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by Mike Masnick




Yahoo Emails Smell Fairly Phishy

from the you-would-think-they'd-know-by-now dept

ZaneK writes "According to trimMail's Email Battles, Yahoo Search Marketing is pumping out messages that are actually phishier than those sent by the real phishers who send messages in Yahoo's name. A dissection of Yahoo's apparently legit mail actually yields a pretty comprehensive clinic on how to start an illegal phishing scheme." A year ago, we noted that many banks still sent out phish-like emails, but you would think that a company like Yahoo would have realized not to do this long ago.

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    Sep 27th, 2005 @ 6:47am
  • yahoo

    by Deadeye134

    Every time i go on yahoo to chat search or any thing else it crashes my computers. no mater how good they may be. even the email is over run with spam. in 1 hour i get up to 800 spam emails. its crazy.

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    • Sep 27th, 2005 @ 11:01am
    • Re: yahoo

      by sys4dmin

      try Google... and unix... (or linux)
      If browsing to a certain page crashes ur computers,
      the fault most likely lies in your browser(cache), not with Yahoo.

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    • Jan 21st, 2006 @ 3:38am
    • No Subject Given

      Yahoo! mail servers are also getting too slow, with spammers even exploiting the Yahoogroups which have large number of members to send spam mails.

      Yahoo! needs to buckle up soon!

      (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

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