Posted on 06/21/2021 7:31:37 AM PDT by mistfree
Yahoo has locked my email accounts saying they're out of date. When I follow the link I am asked to give yahoo blanket permission to access everything in my email, mail, contacts, calendar etc. By agreeing, you'll allow Mail and Calendar to access: As copied below: How do I get around this?) HELP I'm a computer illiterate.
Yahoo Contacts Read and write
Yahoo Calendar Read and write
Profiles Read and write
Yahoo Mail Read and write
Yahoo Mail Full access
“BTW I will need your SSN and credit card # to give you the rest of the information.... : )”
I may have been born at night but it wasn’t last night. You first :-)
Please my english is not so good as I am from Nigeria.
Please send money so I can help my cousin the Prince.
they have a free plan that will let you hold up to 500 Mb. Unless you have a lot of image files or videos/music that is quite a bit of text email content. But if you keep it cleaned out it is plenty. Or you can pay a small fee and increase your capacity if you like. :)
Important note... There will be options of how you want your log in to work. I purposely chose the “username password only” option. If I lose my password then that is on me. But I did not want any of their “extra security features” they try to push. But that is up to you how you want to set it up. :)
“If you typed any passwords, you need to change them immediately.”
How do you change your password if you are locked out?
As a sidenote, I received Saturday a text that my debit account had been frozen at a bank I don’t do business with.
He wasn’t locked out, he had clicked on a phishing link that was trying to get him to enter his password so they could hijack his email account and change the passwords to his bank accounts and steal all his money.
If you read further down the thread, when he went directly to Yahoo.com he was able to log in before his account was hijacked and he was indeed locked out.
As a sidenote, I received Saturday a text that my debit account had been frozen at a bank I don’t do business with.
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Oh that sounds bad. But not as bad as being told your car warranty has expired.
Oh The Humanity!
I think you’re simply paying the price for ‘free’ email accounts. If you think free email accounts are free, you’re dreaming.
How ‘bout you say screw Yahoo and get a real email server. FWIW, I have been using Earthlink for years without a single hiccup. $8.95 a month.
One bucket full of wooden nickels is on it’s way, I expect to see that big fat deposit in my account soon. :)
“As a sidenote, I received Saturday a text that my debit account had been frozen at a bank I don’t do business with.
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Oh that sounds bad. But not as bad as being told your car warranty has expired.
Oh The Humanity!”
Not only have I been phished, now I’ve been hijacked! :-)
I love Freepers! They’re always helpful with a healthy dose of humor thrown in.
Thank You All
Mistfree
Nope—the absolute worst is the 36 “this is your LAST CHANCE” notifications.
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