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Is this a legitimate email from AT&T Yahoo Mail, or is it a scam or hoax?
I received this Message in my inbox:
We are asking all users to upgrade to our newer version service, due to fixing some errors and security info malfunctioning.Starting from 18/09/2018 you will no longer have access to sign-in into your Yahoo account if no action is taken.
| UPGRADE TO NEW VERSION |
To confirm if your account is already upgraded before please, click here. And fill
Nοte: We the Administrator will be notify if you ignore this new version upgrade ,and we will be forced to de-activate your account.
Sincerely,
Account Service Support.©2018
Account Service Support.©2018
THIS MESSAGE ABOVE WAS SENT TO ME FROM THIS EMAIL ADDRESS: wlwangsf@sbcglobal.net
IS IT A LEGITIMATE MESSAGE?
Thank you,
Carol
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_xyzzy_
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6 years ago
Definitely phishing. Those links are to yahooupgrade.pekku.com which obviously isn't att nor yahoo.com. Also notice how they notate the date with the day before the month which is not US style. Trash it.
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KnoxChurch
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margaretmcallister
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4 years ago
I received a similar email today, 9/30/20, and don't know that it's legit. It's from Customer Support and titled "NOTICE!!"
Dear AT&T & Yahoo User,
The Classic version of your Mail will be replaced by our new version on 30 (Sept) 2020. Sot it's time to upgrade, before you lose your email access.
It includes a "Log-in Restore" button
Hate to click it but I also don't want to lose email access.
HELP!
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ATTHelp
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4 years ago
Hello @margaretmcallister,
Let’s discuss that email,
We have not had any recent changes in email systems and when we do we are sure to give plenty of notice sometimes even a full year of notices.
One telltale sign of illegitimate emails is the email appearing to be last minute and cause a sense of urgency.
We hope this helps @margaretmcallister, please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
@KaneB, AT&T Community Specialist
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RonBryzon
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3 years ago
Received an Email from Yahoo Support for me to verify my account within 24 hours or loose access. When clicking onto the 'link' it asks me to Verify my account by signing into 'Yahoo' - I am already signed into Yahoo in order to read the Email. Must be a scam...
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morph27
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@RonBryzon do not follow links. If an email sounds threatening (eg: we will disable your account if you don't do this!!!), delete the email. If you click the link, you're confirming that your email address is live and you're the type who likes to click anything. They will spam/phish you more. The best way is to try reading the email header and delete it if the header shows that it is not coming from where it says it's from.
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