I was THREATHENED by...

@Shavkat (141906)

Philippines

November 5, 2021 10:43pm CST

...Yahoo! I woke up this morning and saw this message from a scammer. I cannot believe that they are sabotaging my account on "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." I am not sure if you are going to click this link as being asked. I guess I am so immune that I cannot feel being threatened by it.

Have you ever received this kind of message?

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@May2k8 (19788)

• Indonesia

6 Nov 21

I never saw that message in my email

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@May2k8 (19788)

• Indonesia

7 Nov 21

@Shavkat but I often get messages canceling purchases on Amazon and it gets really really weird

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

I guess you are lucky that you are not being attacked by these scammers online.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

8 Nov 21

@May2k8 Honestly, I never tried to use Amazon.

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@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

6 Nov 21

No, because I have no Yahoo accounts.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

I assumed that you are using Gmail. I have also an account here, but it is seldom being used by me.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

@LadyDuck That's nice. We only rely on Gmail and yahoo. I sometimes use iCloud

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@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

6 Nov 21

@Shavkat I use the email account hosted on our Swiss provider. I also have a gmail, for less important things.

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@Nawsheen (28761)

• Mauritius

6 Nov 21

I have got similar scam messages regarding PayPal

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@Nawsheen (28761)

• Mauritius

8 Nov 21

@Shavkat No idea how they steal our email addresses. I never share mine

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@Nawsheen (28761)

• Mauritius

8 Nov 21

@cacay1 We should be very careful

@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

These scammers are like working 24 hours and the weird thing is that they knew my email address.

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@Deepizzaguy (122070)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

6 Nov 21

I get those kinds of messages from time to time with these claims.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

It is a sad thing that these evil people are still doing this.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

8 Nov 21

@Deepizzaguy I hope it is not because of being in poverty, which is always the case.

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@Deepizzaguy (122070)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

6 Nov 21

@Shavkat It makes me mad that some people are so cruel these days.

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@AkoPinay (11496)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

I have not received so far. Or maybe I receive without noticing it haha

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

I guess you blocked them already.

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@nela13 (59367)

• Portugal

7 Nov 21

I don't have a yahoo account.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Nov 21

Nice. Are you using Gmail instead?

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

8 Nov 21

@nela13 I also have a Gmail account.

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@nela13 (59367)

• Portugal

7 Nov 21

@Shavkat yes, I use Gmail.

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@GardenGerty (169406)

• United States

6 Nov 21

My warnings are always from PayPal.

@rsa101 (40946)

• Philippines

8 Nov 21

I seldom use Yahoo except for some personal email communications. So far I have not received any email like that and I think that they will not enforce you to have it upgraded.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

9 Nov 21

I agree. I am so vigilant with this matter. I had a big blow for doing this before. It almost hacked my PayPal account. In the nick of time, I was able to change my old passwords to new.

@allknowing (153544)

• India

7 Nov 21

Glad you instantly saw it being a hacker or scammer

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Nov 21

I had a bad experience before and it was a big lesson.

@kaylachan (84703)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

6 Nov 21

Yep. I delete them right away.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

I also do the same thing. I just shared this one to let my message goes across around the globe. It is a way to warn others about it.

@RebeccasFarm (91299)

• United States

6 Nov 21

No I have not

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

It seems that I am special to receive this email.

@wolfgirl569 (135583)

• Marion, Ohio

6 Nov 21

A lot of stuff like that goes to my spam folder. I never check it unless I am looking for an email from a new site

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

I usually tagged this kind of message as spam.

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@db20747 (43419)

• Washington, District Of Columbia

7 Nov 21

These official looking messages get on my nerves. The ones I get say account is deactivated or so on. I can't tell if it's true or not!

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

7 Nov 21

I am sure it is not the legit message. I usually check my account if I cannot log in, then it is being compromised.

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@Rashnag (30597)

• Surat, India

6 Nov 21

No thankfully I haven't received any such mails. These looks so authentic

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

6 Nov 21

If you will check the wordings closely, it is considered a fake one.

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