Yahoo Advertising Phishing Site

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Just getting this off my chest.

My email is through Yahoo. I only use the web interface to access it. I have been totally happy with both the email and the web interface. But I just found a problem.

As I look at my Inbox list of messages there is a line above the messages, a line that is very similar in appearance to actual messages. It is advertising. More such lines appear now and then if I scroll down. Not intrusive, and I have no problem with them selling some advertising. BUT, then there is THIS one.

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That is not from McAffee. That smelled exactly like almost identical phishing emails that arrive all the time. I clicked on it. My security (not McAfee) stopped it, blocking it as a phishing site. So Yahoo is selling advertising space to phishers.

I wanted to report this to Yahoo. Guess what? You can report email senders easily, but if there is a way to report their own web site I was unable to find it. So I wrote up another phishing source that ended up in my Spam folder today, but in the body I pointed them to their own site. I doubt it will work.

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I kept poking around the Yahoo site. I started to look into what it takes to become an advertiser, but as usual the only way to communicate is to answer their questions. Eventually I cam across their Standard of Business Conduct document. Phishing probably violates some standard or other, wouldn’t you think? In that document I found three email addresses. So I sent an email, copying all three, with all the information about the problem. Who knows, it might even help.

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FWIW, a fake McAfee phishing ad was showing when I checked my mail a moment ago.

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I’ve been putting up with McAfee spam for a couple of months in my EarthLink email account and now McAfee wants to bombard my Yahoo account. Good grief!!! Is anyone going to do anything about this?

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