The secret question is normally a canned question and then your answer is supposed to be something only you would know and remember like a child's middle name or your elementary school, etc. If you don't remember this, then I'm not sure. The other thing is that there should have been a secondary email address that you provided to Yahoo when setting up your Yahoo email/profile. This secondary email address is also used for the purpose of sending you a password reset so that only you would have access to the password reset link. Did you not have a secondary email address or not have access to it any longer?
I guess the moral to this story is to make sure the secret question and answer is something that you will know and remember forever... and to have a secondary email account where Yahoo can send out a password reset. Other than that, be glad it was only your Yahoo ID and not real identity theft of your bank and credit card information... or totally wiping out your savings, mortgaging your home, etc. You probably do not want that old ID again anyhow. More than likely it's being used to spam like crazy so it will end up on every spam blacklist and you would never be able to use it for email. The thief probably deleted and blocked all of your friends and/or sold their names and email addresses to other spammers. Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of daladee_tanicka Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Y!M] Account hacked The new person did this. I called yahoo and the want me to answer the secert question and I do not remember it that is where my problem lies >
