Yahoo-hosted phishing sites

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Hello,

Anyone know to whom you can report yahoo-hosted phishing sites (or redirects) and get someone who has half a clue? If you try to report the sites to abuse@yahoo.com, or use the online abuse web form, you get a lame message that says 'the email in question did not originate from a Yahoo! mail server' -- or something to that effect.

Yahoo has become a real problem because there seems to be no one to report these sites to. I have seen Yahoo-hosted sites up for a week or more because of that...

Any ideas?

THANKS!
Jon Kibler

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Anyone know to whom you can report yahoo-hosted phishing sites (or
redirects) and get someone who has half a clue?

It would be good if Yahoo would also stop selling ads
to fraudulent companies. If you use their email service
in Russian http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=ru&.lg=ru
then about 90% of the ads that they display are for
companies offering to enter you in the U.S. Green Card
immigration lottery. However, for the past several years
people born in Russia are NOT eligible to enter this
lottery which means that Yahoo is raking in the cash
by supporting fraud. Given the prevalence of phishing
operators in Eastern Europe, one wonders whether there
is some connection here, i.e. Yahoo USA probably does
not know this is going on because they trust their
employees in Eastern Europe to do the right thing,
but due to language barriers, management can't really
monitor what they are doing.

--Michael Dillon

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On the upside they do have a working abuse account, unlike some other big
companies.

Reported details of recent abuse of one of our servers to 4 companies via
abuse addresses. Appears 2 of those big companies don't have, or won't
respond to, "abuse@".

Yahoo were one of those that responded. I got replies (I tried twice) asking
me for the emails that were sent, when I reported it was being used as a drop
box account for other peoples PayPal details.

When I checked the email address is still accepting email <sigh>.

I was pondering writing an article on why this is making the Internet
unusable.