Why should Yahoo.com not try as much as possible to protect its site from scam?
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it is not Yahoo, it is your email. You must have good sense to keep from getting scammed. It sounds like your number has been stolen, you need to cancel that card. You have to tell Yahoo if your email is a spam, and they will delete it. Anytime you get an email wanting to give you money, you should thouroly check it out, the scammers thrive by having people jump on it instead of checking, and Yahoo will not give you 500.00, bet on it
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With those free services they offer (Web Hosting, Email account, Search engine, etc), they get tons of traffic through their servers. From this huge traffic, most supplier/producer/seller decide that Yahoo!, Google, etc is good place to trust their internet advertising. \n\nAnother way is some people decided free email account is not enough that they then open a premium account. same goes with the web hosting service. At first (free) customer think free is good enough, but then they realize that it's too slow and decide to pay to remove the banners, etc.\n\nBanners are another source of money. also with those informations (finance, weather, etc) makes lots more people depend on internet to get (almost) realtime news, which in the end increases traffic.\n\nTraffic=good advertising opportunity=sponsors
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i think Yahoo is a big brand name and its not that easy to establish a brand pull on the net where u have n number of choices. Freebies dont matter what matters is yahoo has been here for so long now so it has a distinct advantage in terms on loyalty and awareness
153261
I wouldn't trust someone whose website is a Yahoo! Group. If you're looking for something cheap, try eBay.
562546
An act of God might do it. It's nearly impossible - not just Yahoo but all email providers. Don't waste your time, unless you are being harassed or something and then you can contact authorities and Yahoo.
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I am very experienced with Internet businesses, as I run a couple of Internet businesses, I buy and sell on eBay and I have some customers who have large internet sales businesses.\n\nYahoo answers will not let me publish my web address, but if you write me at yahoo mail, I will be happy to give you any information I can about how to be successful on the web and how to keep from being scammed.\n\n-- Mark
281592
You may need to adjust your security settings. Yahoo may restrict some of the sites you are trying to access.
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the obvious thing is don't force people, re; redirects, to a site because that only turns them off to anything you may be selling. if they arrive at the site naturally, ie; on their own, your product has a chance. \nAnd only then does it have a chance.
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99.99999% are all scams, so i would even be careful about any supposed sites that are posted in answer to your question.
616147
yahoo does tend to be a tight wad sometime i agree. some of the questions i think should be removed are not though so i don't understand them.
23489
I'd be apprehensive going to some "other" sites, especially one that mentions "Warez" and suchlike.\n\nWhy not go direct to YAHOO's site, or 1 of these other reputable ones: http://del.icio.us/Eagle_Kiwi/webbased
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If you read the *fine print that’s usually on the page it explains why, the words are there to make sure that it is actually a human signing up for the account, and not a machine, the words usually have some picture or something though them, that is created by an algorithm that is supposable "totally undistinguishable" by today’s computer systems, so the company doesn’t waste time, resources, as well as money on a computer, that could possibly belong to a hacker, or a company tiring to make a quick buck.
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Probably not that they would advertise here.\n\nThink about it ... millions of users across the globe ... all seeking a quick fix ...\n\nHow many questions have you seen posted that asked things like, "I am stydng Engich at university.  Iam ameirca bourne and razed. send me 2000 iowa dolars and so i can schol to go.?"\n\nIf your company was the #2 (or whatever) search engine in the world, would you specifically make that known or quietly look and listen and seek out (through back channels) those institutions and/or students who really needed the help ?\n\nSomething tells me that Yahoo does quite a bit for the community, maybe not enough ... it's subjective.  I can certainly understand why they don't make that kind of thing too well known though.\n\nWhat might be a good tactic ... look around not at Yahoo, but at the colleges and universities that do well in the subjects such as IT, Communications, etc. in and around the region where Yahoo has it's headquarters.  People live there, they work there and support their schools.  They have somewhat of a common interest.\n\nYou might very well find something "related to" Yahoo, but it probably won't become clear until you're in the final running for it !   ;-)
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See, I think you are onto something here. I've been trying to figure out what this is all about. Why would Yahoo waste their time, energy, and money on this, when they aren't getting anything out of it? I mean, I would expect to at least see some ads, sponsers, links, etc.\n\nThere is a conspiracy here somewhere...
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If you are getting threating emails from a yahoo provider and have proof, you can go to http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_abuse and fill out the information.  Then Yahoo will act accordenly.\n\nHope this helps.
210885
I think thats a scam, I doubt yahoo would be shutting down
285564
you have the high security settings or maybe your firewall is preventing you from doing it. also you ,may be also you have disabled cookies or have added yahoo.com in the restricted sites zone . also check if a spyware or virus has intruded ur system.