I've had a mail from Yahoo to state that Classic Yahoo is closing 24.1.14 and I need to upgrade in order to retain all my mails, contacts etc.
Is anyone else using Yahoo mail? Is this a scam or for real?
Signed
Concerned of Leyland :worried:
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Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 24, 2014, 03:50:56 PM
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Thanks very much, Alan :sweat:
Am now getting a message stating
There is a problem with this site's Security Certificate.
The Security Certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.
Any other Yahoo Mail users getting this please :confused1: :worried:
Mines OK, sounds like another scam >:(
Roger
Quote from: newportnobby on March 01, 2014, 05:16:56 PM
Am now getting a message stating
There is a problem with this site's Security Certificate.
The Security Certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.
Any other Yahoo Mail users getting this please :confused1: :worried:
Certificates are issued to websites by name. Getting a wrong address could indicate several things varying between an indication of something bad on your machine (unlikely) to incompetence at the other end (probably more likely)
If you ask the web browser to show the problem certificate it should tell you what site the certificate is actually for. See if its something silly like yahoo.co.uk v yahoo.com or is odder.
Alan
I stopped using my Yahoo quite a few months ago but when I just tried, I got in without any problems ;)
I think Im right in saying that Yahoo.co.uk is moving its servers etc from the mainland to northern Ireland some when soon so anything might happen till they get that all sorted out :hmmm:
Deleted the link in my Favourites, Googled Yahoo Mail, logged on, saved the link again and all seems fine.
:thankyousign:
I don't know about the situation in the UK, but I am totally over Yahoo mail, which I have been with for 10 years.
They have gone over to this "conversation" type of format as on smartphones, and it is just a pain.
I wake up in the morning and it tells me I have 19876 emails, when most of them I have already read and are tagged onto the last one.
This is extremely frustrating when it comes to the NGF, as when I check that email, their is a link which, when I click on it, turns out to be my own last entry!
The worst thing of all is when a mate of mine sends me a joke I find funny and want to forward it to other friends, when I click "Forward", it doesn't just send the recent joke, but the whole "conversation" of the last few days or so.
Mail used to be listed in screenfuls, now it's the whole shabang all the way to the bottom.
There was nowt wrong with the old setup.
I hate the new format, and am going to make a swap to something better, soon.
Yours, disgruntled Yafoo user.
Latest nonsense which is starting to make me think of abandoning Yahoo... as of today I am getting an ad email at the top of my list which I cannot get rid of, and seems to be sponsored by Yahoo. :veryangry:
The problem of course is, all the messing around you would have to do advising friends and companies of your change of email.... :veryangry:
George
The sole purpose in life for these types of services (if you can call it that) is to sell advertising.
It is the same with search engines, although some are worse than others.
Kind regards
Geoff
Thanks, Geoff, most of the time I can (and do) live with all of the advertising, but the annoying thing about this that has appeared is that there seems to be no way that I can find to delete the thing.
It has happened on the Yahoo groups as well and that is why a lot of people have left the Yahoo group system, think they are shooting themselves in the foot.
You get what you pay for, Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail or its offshoots - gifts to spammers, adverts etc; no substitute for a proper ISP email, I was with AOL for some years then switched to ntlworld, part of virgin media, no ads, very little spam, average less than one a day, probably about 3 or 4 a week, viagra or phishing.
I get very few spam emails to my Yahoo or Hotmail accounts - certainly no more than to a proper ISP address.
If you use Firefox as your web browser there are several ad-blocking add-ons that get rid of the anoying advertising email.
Happy modelling.
Steven B.
I've had my Hotmail.com address since 1996/1997, and I hardly get any spam. In the early days of the internet when everyone's personal websites had Guestbooks I plastered my email address all over the web......sadly they're still there. ::) Still, I only get about 5 spam emails a day from it, but about 60 from my NGF emails a day.....which is only 4 years old!!! :no:
Yea.. way to go, Boss!
However, Steven B. - I use Firefox and will look at this. Thanks for the tip! I am very wary of clicking on add-ons, but if you want to send details via pm, I'd appreciate it!
George
I have a few different accounts and I've found that the spam seems to be dropping off. Having said that, I keep getting mails from various friends saying they are stuck in Kiev without any money, please send £2000 to....
If you use a mail program, rather than web mail, your spam filters can catch most of them. I use Outlook on my PC or the inbuilt reader on my iPad.
I thought that I was immune to this sort of stuff (pretend naivety), but my credit card account got hacked at the end of last month and (thankfully small) transactions were made on it.
So please, all forum members, be aware!
George