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how to contact yahoo if you don't have an account with them?

planetsplanets Posts: 47,784
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hi can anyone help...i don't have a yahoo account but spam is being sent in my name from multiple yahoo accounts i have been searching for ages trying to contact yahoo to get them to close these accounts but because i don't have an account none of the methods they suggest work. does anyone have an email address i could contact or a best way of dealing with this?
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    user123456789user123456789 Posts: 16,589
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    Yahoo is a global company an your name might not be unique around the world, how can the emails be in your name if you have no account with them?
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    planetsplanets Posts: 47,784
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    anniebrion wrote: »
    Yahoo is a global company an your name might not be unique around the world, how can the emails be in your name if you have no account with them?

    actually it so happens my name is unique.....there are less than 8 people in the world with my surname and none with the same christian name.
    they are being sent to friends of mine and show as coming from me, then when you click details there are several different yahoo addresses on different spam mails
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    user123456789user123456789 Posts: 16,589
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    Think you might have to read up on how spammer forge email addresses ;)

    If you have no account with them then you know the emails are forged, I would report them to spam cop then forget about them.
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    planetsplanets Posts: 47,784
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    anniebrion wrote: »
    Think you might have to read up on how spammer forge email addresses ;)

    If you have no account with them then you know the emails are forged, I would report them to spam cop then forget about them.


    the problem is from searching online i can only report them to yahoo as spam if i have a yahoo account. i don't know what "spam cop" is sorry :(:o
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    user123456789user123456789 Posts: 16,589
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    http://www.spamcop.net/
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    planetsplanets Posts: 47,784
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    anniebrion wrote: »
    http://www.spamcop.net/

    thank you annie much appreciated enjoy your weekend :)
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 142
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    Reporting spam to Yahoo can be done here
    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ymail/spam.html
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    planetsplanets Posts: 47,784
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    Dim-Star wrote: »
    Reporting spam to Yahoo can be done here
    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ymail/spam.html

    thank you Dim-Star appreciate the help :)
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    robertcrowtherrobertcrowther Posts: 262
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    Hi, came across this thread and my thoughts are: Do you have a facebook account? I ask this because there is an app going around facebook at the moment which is doing what you describe and it is using yahoo email addresses.
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