I received an interesting email today from the "YAHOO online team." I would like to forward it to you. Is th?

Here is a copy of it:


Account Suspension.. Verify Your Account now. Message ID: 484021Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:44 AM


From: "YAHOO Online Team." %26lt;postmaster2147@yahoo.com%26gt;Add sender to Contacts


To: undisclosed-recipients


Dear YAHOO Online Account User,





This Email is from YAHOO Online Customer Care and we are sending it to every YAHOO Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of YAHOO accounts so we are shutting down some YAHOO accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.








Due to the congestion in all YAHOO users and removal of all unused YAHOO Accounts, YAHOO Online would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.








* Username:


* Password:


* Date of Birth:


* Country Or Territory:








After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.





Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after 5 days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.Warning Code: USV64MT1.








YAHOO Online Team.|||This is a known phishing scam attempting to get you to give them all your personal info. It's not from Yahoo, just delete it and ignore it. Good luck and be careful.|||What about it?





Hopefully you didn't comply!|||i get that all the time. ignore it, its a scam!|||I want to know too.|||Scam!!!! That's a phishing email. Don't reply to the message and give out your personal information to total strangers or you'll risk losing your account to them. Remember that Y! doesn't send unsolicited emails to all its users, as the company already has that stored in its well-secured servers.





Go here to report the message to Customer Care: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya…


Choose Password Phishing as the reason for the violation you're reporting on.





Alternatively, you can also forward it to them-unedited and with full headers-at the following address: phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com





After that, get it deleted without delay.|||Link: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/…





No webmail provider will ever ask you to send mail on, or reply with your details to ‘preserve’ your account. The only working way to “prove your account is active” is to log in to that account. Yes, it is that simple. There are systems that track inactive accounts – and delete those after a certain time frame – but they will only send a warning, to the inactive mail and to any known alternative mail addresses.





To put it simply – they already KNOW who you are, and your name, username and password. Otherwise they could not let you log in – if the password were unknown :)





Any mail that claims otherwise, should be treated as either a bad joke, or an attempt at gaining access to your account to send spam.





Never, ever, reply and give out information. Doing so will result in you losing control of your account, and possibly losing the account and its contents completely.