Is this legit?

I just got this is my inbox. :shrug:

Dear Yahoo! customer,

Recently, we learned that your Yahoo! account was compromised. Please go to your computer, sign in at www.yahoo.com, and change your password immediately. If you choose not to change your password as soon as possible, please note that you’re putting your account and personal information at risk. For more information go to:

http://help.yahoo.com/password

If you are unable to enter your account, someone may have already changed your password and taken control of your account. In this case, please contact Yahoo! Customer Care immediately via the help form at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/general.html or by calling 1-866-562-7219. A customer care representative will guide you through the account recovery process.

Best regards,

Yahoo!


security@one.yahoo-email.com


Anyone?

NEVER click on a link in an e-mail like that!

I just wondered if anyone had seen this and if they knew if it was legit or not. :)

Ya never know...

I've called before when something weird was happening with my account and an actual human answered the phone and transferred me to another actual human being.

I went ahead and changed my password.

you may have given them access it sounds like, you think?

I only got the warning on one of my yahoo addresses, and it wasn't in the form of an email. It popped up as soon as I logged in. If they needed access I wouldn't think they would have been able to pop something up as soon as I logged in without doing it in email form. I haven't had any problems logging in since then.

If I were you I'd do another unprompted password change, if you can. And many pop-ups are exactly the product of malware. Try to call that number someone else listed on this thread and check to see if it was kosher. I'd be interested to know. I had a Yahoo email not long ago from "PayPal" telling me that there had been evidence of fraudulent use of my account and unless I contacted them (link) they would be cancelling it. I did not. I also got something from "PayPal" in French which clearly was of evil intent because although I am in CAnada my account is emphatically in English. I went to PayPal separately and found everything okay...I really don't use it and the account is restricted anyhow. Plus the Nigerians have been dropping offers on me via Yahoo mail so I'm suspicious of everything there unless I am expecting it already.

I called the number and they said the e-mail address wasn't legit and that I should report it as abuse. :wtf:

"Please go to your computer, sign in at www.yahoo.com, and change your password immediately."

Presumably, if you're reading an e-mail, you're AT your computer. And if they sent it to your Yahoo address, you wouldn't need to follow some other link to sign in. They would just instruct you to change your password.

I think it's bogus... but you could go directly to Yahoo.com and sign in and change your password anyway. just don't click the links they provide.

Yahoo or anyone else you have an account with knows your REAL name not just your user ID.