I dunno if this is legit or not, but I recently bumped into a note from someone claiming that there’s a secret email address at Yahoo.com that lets you sneak into a backdoor and recover any account password for any account on Yahoo. The address was “[[ omitted ]] @yahoo.com” and it sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Oh yeah, it’s far too good to be true and is actually a smart, sneaky social engineering hack where what they actually are going to obtain is your account and your password, which they’ll promptly change.
Here’s a typical message from one of these phishers:
“I got my Yahoo Id hacked and I am not able to use it anymore. I called up yahoo customer care and they r asking me the answer to my secret question which I dont remember now as it was 5 or 6 years ago. I tried one of the tricks on my account just for fun..”
Seems legit, doesn’t it? I’ve also seen these from Gmail and Hotmail too, by the way, so just about any service with a password and lots of potentially naive, trusting users can be a target for these sneaky tricks.
Here are the steps recommended by the phisher:
- Log in to your own yahoo account. Note: Your account must be at least 30 days old for this to work.
- Once you have logged into your own account, compose an e-mail to:
[[ omitted ]]@yahoo.com
This is a mailing address to the Yahoo Staff. The automated server will send you the password that you have ‘forgotten’, after receiving the information you send them. - In the subject line type exactly: password retrieve.
- On the first line of your mail write the email address of the person you want to hacking.
- On the second line type in the e-mail address you are using.
- On the third line type in the password to YOUR email address (your OWN password). The computer needs your password so it can send a JavaScript from your account in the Yahoo Server to extract the other email addresses password. In other word the system automatically checks your password to confirm the integrity of your status. Remember you are sending your password to a machine not a man. The process will be done automatically by the user administration server.
There are sometimes additional steps requested, but that’s the gist of the message, and as you can see, it really boils down to send us your account name and password which is clearly not a good idea!
Let me be clear in case you’re still unsure what I’m saying here: this is a scam, there are no secret email addresses at any of these services that can recover your password, and you should never, ever email your account password to anyone, even if they assure you that they are a part of the corporation!
Follow up note: Some people have told me that they saw this article, skimmed it, saw the email address shown above, and followed the procedures without actually reading that it’s a scam. Please do not do that!! The reason I show a real address is so if people Google that address they’ll find this article that warns them about the scam, not because I am at all involved in this nefarious social engineering scheme.
Sir plz help me i lost my password sir plz give me password plz sir password with me .
Hello dave my name is chrystal and i need help asap of hacking into my own yahoo. Im using my friends email cuz i lost my password and security question. Need job details out of there and my facebook account.
Chrystal_nieto is my email
anthonymastin@yahoo.com is my friends email u send it too
amp 2011 is his password
Please help me its urgent. I pray this is real
i cant open my yahoo id can you plz help me.i format security question and password this is my ID paulvanduyn@yahoo.com
i hope you help me thanks
hi i want to hach my hasband account plzz help me
Can you help me out retrieve my personal security question from yahoo? I tried to send an email but it gives the failure notice…
Hi hello sir
I have forgot my security answer at yahoo mail kerai.kanti@yahoo.com so can’t access my account could you help me please send me an email at kerai.kanti@ymail.com
Hi,
this mail [[ omitted ]]@yahoo.com is invalid.
This message I got, when I tryed send a mail.
“This is an invalid email address:
[[ omitted ]]@yahoo.com
Please use an email address that looks like user@example.com or a nickname or a distribution list name from your Yahoo! contacts.”
I didn’t recover my password, unfortunatelly.
Is there any other adress for this?
Sorry for my bad English.
Thanks…
Hi There,
I need urgent assistance with my sister Yahoo ID thats her work ID and she has forgotten her password and security questions.
We would be grateful if you could help us in recovering the password. As its to important f0r her work.
Please contact me on anjurithakur@gmail.com
Thanks
Hi Dave,
I can’t remember my security question,
my Yahoo Account has been locked
several times as a result of these.
Can you help me?
I await your response.
Thank you.
please retrieve my password my id is somirajput@rocketmail.com
and send password in this email address
somi.rajput@rocketmail.com plz help me
I forgot the answer to my secret question.and my altarnet yahoo id is not working. But my password is right. Plz send send my one time password in my rigester mobile no plz.
Hi Dave,
I can’t remember my security question, my Yahoo Account has been locked several times as a result of these.
Can you help me?
I await your response.
Thank you.
my email id gauravvaishnav43@gmail.com plz send password this email
Hi Dave,
I can’t remember my security question, my Yahoo Account has been locked several times as a result of these.
Can you help me?
I await your response.
Thank you.
I forgot what the answer to my secret question.& my password please help me thank you if you help me send my password to this email address delightofall2012@yahoo.com
I need my account back please I lost my security answer help me
ID oliverdahia@yahoo.in
I forget my yahoo password and my 2 secreat qwastion how can u help pls im waiting
sir, i have forgotten my password,and also answers for security questions as it was given before 4years. how can i retrieve my password ??? plz guide me
Hi,
Yesterday i used my yahoo account but suddenly i found whoever hacked my yahoo account and changed my password and all of my security question. Please help me how do i recover my password and security question? Please send suggestion to binu24m@gmail.com.
Thank you.
My boyfriend forgot his yahoo password and would like to retrieve it but he forgot his secret answers to the questions too…plz help us cuase we have some important emails to read…
pls i want to recover my yahoo password i forget my password and also i forget security Q pls help me Kassahun.mitiku@yahoo.com
please help me retrieve this yahoo password, Oseimens@yahoo.com because i have a lot of information i do not went to loose. i cannot remember the security questions as well, please help me, thanks.
I have changed my password countless times and most recently i forgot it and i cannot access my account.What amazes me now is that i am even failing to recover my account through the secret questions because yahoo keeps telling me to log on day after day.What do i do then?
i forgot my yahoo password and the Secretary answers
what should i do?how would i get my account back?
tell me how can i restore my yahoo password please
Can somebody help, please.
I tried to access my yahoo email account but was prompted to add the mobile number to receive the system verification code. I put my mobile number into that little window and after few moments I received an SMS giving me the code number. But it did not tell me how to use it. Now I want to access my account but it repeats the same question in the staring little window. Many thanks.
hello there,
please can you assist retrieve my password
lordmadedon@yahoo.com
contact me with this email lordmadeprime@yahoo.com
Sir
I need one yahoo i forget password this my yahoo how can i get yahoo i forget all of them info so can you help me this email bdgr12@yahoo.com u can send info this mail, bye take
look, don’t try it if you don’t want to loose you password to another person!
Nonsense this is “SCAM”
a foolish advice and useless opinion.
someone misuse my emailid and change the password. i did not able to change the password. please help me. my email id is rajabhuvana007@yahoo.com
my account has been hack how to get my account??
please help me my yahoo account password was changed by someone whom i suspect to be the one who opened it for me.All the security questions where changed and the alternative email was changed ,please help me because there are some very important informatiom .My account which i cant access any more is andynhamburo@yahoo.com
sir,i have forgotten my password. I tried security question too but i think i used some abbrevation which didn’t remind me now. So i request you to please recover my password.
You can send mail to my brother’s id cool92aditya@gmail.com
I want to retrieve my password as soon as possible
thank u
Good morning dear,
How are you doing. I hope fine?
Please help me recover my brother passward:lordmadedon@yahoo.com
You can get back to me with this email prime_wa@yahoo.com
i need my child email password pleasr help me
would please help me recover my passward. samraahiba@yahoo.com
People still skim the article. I don’t think you could have made it any clearer, but naive people will be naive.
Did anyone on this site asking for help to retrieve a password actually get it?? (and not the idiots that believed the scam, I want to no if its really possible)
Im not going to lie, I want to be naughty but Im harmless…
Dear Dave,
Respectfully,
It is stated that sir my yahoo password no longer give assess to my email. I try to use yahoo password recovery, instead, of them asking of my security question i loose ur secret question please help me because my important data is in this id My old id is muhammadshaheedi@yahoo.com this id i forgot password and secret question and not retrieve the id.
My new id is muhammadshaheedi@ymail.com
Sir i am grateful to you if my solve ur problem
thanks
can you give my password
Dave,
can you help me please with my lost password…
i think somebody is hacking my id.
my email:damian_cristina_02@yahoo.com
i want my yahoo password someone has hacked it
Dear Dave,
Someone hacked my yahoo id password. Now how i can reactivate my yahoo id password.
This is my id and old password
sho691@yahoo.com
sho691@yahoo.com plzzz password this e-
mail
please open this email address richnmilen@yahoo.com
to know hiding secrets.
I’ve forgotten my password n want to recover it.
I purchased Sniperspy but cannot send the module through email because of the file being an executable one. I have read all the ways to change the extension but nothing works. Do you have any suggestions?
required password of neemapant@rocketmail.com id
hello sir my password is forget help me
Please I have been Hacked By Someone and am Now Using a Friends ID to Email You and I really Need your Help Please Cos I have all my Infor and Many Important things In there Please..This is the email address that was been hacked Lenasam48@yahoo.com