Is it true that our yahoo account will be cancelled if we dont send an email to about 20 people?

Question

I just received an email saying that yahoo needs to verify if account is active, hence i need to forward said email to about 20 people. If i did not send this to about 10 people my account will be cancelled.

Answer 1

nope. That is not true. It's one of the many scams/ hoaxes that have  generaly the puropose of colecting email addresses to they cand send more spam to more people :))

actually you can probably buy 150,000 email addresses with about 100$.

Here are some references:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/identityth...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

Answer 2

Please do not believe all these scams that people try out, the email you received probably contains a virus or something.

You can verify where the email came from by right clicking on properties and viewing the header.

If you are not able to figure it out then post it to somewhere like www.spamcop.net  who will figure it out and even report it to the originating ISP if you require so.

Answer 3

Scam!

Answer 4

Congratulations. You are experiencing an initiation in our society known as "loss of innocence". It's how people learn to distrust what they don't already know.

Spammers often disguise their emails to seem like it comes from a trusted source. They steal people's identities by pretending to be their banks. They promise expensive merchandise for free. Their intention is to get something from you that you wouldn't give if you knew who they were or their real intentions. Now you know. Sorry! Be careful!

Answer 5

thats c**p mail delete it.

Answer 6

LOL! I can't believe you fell for that! That's such a load of c**p!

Answer 7

lmao

Answer 8

no, i had a yahoo account for years which i haven't used up until this week, all i have to do was verify my email address.

Answer 9

NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Answer 10

Its a scam. Don't worry about it. That message has been going around for awhile now and its not true.

Answer 11

That is incorrect. It may not be from Yahoo. verify that first.

Answer 12

If I would get an e-mail like this, I would forward it 20 times back to the sender.

Answer 13

LLOOOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOL....*breathe*....LO...