posted on May 10, 2002 09:22:47 AM new
Help! I woke up this morning to find over 100 returned mail items for my Yahoo account. I bought their 25 MB space so I could use it for auctions without running out.
After checking these out I see they are being sent by different user names but are using my email address to send???
I don't know what is going on, but they all involve a prize and I am sure it is a scam that they are using my address somehow to do this. I am getting returns at the rate of 5 a minute and no telling how many are going through!!! What is going on, how can I contact Yahoo -- what do I do????
This is scary!
If Yahoo ever checks this board, please fix this or do something. I just changed my password for the mail but don't know if that will help or not.
Anyone else ever have this happen?
[ edited by lindajean on May 10, 2002 09:23 AM ]
posted on May 10, 2002 08:45:24 PM new
Thanks Sulyn-
I called the number and it did have an option for email, but after waiting on hold for nearly 45 minutes I gave up. About then the bounced emails stopped so maybe I wasn't the only one with the problem. Maybe they fixed it.
If not, I will try again tomorrow. I wrote the number down for future reference and really appreciate it.
posted on May 13, 2002 10:24:55 PM new
use their message boards to see if anyone else is having problems. here's the one for auctions, but there's tons more, just backtrack:
you can use 10-10-220 to call them since it's long distance, then the 1st 20 minutes is only 99 cents. i posted a message on one of the auction boards in the Paydirect section I believe and i got a reply with an even cheaper #. i haven't tried it yet but apparently it's only 40 cents for up to 10 minutes and then 4 cents/min after that
