Someone has hacked into my yahoo account and is asking persons for 2000.00 , saying I am in the Phillipians?

[Bettye]

What do I need to do to correct this matter

[Molly]

Follow ALL the steps here to secure your hacked account, the hackers may have made many changes.

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en...id=SLN3516

Choose a super strong password, totally different from the old/current one

Try to alert your contacts that you are not in the Philippines and it is not you requesting money, but don't use this account until you have secured it.

[Kittysue]

Change your password immediately
Fill out a Mail Restore form ASAP http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en...id=SLN2552 you only have 7 days to restore lost mail
Fill out a Contacts Restore hhttp://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&id=SLN2160

Also do all of the following to protect your privacy and identity
- until you get your Contacts back find some other way to reach them - Facebook, twitter, text, phone, etc -- to inform them that your account was hacked and that you are not overseas
- if you used your same username and password for ANY other site, you need to immediately change the passwords on ALL of those accounts. Unfortunately 80% of people use the same username and password for everything. Hackers know this and once they know your email login they'll try those same details on Facebook, Paypal, Twitter, Linkedin, Amazon, EBay, every major bank and credit card company, etc to try and hack those accounts as well
- if your emails contained ANY financial information (Paypal receipts, online banking statement, credit card bills, et) you need to IMMEDIATELY inform these institutions. You will have to freeze your bank and credit card accounts and get new account numbers and cards sent to you. Set up a new email address to change your Paypal account. These hackers will go through all of your emails to see if there is anything they can use to steal your money and identity
- also consider filing a fraud alert with the credit bureaus -- read the FTC website http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/fea...tity-theft

You didn't get an email recently that looked like it was from Yahoo asking you to verify or update your account, or that your account had exceeded its limits, or that there was suspcious activity did you? That was not from Yahoo, that was a phishing scam and by responding you gave your details to a scammer. Yahoo will NEVER ask for your password or username in an email or never ask you to click on a link in an email to verify or update your account