Yahoo Account Issues
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Apparently I am not the only one having problems with my Yahoo Account. Figured i'd change the thread title so we can all come here and try and help one another out, when Yahoo tech support is less than helpful.
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So... my email has been hacked, and all of my contacts have been getting these wonderful emails from "me" with links to god only knows what. When I tried to change my password with Yahoo, in the account management and settings page, i enter my user name and password, it says I do not exist. I am signed into my email right now, and I most certainly do exist.
Just wondering if anyone has had this problem, and what you did to fix it. My email is, i believe, linked to my internet at home, so I cant just close it out...yet. Not to mention that this is the only email address I have had for my entire life, so just about EVERYTHING (fan clubs, credit cards, etc) is linked to it and closing the account would be my last resort.
Im trying to avoid a phone call to at&t...They're usually less than helpful.
Hope someone here can help, and if your one of the many people getting spam emails from me, my apologies. (Ten Club....sorry :? )
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So... my email has been hacked, and all of my contacts have been getting these wonderful emails from "me" with links to god only knows what. When I tried to change my password with Yahoo, in the account management and settings page, i enter my user name and password, it says I do not exist. I am signed into my email right now, and I most certainly do exist.
Just wondering if anyone has had this problem, and what you did to fix it. My email is, i believe, linked to my internet at home, so I cant just close it out...yet. Not to mention that this is the only email address I have had for my entire life, so just about EVERYTHING (fan clubs, credit cards, etc) is linked to it and closing the account would be my last resort.
Im trying to avoid a phone call to at&t...They're usually less than helpful.
Hope someone here can help, and if your one of the many people getting spam emails from me, my apologies. (Ten Club....sorry :? )
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How come at&t would be your point of contact? Because they're your internet provider?
Maybe try Yahoo first. Contacting at&t might be like contacting Ford Motors because some groceries you transported in your car fell over. Ford has nothing to with it.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/homepage/homepage/forms_index.html
Thanks. I only got so far with Yahoo. When it tells me that my username/password are incorrect, it told me to contact my ISP.
This is so frustrating! I wish it would just stop, but Im afraid this is only the beginning, as the first bogus email went out just last night.
maybe this will help; all i use is yahoo as well and it happened to me a few years ago...good luck
A helpful soul! Let us know if this worked… It's probably going to happen to me tomorrow…
What I get when I go thru that, and put in my email addy:
idk how I dont exist if im currently logged in.
bad week for me to be dealing with this...making christmas cookies and wrapping presents and all :evil:
in the meantime, maybe the jerkoff hacker will pay my credit card bill that was just emailed to me
Can you call Yahoo? I think that's what I did years ago when I had a problem with my AOL account.
I did run malwarebytes the morning after it all started, so i know the computer is free of viruses and malware.
call yahoo...and if you did, how did it work out for you? just spent 5 unsuccessful minutes trying to find yahoo's number for you...maybe i should google it
i see 1 mail unread at my inbox but when i clik ,cant see that unread,i saw was a mail from the forum,,notification for pm..
when i clik inbox,,says try again nad again....
the rest working ok,,sent mails,saved,files..etc..,..no pro,,but inbox cant open..only if i refresh ones,,after that i can read only one mail..then again need to refresh to see inbox mails..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
go when i open it...after what ever i do,sent a mail,see mails,go outbox,files,cant get back to inbox,need to f5 the page only ...and there is always that one unread at inbox,that cant see in the inbox..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
thats wierd D. Sounds like an entirely different problem than mine. Do you have people in your inbox getting fake emails from you? I did at one point get to where they asked me to answer my secret question..which I thought I had never set up either. Come to find out I had...must have done when I initially set up my dsl account or something (and I was able to hassle AT&T for a "hint" when I called).
Yahoo has been quite glitchy lately. New updates to the calendar on a regular basis really seem to screw everything up. And every once in a while it wont let me get into my inbox - it will ask if i want to revert to the old "mail classic" or "try again". I always click "try again" and it always lets me in
So, after much inner thought, I was able to FINALLY change my password.
And I hope the spam emails stop coming from my account.
In an effort to make a long story short -
AT&T bridged my current email with the email address initially assigned to my dsl account.
The email addy initially assinged was in my mom's name, because I couldnt get the acct in my own name when I first signed up - was too young and didnt have a credit card. (that was like 12 yrs ago!)
So I recently moved, and asked if they could just take my current email addy (which has been my primary email for my entire life) and replace the old one on the account, so I didnt have to keep referring to this old email addy and password anytime i have to re-boot my modem or have problems w/ my dsl account. Well, they f'd up, didnt delete the original one, and instead added my current email as a sub account - hence why I was unable to log in - I was logging into the wrong acct.
So, I'll eventually have to make a phone call to AT&T to straighten this out, but until then at least I know how to change my password!
now i get an 999 error..and cant have access to inbox and all folders....i logt in the acount but cant open anything..
\atleast i forward all mails for 2012 tour,to a hotmail acount
so i know the flights,hotel and etc..im searching the web for solution,i mail yahoo as well..
shit..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
We rely so much on technology these days, and sometimes that can prove to me a major issue!
Im wondering tho, Dimi...do you get that 999 error every day? every time you try to log in? That does happen here sometimes (we use the Yahoo calendars at my work) and I have gotten the 999 error a few times, and usually within an hour or a few, you are finally able to log in. Almost like the Yahoo servers are just having problems in general. But if its a prolonged problem.... Sounds like the issue has to be on their end.
do they speak Greekglish?
i try to move important mails to hotmail now..but this 999 keeps up after send 2-3 mails..so will take years...
lets see if they answer me..
i wonder if ill habve pro if i change mail to 10c with the tix,we bought for prague and berlin 2 cos need to have the same mail o=r something with paypal..and can u change mail at paypal??
shit...all this is a shit...all bookings are there..if a flight cancel or change or a hotel booking,im fucked and cant see it..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
you can change your email with both, i am sure. not sure what the process is with 10c - probably just a matter of going into your acct settings and making the change. Paypal maybe a little harder with security questions and such. I know I have gone into mine in the past, cuz I have gotten numerous fake emails from paypal telling me my acct was hacked, or changed...just baiting me for info....so I just go to paypal every once in a while and go thru my info - make sure nothing has changed in terms of my personal info and contact info.
As far as the phone number for yahoo goes. There must be different numbers depending on what country you are in. I know I found an 800 number for use in USA and Canada. The link for that may actually be in this thread. Let me look into this more and see if I can find a number for you.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
check this out...
from: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/forms_index.html
I have Yahoo! Mail, and am not having the problems you are...but maybe by doing the upgrade to the newer version of Yahoo Mail would fix your problem? Otherwise, from the sounds of that, they arent going to respond to emails or provide support on the older versions of mail. You can search the yahoo help sections, which I assume is where you started and was unsuccessful...
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/
im useless
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
well, if you already did the upgrade, then at least they should respond to your emails. i was thinking maybe you were in an older version (i didnt even know there was an upgrade available till i just found that). im always sketchy about doing upgrades to programs as soon as they come out. there are always glitches in the beginning. (**cough, cough, itunes, cough**)
and i am equally as useless. all speculation here....
i search in google and saw that there are some sneaky ways to get back to old yahoo..ill try it to see if will work beter..lets see..wtf is that shit..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
This may help Dimi http://www.all-nettools.com/forum/showt ... -Error-999
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i did a trick i find here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fKrj9K_Ks
and i got back the old yahoo mail..works fine at the moment..i hope stays to all pc..cos i did it not in my house....works fine now..no pro to see inbox..etc
only issue..is this one mail to the inbox..says one mail..but when i open inbox isnt there...
lets see what going on with that..
thanks all for the help
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
Thanks for sharing that D. I havent switched to the newest version of mail yet, and probably wont anytime soon, since it seems there are many complaints. but if I do make the switch and have to go back, I'll be referring to this!
Hopefully all your problems are fixed now too
all work well,ok no fancy aplications,but im ok
and the only left is still this one inbox i cant see..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
assuming you have a smart phone...have you tried checking your mail from your phone?
maybe you can get to it from there.
just a thought.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”