Yahoo! Sneaks in Yet More Spam

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Yahoo Sneaks in Yet More Spam

In the "You Get What You Pay for Department," what a hoot! 
Yahoo is now so desperate for revenue they have turned ON 
all the "yes send me spam" indicators for their users who
chose "NO do NOT send me spam!"

They just did a RESET, and now everyone is wide open to spam. They
sent out no notification to those who said "I never want to hear from
yahoo" because .... the notification went out before they did their
Reset. So Users with "no spam" settings got no notice, then they got
reset, and now they get spam.  (And Yahoo's "privacy [sic] policy"
clearly says that they can make changes without notice. So they've
done nothing wrong...)

As soon as the user turns everything off again, their popmail access
is removed (they are going pay with that service on Monday anyway). 

Some people are putting the e-mail address of the FTC in as their
contact addresses now on new accounts. So when the spammers harvest
their addresses, they send the spam to the FTC.

To UNDO it, go to the following URL and sign in:

http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/eval_profile

Select "Edit Your Marketing preferences" within the "member
information" section and individually change all selections in a
series of marketing categories, from YES to NO.  Don't forget to hit
SAVE CHANGES!  Make sure you ALSO tell them (at the bottom of this
page) that you do not want Postal Mail or TELEPHONE solicitations,
either!  If you ever gave them your real address or phone number,
you might want to make some adjustments to that as well.

Here's the whole sordid story from MSNBC. 
(For more, see DSL Reports.)

http://www.msnbc.com/news/731517.asp?cp1=1#BODY

 
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