information.

If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of needing your password, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money, email address or identity to a scammer.

If you google "yahoo email phishing scam", "email hijacked viagara porn spammer" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.

In fact, if you check out the section here at Yahoo Answers entitled "Yahoo email, spam and bulk mail" you will find hundreds of questions from victims who have had their email address hi-jacked or spoofed by scammers sending out porn and viagra spam.

I was tricked in similar manner back in September 2007 and I lost my ID and pw to the hacker. I had to really struggle hard to get back my account. The hackers deleted some thousands of my mails before I could get back my account. I suggest you contact Yahoo! asap. Let me share my mail to Yahoo! that I wrote on September 10, 2007:

Dear Madams / Sirs,

Subject: My Yahoo! ID <slsmhu@yahoo.com> got hijacked by hackers.

I lost both of my IDs: a) Yahoo! ID <********> and b) MSN <**********> Accounts when I got the following e-mail that was a trick by the hacker which I wrongly responded:

Quote: Your new requested Yahoo! password. Please reset your password now.

from: "my-yahoo-register@yahoo-inc.com" hide details Sep 4 (3 days ago)

reply-to: my-yahoo-register@yahoo-inc.com,

Yahoo! Member Services

to: mhu1954@hotmail.com,

date Sep 4, 2007 6:20 PM

subject Your new requested Yahoo! password. Please reset your password now.

mailed-by returns.bulk.yahoo.com

You recently requested a new password to sign in to your Yahoo! account.

Your new password is: sing230shoe271

Un-quote.

Hope above helps you know what you have already done and how to get out of the trouble.

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN...

Read this so you know how to tell a real email from Yahoo

This is from a hacker trying to break into your acct

The log in page, is a look alike page and you will give your info to the hacker

You verified your acct when you logged in

Why worriying?create a new account

this is not from yahoo.

its fake a scam, delete it do not reply.