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What about this situation? A grandmother who has barely learned how to use email died in 2012. Her friends are all in their 80s and only send 1 email a year.

What about this situation? A grandmother who has barely learned how to use email died in 2012. Her friends are all in their 80s and only send 1 email a year. Someone new registers the account and then... Then, the Holiday season in 2013 roles around and all of a sudden a new person is receiving emails from another person's friends. At that point, the scams they could pull off would be insanely easy. Additionally: Any sensitive material intended for the original person would instantly be compromised. Yahoo is playing a somewhat dangerous game. The better option would have been to buy a domain name similar to Yahoo.com and use that. [ADDED] Now I'm really mad. I tried logging in and it requires me to send an email to an account I had when I signed up for yahoo 10 years ago to log in because it "doesn't recognize my device". Just like Google there is no way to email them or contact them. Unacceptable. There is no way for me to log in to my account.

jdludlow 13y ago
"doesn't recognize my device" Same here. In this case the device is the same browser I've been logging in with daily. The back-up email is one that hasn't existed for a decade, and the "secret questions" for which I generated random number answers and carefully saved don't match. That's on a mostly throw-away account, so I don't care too much. On a more regularly used account I just checked I was able to log in fine. My email inbox is page upon page of spam that should be easily filtered on their end, but at least I can get in.
o0-0o 13y ago
They did this a few years ago with rocketmail.com and ymail.com
smiddereens 13y ago
So if that old woman died and her phone got disconnected, should her phone number also be taken out of the pool of available numbers?
sagarun 13y ago
You can contact customer care by visiting http://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_ACCT&page=contact http://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_A... choose, Product: Yahoo Account category: Password and signin sub-category: My issue doesn't appear on the list
- wtvanhest 13y ago
  I did that, thanks for posting.
jeffreyg 13y ago
This could also lead to targeted attacks. there are probably a lot of no-longer-used yahoo emails still listed on people's facebook profiles which could possibly be used to pw reset. I don't think it would be a bad idea for facebook to display a notice to people w/ yahoo emails at some point before this come into effect.
hkmurakami 13y ago
didn't they start using @ymail.com a few years ago? have they stopped doing that?

jdludlow 13y ago

"doesn't recognize my device" Same here. In this case the device is the same browser I've been logging in with daily. The back-up email is one that hasn't existed for a decade, and the "secret questions" for which I generated random number answers and carefully saved don't match. That's on a mostly throw-away account, so I don't care too much. On a more regularly used account I just checked I was able to log in fine. My email inbox is page upon page of spam that should be easily filtered on their end, but at least I can get in.

o0-0o 13y ago

They did this a few years ago with rocketmail.com and ymail.com

smiddereens 13y ago

So if that old woman died and her phone got disconnected, should her phone number also be taken out of the pool of available numbers?

sagarun 13y ago

You can contact customer care by visiting http://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_ACCT&page=contact http://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_A... choose, Product: Yahoo Account category: Password and signin sub-category: My issue doesn't appear on the list

wtvanhest 13y ago
I did that, thanks for posting.

jeffreyg 13y ago

This could also lead to targeted attacks. there are probably a lot of no-longer-used yahoo emails still listed on people's facebook profiles which could possibly be used to pw reset. I don't think it would be a bad idea for facebook to display a notice to people w/ yahoo emails at some point before this come into effect.

hkmurakami 13y ago

didn't they start using @ymail.com a few years ago? have they stopped doing that?