Monthly Archives: November 2008

How Opening Spam Can Kill Your Computer

When you receive spam in your inbox, you have one of three options. You can ignore it and delete it, you can open it and delete it or you can open it and click the option at the bottom of … Continue reading

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Resolved Question: Is there a way to stop explicit emails from coming through?

My bank acct got hacked and they apparently got into my email as well and tried to use my card to get on about 6 different explicit sites, they couldn’t thank god – but now I am getting hundreds of unsolicited emails from them and can not figure out how to stop it – I spam all of them – but it is ridiculous – I would really appreciate any ideas – short of closing this acct and opening a new one.

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Voting Question: Is this email from Yahoo legit?

Yahoo! Account User Re-activation.Friday, November 28, 2008 4:35 AM
From: “Yahoo! Alert” Add sender to Contacts To: aw_memberdirectory@yahoo.com
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Yahoo! Account User Re-activation.

Yahoo! Account User Re-activation
Dear Valued Account User,

This notification is from Yahoo Customer Care and we are sending it to every Yahoo Email User Accounts Owner for safety. We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of yahoo accounts so we are shutting down some yahoo accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. Yahoo! Member Service is sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.

Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts, Yahoo would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons

Yahoo! ID Account Re-activation requirements

Name:___________________________________________
Territory:_________________________________________
D.O.B:___________________________________________
Phone:___________________________________________
User ID:__________________________________________
User Password:___________________________________

These reactivation process is to also stop and detect spam messages control.

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences. Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. To send requirements, please *** REPLY THIS NOTIFICATION E-MAIL *** or send direct email to our member directory at aw_memberdirectory@yahoo.com. Sincerely.
Yahoo! Account Service.
Customer Care

I just received it and Im not too sure if I should follow through, help?

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Voting Question: How do I stop spam texts on my cell phone?

I keep getting spam texts, like a new one every second. They won’t stop coming. All I can do is turn off my phone. I tried texting back stop, but it’s not a full phone number, so it won’t let me text them or something. It’s just like a four digit number, sending me some email address. It’s the same one every time. But the four digit number changes. What can I do?

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Resolved Question: How do i get webproworld to stop emailing me!?

UGH i like signed up for it then cancelled my account and am still getting spam. I pressed unsubscribe and it said to email them to tell them to stop and i did and im still getting stupid emails.
HOW DO I REPORT THEM OR GET THEM TO STOP!
ps- this is for hotmail but they dont have a hotmail answers

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