Some SOB used the data from the "Sent"folder to send out SPAM. If you get any of that please delete. Sorry about that!
Still waiting to hear from YAHOO on this. 
I hope it will be before June when they all have to be working from a real office, again.
I was wondering why you sent me that stuff.
Yeah and so were a lot of other people I know. Getting an email from me with just a link should always set off alarm bells. Everyone should know that I usually have one or two additional tidbits to pass on.
'S what I figured. It went into the trash, straight away.
Same here, looked phishy so I nuked it.
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Good! Having one’s wits at the ready helps!
Now I feel left out.
I never got any spam from HJ.
Yes I received one from HJ also , and when I saw what it was for , it was deleated .
My Yohoo email was hacked a couple of weeks ago , and I was receiving mail back asking why I had sent that mail , and some just told me that I had been hacked .
Why the hell don’t they hack the bad guys overseas , and leave us alone ?
Tony Walsham said:
Now I feel left out.
I never got any spam from HJ.
I’ll see if I can dig it out of my trash and forward it to you. I’d hate for you to miss out.
Hi Hans and others:
Ditto.
Same thing happened to me yesterday.
My list of contacts was hacked to send out SPAM emails.
I even rec’d a SPAM email from some of my contacts !
How is this done?
How does one access the contacts file?
I guess this is what happened to Hans, his list of contacts was hacked to send out spam email.
Yahoo just moved over to their “new and improved” format. Maybe this opened the door to hackers?
Anyone know how this is done?
Norman
Hi Vic Smith:
Is that the nuclear bomb test set up on the Pacific island which the American military “borrowed” from the inhabitants?
After the test blast, there was no more island !
Fascinating to watch the release of energy. Really is an amazing advancement of science to have developed such a release of energy.
I do not understand how the American ships can be located so close to the detonation. What about radiation exposure for the American sailors?
Even more amazing is the fact that we are all still here and managed to not blow each other up !
Norman
Hi Norman
That was A-Bomb Test Baker, the 5th atom bomb detonated after Trinity, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and test Able. This was the first underwater detonation. Trinity was an airburst on a tower 90 feet up, the two Japanese bombs and the Able test shot were also airbursts at about 1500 feet if I recall. The Able shot tested an airbursts potential against a potential enemy ship fleet, which was made up of captured and decommissioned warships, including the Prinz Eugen and the Nagato, as well as several veteran American ships that deserved a better send off. That test damaged and sunk several ships but surprisingly most survived. Baker was to test the effects of an undersea burst and the effect of the underwater pressure shock wave on surviving surface ships, the bomb was dangled on an LSTs anchor chain 90’ in a 180’ deep bay, the blast completely disintegrated the LST, no trace of it was ever found, and if you watch the film a large black vertical mass momentarily appear in the column of water, that is the battleship USS Arkansas, sister to the USS Texas, the blast upended her vertically and then slammed millions of tons of water on top of her, she then sank almost instantly, other ships suffered massive damage from the compression wave in the water and also soon sunk.
The ships were all abandoned, the only “personnel” being test animals, pigs goats rats, some of which were instantly killed by the blast but most of which died later from radiation exposure. I have vivid mental images of test footage of little piggy fireballs.
The nearest naval personnel were 10 miles away on the other side of the atoll. That was considered a safe distance even into the early H-bomb era until the castle Bravo H-bomb test about 10 years later, the forward crews got figuratively and very nearly literally fried when the experimental nuke produced a fireball 3X larger than planned. The expected yield was estimated to be 4-5 megatons, the actual was 15 megatons! They survived safely but it was a terrifying experience for them.
Castle Bravo was also the source of the “Lucky Dragon” incident when a Japanese fishing boat was caught in the fallout.
History is fun!
Norman Bourgault said:
Hi Hans and others:
Ditto.
Same thing happened to me yesterday.
My list of contacts was hacked to send out SPAM emails.
I even rec’d a SPAM email from some of my contacts !
How is this done?
How does one access the contacts file?
I guess this is what happened to Hans, his list of contacts was hacked to send out spam email.
Yahoo just moved over to their “new and improved” format. Maybe this opened the door to hackers?
Anyone know how this is done?
Norman
Not quite Norman; I got rid of my “Contacts” list two years back when this happened too. This time they used the “Sent” folder to get addresses. Soooo … now I got rid of everything in the “Sent” folder. Now when I receive mail I’ll read it, reply to it if necessary, delete the email and the reply (if any). So there will be nothing to use to send out garbage.
Three folders left, one for the complaints to YAHOO, one for the Garden Gazette and one with info for one lonely password. In clear text they are welcome to that.
Time will tell if that is enough, oh BTW all the updates and the usual security are in place. If it wouldn’t be so much bother I’d tell Yahoo to stick in their ear and change to … oh wait a minute, they are all the same. I got what I don’t pay for.
Hi Hans:
Maybe you should create a NEW Yahoo email account ( with a new password ) for yourself and delete your current Yahoo email account. That might solve your problem.
Everyone tells me that GMAIL is far superior and it is not too difficult to transfer the Yahoo folders over to new GMAIL folders.
Norman
Norman,
I change the password frequently. There are too many instances where the email address is used as the login on any number of sites.
Right now I just grit my teeth, wait for an answer from YAHOO and see how it goes.
What gets my goat is the fact that I very seldom forward anything to anybody. When I get forwarded mail in any mail account it gets marked as spam, on the theory if it can’t be linked the source is suspect.
I stopped using Yahoo mail on the internet just for those reasons.
Had 2 contacts in Yahoo mail and both got spammed. removed them.
Only use Outlook on my computer for all emails behind a fire wall now.
Hi Guys:
Just read my Yahoo Spam folder:
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For immediate access, please Sign on to verify your identity:
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do NOT click on Click Here !!!
ONLY change your password through the front webpage entry
Yahoo required me to change my password and I did through the front webpage and first incorrectly answering the security question and then answering correctly the security question
For some reason users of the Yahoo are under a scam attack.
Someone wishes to destroy the data of Yahoo users.
So once again, DO NOT reply to ANY email you receive in your Yahoo Inbox requesting that you change your password.
ONLY change your password by logging in through the Yahoo home webpage.
Norman
