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how do i contact yahoo.com about e mail hackers?
04-08-2014, 08:08 PM
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how do i contact yahoo.com about e mail hackers?
I own a small successful company and I have a email address weaverconstruction2000@yahoo.com
last night a hacker posing as me contacated one of my customers asking for money to be wired to them for a loan ????

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04-08-2014, 08:10 PM
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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 if you responded, you gave your details right to the scammer

Change your password immediately
Then Fill out a Mail Restore form ASAP https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN2552.h...sions=true you only have a few days to restore lost mail
Fill out a Contacts Restore http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contact...store.html

Also do all of the following to protect your privacy and identity
- http://help.yahoo.com/l/qe/snova/mail/ym...g-001.html -- turn off Pop and forwarding to make sure your emails are not all being forwarded to the hacker’s address
- make sure the alternate email address is still yours and you have a security question and answer set
- until you get your Contacts back find some other way to reach them - Facebook, twitter, text, etc -- to inform them that your account was hacked and not to send money
- 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, etc) 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

Your best bet is to get a completely new email address and let all of your clients know that you have been hacked and will not longer be using the old account. Unfortunately now that hackers have your address, they are going to keep targeting you with spam and scams like you received

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