Report phishing in Yahoo Mail
Email phishing scams try to get your valuable personal information, such as account numbers and passwords
They often pretend to be legitimate businesses or charities, but send you to fraudulent web sites
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What should I do?
Be careful when you open a suspicious message
This looks like a real business...
...but check whether the sender’s email address is legitimate
A legitimate business won’t threaten you in email
Never click the links in a suspicious message
Some phishing scams try to download malicious software onto your computer
Never download or open an attachment from a suspicious message
Use the Spam menu to report suspicious email to Yahoo
Yahoo Mail moves the phishing messages into your Spam folder
You don’t need to do anything about phishing messages that Yahoo Mail has already put in Spam
Report phishing in other email programs
If you get a phishing message that appears to be from Yahoo when you use another email program, just mark the message as Spam or Junk mail
We’ll get the information to follow up, even though you’re not using Yahoo Mail
If your email program doesn’t have a Spam or Junk mail option:
Get the message’s full header as described here: http://www.haltabuse.org/help/headers/
Submit the header information to Yahoo here: http://tiny.corp.yahoo.com/QjxL4l
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