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    Yahoo is asking for account information!

    I am trying to log in into my yahoo account, bit cannot. Its asking for account information (other email id, and 2 secret qs.) to recover password in case I forget it. I am not sure if its authentic and I wont loose my account. This has been going on for sometime now, but earlier if I tried after 5 min, I could log in, but not today. Any one had same problem? is it safe.

    Just for info, the link is :

    https://edit.yahoo.com/recovery/upda...0&sig=79074735

    Any info/help appreciated. Thank you.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mercury_element:
    I am trying to log in into my yahoo account, bit cannot. Its asking for account information (other email id, and 2 secret qs.) to recover password in case I forget it. I am not sure if its authentic and I wont loose my account. This has been going on for sometime now, but earlier if I tried after 5 min, I could log in, but not today. Any one had same problem? is it safe.

    Just for info, the link is :

    https://edit.yahoo.com/recovery/upda...0&sig=79074735

    Any info/help appreciated. Thank you.
    not had a problem getting into yahoo.

    that link is useless for others, i.e. when i click on it it would just link directly into my yahoo account.

    have you tried logging onto yahoo using another browser?

    btw the link looks legit.

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    When I clicked on that link just now my Firefox reports a "Reported Web Forgery!". It could be wrongly detecting that but its best to stay away. Try to login from a different computer.


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    I had the same thing happen everytime for almost a mint, but only on one of my accts. It has stopped now though....
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    Quote Originally Posted by carang:
    I had the same thing happen everytime for almost a mint, but only on one of my accts. It has stopped now though....
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    Its happening with both my accounts with yahoo actually. I am really annoyed at this.

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    could login using IE but cannot on firefox.


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    forgot to say, it happened with 3 different laptops and a pc... from two different IP addresses...so dont' know if it is real or not.


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    ok, not its happening in IE also, cannot login into yahoo. Has anyone done it before, giving info that is, and had no problems later logging in?


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    i must admit that i got so damned tired of it happening that i just finally gave in and did it... no problems later, except that i had to do it a couple of times before it stopped appearing. i have 4 different email accounts with yahoo, and i only got the message for one of them...


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