Identify 合法的 Yahoo websites, requests, and communications
Scammers are always looking for ways to get personal info with malicious 意図. Know how to 認める 合法的 Yahoo websites, requests, and communications to keep your account 安全な・保証する.
Yahoo websites
If you're on a Yahoo website, the URL 含む/封じ込めるs "yahoo.com". Another 指示,表示する物 that the 場所/位置 is 安全な・保証する is the presence of the lock icon
in the 演説(する)/住所 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業.
Yahoo requests
We never ask for personal info, such as credit cards or passwords, in emails. However, from time to time, we'll ask you to update your 回復 info after 調印 in. You'll also get a notification 肩書を与えるd "Your Yahoo account (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) has changed" if any info in your account settings are updated.
What Yahoo communications look like
- 見解(をとる)ing from web-based email - Emails from us 含む a Yahoo icon next to the sender 指名する. If you don't see it, then the email isn't from Yahoo.
- 見解(をとる)ing from 3rd-party apps - The Yahoo icon won't appear in some apps, even if the email is truly from us. Check the sender's email 演説(する)/住所 without 開始 the email by mousing over the sender's 指名する in your Inbox.
推論する/理由s you'll receive notifications
- Your review of content on Yahoo (such as travel 目的地s and 地元の 商売/仕事s) received a 返答.
- There's important activity 関係のある to your account, such as password changes or 満期 of a credit card you use to 支払う/賃金 for any Yahoo services.
Best practices to keep yourself 安全な
Best practices
- Don't enable the "use いっそう少なく 安全な・保証する apps" feature.
- Don't reply to any SMS request asking for a 立証 code.
- Don't 答える/応じる to unsolicited email or requests to send money.
- 支払う/賃金 attention to the types of data you're 権限を与えるing 接近 to, 特に in third-party apps.
- Use only 合法的 third-party apps, which won't ask you for Yahoo's two-factor 立証 code.
- Don't use internet search engines to find Yahoo 接触する info, as they may lead you to malicious websites and support scams. Always go 直接/まっすぐに to Yahoo Help Central for 合法的 Yahoo 顧客 support.
- Never click 怪しげな-looking links. Hover over hyperlinks with your cursor to preview the 目的地 URL. いつかs a hyperlink can be 陳列する,発揮するd as a Yahoo link in an email, when in fact the 目的地 URL will be a malicious domain.
- Be careful when 権限を与えるing an app to 接近 your account or when 供給するing any third-party 接近 to your account info. 使用/適用s 公式に supported by Yahoo go through an 産業-基準 vetting 過程 that 申し込む/申し出s a (疑いを)晴らす, obvious authentication known as OAuth 2.0.
- Spoofing - used by spammers to make an email or website appear as if it's from someone you 信用.
- Phishing - an 試みる/企てる by scammers to 提起する/ポーズをとる as a 合法的 company or individual to steal someone's personal (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状), usernames, passwords, or other account (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状).
- 偽の email 演説(する)/住所s - Malicious actors いつかs send from email 演説(する)/住所s made to look like an 公式の/役人 email 演説(する)/住所 but in fact is 行方不明の a letter(s), misspelled, 取って代わるs a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. "O" and "0"), or 起こる/始まるs from 解放する/自由な email services that would not be used for 公式の/役人 communications.
- Change your Yahoo account password.
- Update or change your Yahoo account (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状).
- 接触する your 財政上の 会・原則 if you 供給するd 財政上の 詳細(に述べる)s.