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My yahoo account was recently used to send a large number of bogus emails,by a virus or hacker or something. How do I contact Yahoo to get my email service re-instated? I haven't been able to

Everything I can think of. Just can't open my yahoo email account

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Yahoo is a prime target for contact hacking because it is easy.
I suggest u move to gmail and get ur contact off yahoo.
the emails were probably NOT sent thru ur account.
If u signed up with another email or phone u may be able to retieve ur account.

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Some "computer-hacker" has obtained the password to your Yahoo! account,
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Recently spam hackers have been hijacking Email accounts to use for their own dirty deeds and scams. The best thing to do is to deactivate your Yahoo account and make a new one.

Click here to go to the Yahoo compromisation web site and follow the instructions to disable your account.

The reason deleting the account is because these spam hackers are sending unwanted advertising to all your contacts claiming to be you. As far as you know they might even be sending emails to all your contacts asking for money.
There was a recent scam where spam hackers hijacked this lady's account and sent a message to all her contacts that she was stuck in Namibia and needed money to be sent to a specified account to get home.

To stop it, delete your email account, or if you are able to regain access, change your password to something a little more complex and define for yourself a few security questions only you would know. Another thing is just to contact all the people you had in your contacts and tell them that you account has been compromised and that they must ignore any emails received from it.
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It is clear to me that you have probebly use the same password for both your Facebook account and your Email.

You can go here and declare your account compromised. It will ask you for your Yahoo ID and to copy the provided code into the block provided.

Sometimes Yahoo mail servers are comprimised by spam hackers for spam use so don't go accusing you ex's mother just yet.

It would be a good idea to open a new account and tell all the people who you had in your contacts that your Yahoo account has been compromised.
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5) Send emails to all of your contacts that you had in your old account telling them of the compromisation and to ignore ALL emails from your old account.

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You can also uninstall the currently installed Yahoo!Messenger and reinstall a new one.

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