My friend keep insisting me to log in always with fake yahoo id into "answers.yahoo" instead of my yahoo Id which I check mails. Is it true most of them do the same thing. He was mentioning the drawbacks of using official yahoo Id in Yahoo Answers!, Can you tell what is it?
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I use my normal yahoo e-mail but use a nickname my friends call me rather than my yahoo ID. Only I see my e-mails, and I can soon block unwanted ones if people become abusive.
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Are you sure you dont see a "If you are not this user, please click here" link?\n\nThere is normally a link that tells you to logoff or signin as a different user. I never saw a website that does not have this link.
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Wish I had an answer as the exact same thing is happening to me.  In my instance it's logging off and  loggong on every few minutes.  Every so often I will the "...you have been loggged into another machine."  Like you I thought my password may have been stolen somehow so I immediately changed my password, but I still experience the same thing.  I have 2 computers and am experiencing similar results on both.  Haven't tried a new ID yet, and haven't had any luck in finding resources, but am still looking.  I have software/hardware firewalls, virus scanners, and all my wireless protocols are encrypted (not with WEP).  This is a recent issue that just started out of the blue after yahoo officially moved all of us to the new mail system.  Oh, and you gotta love those automated responses from yahoo.  If anyone else has run into this and tried other things to try to resolve it or at least narrow it down the info would be helpful.
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I had this same problem from early morning 10-30-06 till late evening 11-01-06. Was unable to get answers from Yahoo! help. Finally I went to Yahoo! e-mail sign in page and reported that I forgot my ID. Found that I couldn't read my e-mail till I changed my password. By 11-01-06 around 8:00pm, at last all was well and I could get into my e-mail again. \n\nYahoo! is having big problems with all the big and crazy changes they're trying to make. Sure wish Yahoo! would learn to leave a good set up alone!!
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If someone truly is using an old account of yours you should be able to give the answer to the secret question you chose when signing up for that account when using the "forgot password" option.  You are going to get yourself into trouble talking about hacking.....\n\nIf you are being honest this Yahoo link should help you:\n\nhttp://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/security/cgi_feedback
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I suggest deleting your account.  Here's a page from Yahoo help they'll help you out.  When you make a new account, use a good strong password.  A strong password consists of numbers and letters that are both lowercase and capitals.  Don't use "Dictionary Passwords" which is a password that is easily found in the dictionary.  If you want to use your Yahoo ID as your password, scramble up the words and include numbers.  Don't use your birthdate.  Here is a link for some example passwords.  Feel free to use them as the passwords will change every time you refresh your browser.
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No your friend's answer may be honest .Many people leave their ID & Pass word as {saved} in Yahoo messenger and this gives others the chance to just click the { Sign In button } and use their ID or not use , but they show as on- line to the messenger's list of contacts if they left the { available} status on and not off.You should also know that anybody's ID & Pass word can be used by it in any computer .This matter has nothing to do with a particular PC but rather with Yahoo server which is accessible from any PC connected to the net like any other server.I dont understand your references to words like { id yahoo} or my boyfriend's messenger?
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This is definitely a hoax.  This is what Yahoo has to say about emails such as this:\nThese "spoof" emails are scams. Your Yahoo! ID and password are your own confidential information. No Yahoo! employee will ever ask you for your password or personal information in an unsolicited phone call or email message. If you are ever asked for your password in an unsolicited manner, or by someone you do not believe to be a representative of Yahoo!, do not share your password with them. \nFor more helpful information on password scams as well as information on how to protect your password, please visit: \n\nhttp://security.yahoo.com/password_scams.html \n\nFor additional information on ways to protect your information online, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center at: \n\nhttp://security.yahoo.com
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Did you know that posters on Yahoo! are not anonymous, and that any law-enforcement officer would have to fill out almost 45 seconds worth of paperwork to get your identity?\n\nI'm quite sure someone will be knocking on your door shortly, young fella!
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I've had my yahoo address for years. I don't want to change it unless I come across some security issue. Sure, I get a ton of spam, but it all goes in the spam bucket and I don't have to deal with it. I have another email at work, but that's just business stuff. I'm comfortable with yahoo and I'd probably have to have a more pressing reason than spam to change my user name. On the other hand, my daughter, who will soon be applying to medical school, realizes that she will have to establish a new more professional sounding user name than the one she created when she was 13. She'll probably keep the old one for her friends. She has a college email account, but needs a portable one that she can use for  professional matters. So that's our story.
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good question mega have asked a similar and can't get a straight answer yet....  Maybe server issue dunno.  You would think Yahoo, in it's brillance, would post a message rather than failed log in standard one.
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Let me try to understand. First you sign-in and then you sign out. The another person enters his login-id and tries to signin but it fails. You have close Yahoo Messenger and then restart to signin?\n\nThats very strange!! Because if you enter the password and user-id clearly it doesnt matter how many people sign-in one after another.\n\nMaybe you should uninstall YM and re-install it. It could be some installation issue...\n\n.:Fishie:.
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It's whatever you login as and then @yahoo.com. Look at the top of your screen where it says Yahoo! Answers. Then it says Welcome, name. That's your login name, add @yahoo.com and that's your email.\n\nCheers :)
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A yahoo ID for? You should already have one if you have a yahoo answers account.
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i guess earlier you had saved your username and password in you and somehow you logged out once so it now asks for your yahoo id, not sure whether this exactly is your problem or something else. if so then please enter your username and password and click on save password so next time whenever u r connected to internet you will be automatically logged in.\n\nin case you have forgotten your yahoo id or password then you can go to mail.yahoo.com and there click on forgot password, there you will rest all help
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(Update following posting of 'Additional Information' by the inquirer)\n\nThis really is a wierd situation. It's hard to tell whether this is a problem with your account, or your computer browser setting.\nTo figure this out, you could do the following: -\n - get a friend to sign in to Yahoo Message Boards using your computer\n\n- Create another account with Yahoo and see if the problem persists.\n\nIf it is the first case, then there's definitely something not quite right with your browser settings. \n\nHope this helps\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nCould give more information on which type of browser you are using, (internet explorer, or Firefox/Mozilla), and if you have enabled Javascript please?\n\n(The commonst cause could be the latter - you haven't enabled javascrpt to run)
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Yes,Bluiis8764,I was online and signed in on Yahoo Personals early this morning, then all of a sudden a message alerted me that my session had expired and I needed to re-login. When I tried to re-login, I got a message that my Yahoo ID and/or Password was "Invalid". I've been trying all day to correct the problem and finally had to re-register with a new ID. All my previous addresses, files, etc. under my previous ID are inaccessible. When I tried to re-register with the old ID I was told I couldn't because it was already in use. That being the case, why can't I sign in with it!!?? Now what do I do??? Can someone please help me???