Report phishing in Yahoo Mail

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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