Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Although there is a possibility you were ‘hacked’, it is far more likely that your address was compromised by one of the powerful spam bot networks. They have the ability to crack passwords, especially weak ones. They can also ‘spoof’ the addresses in the From: area to make it more likely that they will be opened. Remember all those who use the To: or CC: heading rather than BCC: for addresses? Remember all those who forward e-mails with countless addresses still in them? They open all those addresses to spammers – all it takes is one infected computer down the line somewhere! Spammers have programs just to ‘harvest’ e-mail addresses. Your account has been seriously compromised, and more of this type of letter will keep happening. It may not even be your own computer that was infected. Nonetheless, act promptly!
Yahoo’s advice is to change your password, but there are several more security settings to change than just your password. This Help page has more information, stated clearly, with several links to clarify the steps.http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=cont…
1. FIRST, check that the alternate e-mail address/mobile phone number is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, but then change the alternate address! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Check the ‘Reply To:’ address as well to be sure it is still yours.
Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make the password a long, strong one with mixed characters! Length = Strength for passwords! Start with a sentence and make substitutions with numbers, symbols and punctuation. Go to “Update password-reset info” to change your Secret Questions and Answers. Make sure they are unchangeable, unique, and easy for you to remember. For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/.
See http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/ for more tips on creating a strong password(and what NOT to use)
2. *** If spam mail was sent to any of your contacts, apologize, and notify all your contacts NOT to open short e-mails, especially those with no subject, and definitely not to click any links. Warn them to change their passwords and scan for malware too, just in case. (The limit is 100 addresses per mail, and 200 per hour, but send to far fewer than that in each message, just in case you trigger Yahoo’s spam ‘suspicious activity’ detector.) Set up an alternate ‘alias’ account to use instead. This allows you to use a different address for sending, but still keep all saved mails and contacts and the first address active too for incoming mail. Your friends can trust this new address! There is a choice of address in an arrow in the From: box. Also add a signature to your mail so your friends will be sure the mail is really from you …http://edit.yahoo..com/config/list_alias (alternate address)
3. When the password doesn’t work and the security questions have been changed, go to https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/
After filling in your ID and password as usual, click the proper category of ‘I can’t sign in’ [Account compromised] to send an email with all of the information an agent needs to respond within 12-24 hours, hopefully …
– Give them your identity using your country, and the same alternate email address or mobile phone number and Security Questions and Answers that you provided during registration or the last time you edited. You might also be asked for your birthday, ZIP or postal code at the time you last updated.
Check your alternate e-mail for a response. Sometimes the mail will be found in the Spam folder instead. If you didn’t register an alternate e-mail address or mobile phone number previously, you will be out of luck, and can only use the direct phone line method: Call 866-850-4303 toll-free (Open 7 days a week, 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time) Be prepared for a VERY long wait, even hours …
4. Read the Yahoo Mail Blog entry for December 8th, 2011 for all possible steps, including if you forgot or do not have secret questions and answers …http://www.ymailblog.com/
Answers is a Jungle

I would like to transfer from Yahoo! Mail to Google Mail. However, I know for a fact that I have a number of websites that have affiliations with my email. Meaning, they send me emails, and if I delete my old Yahoo! account, they go bye bye. Is their any application or something of the sort? It would help a lot.

Some of your activity triggered the ‘suspicious activity’ flag on your account temporarily, or else your account is brand new. This scrambled-letter ‘captcha’ code requirement will diapppear after a while.
One thing that helps is to clear the cache and update Flash and Java. You can clear the cache of most browsers quickly by clicking Ctrl + Shift + Delete at the same time. Check that Flash and Java are updated by visiting their sites for the latest version:http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
There are several activities which could cause this message. The most common reason for this message is attempting to send to too many addresses at once. Yahoo’s limits are 100 addresses in total, with only 50 per domain such as @yahoo.com, but Yahoo recommends sending to far fewer than that number at once. There is also a limit on the number of mails sent per hour (200 addresses) and per day (unknown number). Frequently the ‘suspicious activity’ warning occurs for far fewer addresses.
Just in case your password has been cracked and your address is being used to send spam without your knowing …
FIRST, check that the alternate e-mail address/mobile phone number is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, but then change it! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Check the ‘Reply To:’ address as well.
Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make the password a long, strong one with mixed characters! Length = Strength for passwords! Start with a sentence and make substitutions with numbers, symbols and punctuation. Go to “Update password-reset info” to change your Secret Questions and Answers. Make sure they are unchangeable, unique, and easy for you to remember.
For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/.
Answers is a Jungle

What assurances do we have that you actually remove our information and discontinue use or sale of said info?
First off, you can’t even maintain your own information correctly.
This page: (http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/peoplesearch/details.html) is no longer valid.
Other than being a dead page in general because the service is not functional anymore in the manner in which it describes, it points to dead links: The section titled “Practices Regarding Your Ability to Update or Delete Information”, first paragraph, the links titled “Edit/Create” and “Telephone Removal Form”.
This describes to me an ability to delete SOME information (the above referenced “Edit/Create” and “Telephone Removal Form” pages), but not other information completely related to the first set of info (the page I am currently complaining about).
Second off, you have chosen to partner with Intelius. This is like signing myself up for spam and marketing calls. Sure, the internet is a great research tool and a person’s personal information such as location and phone number can be found as easily as crossing the street, but I do not believe Yahoo should sell out its customers and patrons so easily as that.
Intelius should have the right to do their own business, Yahoo should not help them by giving its users info to them (even if the ‘choice’ to opt-out is available, albeit, hidden).
The facts that 1) Yahoo has this partnership and 2) Cannot remove its own defunct web pages in efficiency leaves me to wonder about my own data security.
* Additional info on Yahoo’s stupidity *
I tried posting this question in the help forum, but Yahoo failed, as usual, there. The system could not locate an appropriate forum for me to post in. I was recommended to email Yahoo Customer Care. After filling in the form completely, the bottom of the page asks me to verify my security questions.
I could easily have done this through account info, I’m sure, but the page suggested that I go through the login as if I had lost my password. Of course, since I was already logged in, this triggered a possible Fraud Alert. Yahoo locked my secret questions for 24 hours and would not allow me access to them so that I could finish the form.
And you wonder why I’m concerned about what would happen AFTER I delete my account when I no longer have access to the information myself. Or even why I’m deleting the account in the first place.

It’s a fetish that I have. I’m not trolling, I really do like to the different smells and the pheromones, but usually I end up having to wait 2 or 3 times after having sex with them until their comfortable with the whole “lick-o-tongue” practice. I just have to find my niche I suppose, because according to a handful of friends apparently there exists women who enjoy doing the same thing to men. So if there are any of you out there, feel free to message my yahoo account if you’er single. I know it’s not Craigs, but hey you gotta network somehow.