suspicious email

[ucatchtrout]

Got this email....supposedly from yahoo, threatening to shut down my email if i don't send them the info they demand. Their address is not a yahoo address...

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Yahoo Warning!!! Verify Your Account Now To Avoid It Closed ( VX2G99AAJ )
Friday, July 10, 2009 6:34 AM
From:
"aderepg@mail.telepac.pt" <aderepg@mail.telepac.pt>
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To:
undisclosed-recipients
Yahoo!!! Unused Account Removal Confirm Your Account

This Email is from Yahoo! Customer Care and we are sending it to every Yahoo!
Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestion's due to the
anonymous registration of Yahoo! accounts so we are shutting down some Yahoo!
accounts and your account was among those to be deleted.We are sending you this
email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this
account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the
space below. Your User name,Password,Date Of Birth (DOB) and your Country
information would be needed to verify your account.

Due to the congestion in all Yahoo! users and removal of all unused Yahoo!
Accounts, Yahoo! would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to
confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking
the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 72 hours for
security reasons.

* User name: ..............................

* Password: ................................

* Date of Birth: ............................

* Country Or Territory: ................

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this
request. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks
of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

What should I do?

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

ignore it.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

Its a spoof email, definitely ignore it and block

 

[alex42083]

Well.. the email address originates from Portugal. WTF does your date of birth have to do with your email accounts. Ignore it.

 

[huevonkiller]

Yeah it looks bogus.

 

[Lost One]

"This Email is from Yahoo! Customer Care and we are sending it to every Yahoo!
Email User Accounts Owner for safety."

I didn't get one.

BS

 

[Minstrel]

My mom got the same thing on her Hotmail account a week ago and e-mailed me to ask what she should do about it. I told her to ignore it, it's pretty clearly phishing.

With the abundance of phishing scams out there, no legitimate company like Yahoo or Hotmail would request information so informally to prevent an active account from being shut down.

 

[maxiep]

It looks totally legit to me. However, they accidentally forgot to ask for your social security and your credit card numbers with the expiration dates, so make sure to include those too.

 

[crandc]

I reported a few weeks ago a suspicious email allegedly from an attorney who represented me once.

When getting a suspicious email, a good rule is, instead of reply or clicking on links, go direct to the company's email or phone and contact them. This is about 99.9999999999% possibility fake.