Hello, Anyone know to whom you can report yahoo-hosted phishing sites (or redirects) and get someone who has half a clue? If you try to report the sites to abuse@yahoo.com, or use the online abuse web form, you get a lame message that says 'the email in question did not originate from a Yahoo! mail server' -- or something to that effect. Yahoo has become a real problem because there seems to be no one to report these sites to. I have seen Yahoo-hosted sites up for a week or more because of that... Any ideas? THANKS! Jon Kibler -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer A.S.E.T., Inc. Charleston, SC USA (843) 849-8214 ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.
Anyone know to whom you can report yahoo-hosted phishing sites (or redirects) and get someone who has half a clue?
It would be good if Yahoo would also stop selling ads to fraudulent companies. If you use their email service in Russian http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=ru&.lg=ru then about 90% of the ads that they display are for companies offering to enter you in the U.S. Green Card immigration lottery. However, for the past several years people born in Russia are NOT eligible to enter this lottery which means that Yahoo is raking in the cash by supporting fraud. Given the prevalence of phishing operators in Eastern Europe, one wonders whether there is some connection here, i.e. Yahoo USA probably does not know this is going on because they trust their employees in Eastern Europe to do the right thing, but due to language barriers, management can't really monitor what they are doing. --Michael Dillon
On Wednesday 29 Mar 2006 15:56, you wrote:
Anyone know to whom you can report yahoo-hosted phishing sites (or redirects) and get someone who has half a clue? If you try to report the sites to abuse@yahoo.com, or use the online abuse web form, you get a lame message that says 'the email in question did not originate from a Yahoo! mail server' -- or something to that effect.
On the upside they do have a working abuse account, unlike some other big companies. Reported details of recent abuse of one of our servers to 4 companies via abuse addresses. Appears 2 of those big companies don't have, or won't respond to, "abuse@". Yahoo were one of those that responded. I got replies (I tried twice) asking me for the emails that were sent, when I reported it was being used as a drop box account for other peoples PayPal details. When I checked the email address is still accepting email <sigh>. I was pondering writing an article on why this is making the Internet unusable.
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