FROM TODAY I DISPISE YAHOO

**sdukzen** · 02-Jun-12, 08:44 AM

OHHH sorry caplogs were was still on

**Blurock** · 02-Jun-12, 12:40 PM

This why we must be very very careful when engaging in social media such as FB and Twitter. The main purpose of these social platforms is to collect information for marketing purposes. They are adding applications and content such as birthdays, timeline, maps etc. all the time.

By examining your likes and dislikes they can determine which advertising is most likely to entice you. The more features you link to your page, the easier it is to analyse your demographics for advertising purposes.

**Dave A** · 02-Jun-12, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by sdukzen

THE EMAILS WERE SENT IN MY ACCOUNT, I COULD SEE THIS BECAUSE I STARTED TO GET THE FAILER TO DEALIVER MESSEGES.

That just takes a forged header to achieve. Are the emails shown in your sent items folder?

**sdukzen** · 03-Jun-12, 08:09 AM

Dave: I checked my sent items before I terminated the account and it shows that I have not sent all those messeges.

**sdukzen** · 03-Jun-12, 08:24 AM

I remember a day before this happened I could not log on to my yahoo account.

**Dave A** · 03-Jun-12, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by sdukzen

Dave: I checked my sent items before I terminated the account and it shows that I have not sent all those messeges.

In that case the messages were sent via another messaging system and just had your email details as the "From" and "Reply To" email address. Quite easy to do, really.

If anyone had looked at the email properties, they'd have picked up which email client and system was the origon.

Ultimately not Yahoo!'s fault.

**Citizen X** · 03-Jun-12, 05:42 PM

This is still very unsettling!

**sdukzen** · 04-Jun-12, 05:36 AM

Wow Dave. Vanash its still usettleling for me too, because the level of knowledge of most our contacts is not on the same level. A few think it was me and most of the are cool with everything.

**SilverNodashi** · 04-Jun-12, 09:45 AM

Don't take this the wrong way, but why are you using Yahoo or gmail for business, to begin with? Yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc all get hack - more often than you think and you should not really be using it.

Sure, it's nice to have 7GB online mail, for free - but is your company really that cheap? (P.S. This question is aimed at everyone who runs a company off a free email provider) By using a free email service like this, you already give yourself a bad name, in terms of business. I would never do business with someone who has a gmail account (look at the many fraud & spam reports, who all use gmail b.t.w), and I know many others who won't even bother reading a gmail or yahoo originated email, no matter what you sell or how pure your intentions are.

Every ISP in South Africa, including Vodacom / MTN / 8ta can give you an email account. Most of the times it's free and already configured as soon as you sign up for their internet services.

**Citizen X** · 04-Jun-12, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by sdukzen

Vanash, its bad out of 40 contacts I managed to restore 11. Slowly but surely I will restore most of the. My image has been dented, I cant just imagine me sending for example Brain Mdluli an email about viagra, thats just not me. I have to now make time to go to their offices and explain face to face.

The Mdluli soap opera is getting more interesting by the day. Did you get some form of a response from Mdluli?