{"id":330,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'Shut-Down-Your-Yahoo'-Phishing-Scam-Email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shut Down Your Yahoo&#8217; Phishing Scam Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmail purporting to be from Yahoo claims that you \u00a0recently initiated an action to \u00a0shut down your Yahoo account and you should click a &#8216;Cancel Request&#8217; link if you do not want the account closed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe email is not from Yahoo. It is a phishing \u00a0scam designed to steal your Yahoo login details so that your account can be hijacked and \u00a0used to launch spam and scam campaigns in your name.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Subject: Yahoo Mail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Secure Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Dear [email address removed],You Recently Initiated an Action on your Yahoo account to Shut down your Yahoo , Did you initiate this Action? If No, Kindly Cancel Request below by clicking the Cancel Request icon below log on to your account and your account will be automatically restored to it&#8217;s normal Yahoo! settings. This will enable you enjoy better Yahoo Mail Service.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel Request<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for choosing Yahoo.<br \/>\nRegards,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to this email, which claims to be from Yahoo Secure Mail, you recently initiated an action to shut down your Yahoo account. The email advises that, if you did not initiate the supposed shut down action, you should click a &#8216;Cancel Request&#8217; link to restore your account to its normal Yahoo settings.<\/p>\n<p>However, the email is not from Yahoo and no account shut down action has been initiated. The email is just a crude <a title=\"Phishing Scams - Anti-Phishing Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/phisher-scams.html\">phishing scam<\/a> designed to steal your Yahoo account login details. The scammers hope that at least a few recipients will click the cancel link in the mistaken belief that they must do so to save their account.<\/p>\n<p>If you do click the link, you will be taken to a fraudulent webpage that has \u00a0been built to emulate a genuine Yahoo login. A form on the page asks you to enter your email address and account password and click a button labelled \u00a0&#8216;Sign in to Cancel Request&#8221;.  \u00a0After \u00a0signing in on the fake page, you will be automatically \u00a0redirected to the genuine \u00a0Yahoo France website.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the scammers can collect the login details you entered and use them to hijack your Yahoo account. Once they have \u00a0gained access to your account, they can use it to send out spam and scam emails in your name.<\/p>\n<p>Email phishing scams like this one are <a title=\"Yahoo Account Confirmation Phishing Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/yahoo-account-confirmation-phishing-scam\/\">very common<\/a>. Be very wary of any email that claims that you must click a link or open an attached file to rectify a supposed account problem. It is always safer to login to all of your online accounts by entering the address into your browser&#8217;s address bar or via an official app.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo provides information about <a title=\"Report spam, hacked accounts, and phishing scams to Yahoo\" href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/SLN3402.html\">reporting such scams<\/a> on its help website.<\/p>\n<p>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"452\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-scam-email\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"st-george-website-changes-phishing-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-452\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1.jpg\" alt=\"Phishing Scam\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/st-george-website-changes-phishing-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: June 8, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: June 8, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"Report spam, hacked accounts, and phishing scams to Yahoo\" href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/SLN3402.html\">Report spam, hacked accounts, and phishing scams to Yahoo<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Yahoo Account Confirmation Phishing Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/yahoo-account-confirmation-phishing-scam\/\">Yahoo Account Confirmation Phishing Scam<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Phishing Scams - Anti-Phishing Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/phisher-scams.html\">Phishing Scams &#8211; Anti-Phishing Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/shut-down-your-yahoo-phishing-scam-email\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/shut-down-your-yahoo-phishing-scam-email\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Email purporting to be from Yahoo claims that you \u00a0recently initiated an action to \u00a0shut down your Yahoo account and you should click a &#8216;Cancel Request&#8217; link if you do not want the account closed. Brief Analysis: The email is not from Yahoo. It is a phishing \u00a0scam designed to steal your Yahoo login [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}