I say it's a scam. I also say if some company wants to close my account that's fine with me. I'll just sign up with their competitor.
Definitely a scam. Providing you with a link and giving you a limited time to respond is a common tactic. Some suspect grammar in that last line as well. Looks like it was written by someone who speaks English as a second language. I would delete it if I were you. Edit: Just re-read it. Bad grammar and punctuation throughout. Can’t imagine a company would put out a mass email without having it proofread.
I guess if the wording and illogic aren't enough to give it away ... the return e-post address ought to! "noor.hospital" I say that's an excellent philosophy
Yes. I agree. The bad grammar really is a 'red flag'. And the return e-post address includes the word 'noor' which is a common Indian name. These days if it's from Nigeria or India (both e-mail and telephone) or a Ukraine woman looking for love ... you can pretty much bet it's a scam.
If you hover your mouse over the links, the internet address of the link will appear on the lower left of your browser screen. If it has nothing to do with yahoo, you can figure it is a scam. Of course, don't click your mouse buttons while doing this. For a practice run to see what I mean, scroll down on this Political Forum page and you will see several links such as "Community" or "Member Casual chat" or "Tweet" etc. Just put your mouse pointer over any of them, and you will see the link address show up in the lower left. So if the email is actually from yahoo, or whoever, the link addresses will be obviously legit. If it is some weirdness with no connection to the yahoo website, it is a scam.
I see what you mean. Hovering over the only link "download" shows Yahoo! Upgrade.html but in the lower left of the browser is dl-mail.ymail.com Thank you. That was really good advice!
NEVER login to anything off an email. For example, the way to know if this is real is to go to Yahoo directly (not from the email) and login in. If it is real, there will be a pop up by Yahoo with the warning. These type emails are sent in mass - so if the "warning" names YOUR bank it is only coincidental as everyone got that same warning. For any account you have with anyone, if the email does not begin with your name you know it's fake. But again, go to the source NOT by the email. If a warning from your bank, go directly to the bank's website and log in. Same for anything. I get probably a dozen fake emails a week - and that is not counting the spam folder.
I once received an email from a bank saying I must sign in and update my info because their files were compromised. Of course they provide a convenient link for me. How did I know it was a scam, because I had no accounts with that bank. Never, never, never, give out any personal info from any phone call made to you or any email you receive.
Today I got an email that had a friends name on it. It asked me if I recognized the person in a picture and it gave a link to click on. First off it wasn't the friends style of writing. Secondly when I studied the email address it wasn't his. Thirdly at the end of the email address was the letters "br". BR is the internet abbreviation for Brazil. My friend lives in Florida. I just deleted the email. If you study a complete email you can detect the scams or viruses.
Wow. I got something very similar a couple of weeks ago from someone who's no longer on my "friends" list. The thing is I don't remember if I replied or not. I don't think I did because it was so off-the-wall asking if I know any one of the three people in a photo who are doing (whatever, I don't remember) in Sweden. As if I know all 10 million inhabitants of my country!
I once got a call from a female saying she worked for my credit card company and there were suspicious charges on my card. She said she needed me to verify the charges but first she wanted to verify who she was talking to. She then asked me for my birth date. I told her she didn't know who I was and I didn't know who she was so I would call the phone number on my credit card. She said that was a good idea and we hung up. I called that number and sure enough there were several fraudulent charges on my card.
I ignore anything not sent by the US Mail and actually most of that. The only thing I ever got any repercussions from was throwing away several jury duty notices I was supposed to return and all that happened was a cop visited and told me they would take my name off the mailing list for Jury Duty if I didn't return them. So I did return them. I rather like Jury Duty. They seldom pick me anyway and it's usually interesting if they do. I've never voted anyone guilty and it always made me feel good that I helped an innocent go free.
Great advice. You should never click on a link in an unsolicited emails. If you get an unsolicited emails with links from any company, especially a bank, brokerage, phone, cable, IRS etc..., and you think it could be legit you should go directly to that company's web page as you normally do and log in as normal. If you do not have a log in for that site call them. This will avoid any type of fake links either phishing for password and login information or going to a website that is trying to scam you pretending to be something else.
Here's a new one that just now came into my e-post address. Amazon. Thing is I have never bought or ordered anything through Amazon in my life.
Below is another example of a scam or virus email I received today. They want you to click on the web address. It ain't from my friend D**** W******** (the * are mine to protect the innocent) because the return email address is ".br" -- that's Brazil and my friend resides in Florida. In fact the email address looks like "sand rat w" -- rat is a good name for the looser who sent to me. From D**** W******* on 9/8/2020 1:07 PM (sandratw@terra.com.br) On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 11:00 AM, D**** W******* wrote: Is there any chance that you know the girls in this picture http://www.t1f1.nicxrntr.com/
Exactly as mine in post # 14. It's such an off-the-wall question that even if a friend of mine actually would think the question is appropriate it wouldn't be formulated in such a dizzy, irrelevant manner.
