What has YahooMail Wrought?

[Zkribbler]

Today, I'm trying to send an email to my friends using YahooMail. When I accessed to BCC line to get a list of my contacts, what I get instead is hundreds perhaps thousands, of names and email address of people I don't know! I notice many last names of my friends, but different first name.

What I think has happened is that YahooMail has gone into the contacts information of everyone who has ever sent me and email or whom I have ever email, has taken all that private information and has dumped into onto my contacts list.

I've tried to find Yahoo forums or some other way of contacting Yahoo, but everything's been re-arranged and I can't find anything.

I've already spend more than an hour deleting these names, and I'm only up to the D's.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Sounds like your account has been compromised. Check your security settings, and don't be surprised if your contacts start complaining about getting spam or porn links from you (even though you didn't send it).

Yahoo!'s idea of customer service is to serve the customer as little as possible. And you might have better luck asking about this in the Computer forum (just a suggestion).

 

[Zkribbler]

I found the "Yahoo community" forum and submitted my question there.

 

[Agent327]

I was kind of wondering why you would ask a Yahoo question on CFC..

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I was kind of wondering why you would ask a Yahoo question on CFC..

Some of us still use it.

 

[warpus]

I have a friend who works for Yahoo Mail as a tech support manager of some sort. When I was visiting San Francisco a couple years ago, he took me out to a super fancy sushi restaurant. There was a wall made out of sake bottles right beside us, and behind that wall seemed to be a long table with Asian gentlemen in suits as well as beautiful Asian ladies. Right before this he introduced me to some California style medicine, so we were pretty sure that was a group of mobsters and their sexy ladies. The sake menu by the way was really complicated, at the time. It was way longer than the sushi menu itself. I made the mistake of asking the waiter to explain sake to me. It took like 5 minutes, and I forgot everything by the time he got to the end of it. He took the time to explain the nuances of which sake goes with which occasion, time, etc., but I just ordered a random one anyway. The sushi was spectacular, I've never had such good butterfish sashimi or ... well, it was some sort of steak. And other sushi. It was all amazing.

Managers at Yahoo Mail make a LOT of money, but they work 24/7. This friend of mine doesn't have a life, all he does is work and eat out at fancy restaurants. And play with his cat. He invited me to move there, he said he could get me a job at Yahoo Mail. But I declined - I'm used to working 35 hours a week and no mo, and not 80+.

I hope your technical issue gets resolved.

 

[illram]

Gmail and Outlook also auto-populate all of the address fields, but only once you start typing. I love this feature actually and stopped using yahoo mail years ago because they did not have it at the time.

Does the long list start to shorten once you start typing? I.e. if you type "a" does it shorten to emails that start with the letter "a"?

 

[Zkribbler]

Gmail and Outlook also auto-populate all of the address fields, but only once you start typing. I love this feature actually and stopped using yahoo mail years ago because they did not have it at the time.

Does the long list start to shorten once you start typing? I.e. if you type "a" does it shorten to emails that start with the letter "a"?

Yes.

The metamorphasis appears to have happened yesterday while I was addressing the email. Yesterday, when I typed "A," I got my contacts. By the time I was looking for certain people whose name begin with "C," I started getting all the other people's contacts.

Just now, I type "A" then "q," I got my friend whose last name is Aquino and at least a half a dozen Aquinos I've never heard of. They weren't there yesterday.

I did leave a message on Yahoo's help board. It's now the next day, and no one's responded.

 

[illram]

Yeah it's auto populating with the names of anyone you have ever emailed or who has ever emailed you, most likely.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My yahoo account just sent my Gmail account a job scam message.

 

[warpus]

If this keeps up I'm going to get a hold of my friend from San Fran and ask him what's going on. But I imagine he's busy earning his over the top salary right now..