Yahoo Account Yahoo Mail Sign In Server Goes Down

Dec 14, 2010

Many users of Yahoo services are taking notice of their email and other Yahoo products and services not functioning. The servers that Yahoo uses have been suffering from heavy overload starting on Monday.

The services being affected by the server overload are Yahoo mail, Yahoo answers, and Yahoo chat, as well as others. Yahoo answers is rated as the second most popular Q&A site on the internet.

Yahoo plans to lay off several hundred employees in its products division. The layoffs were supposed to come on Tuesday. This is another reason that the services are not working properly. Without the employees to maintain the sites and services they can’t function properly.

There is also news of a scam email going out to Yahoo users. Below is a copy of the scam email. If you receive this, do not respond to it. I have corrected some of the misspellings in the email.

Dear Yahoo! Member,



We are really sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you. Due to the rate at which we have newly registered members, our system data base is getting congested and as a result it could lead to a steady shut down of server and at which, we have decided to deactivate all unused account and some of our account that we find error on for both premium and free accounts.




Every account that receives this message has encountered this error and will have to update his/her account by filling out the requested information Below.


Please be sure to click the REPLY button before attempting to fill in the requested information.



Full Name:

Email:

Account Pass word:

DOB:

Country:




After you have all this information filled in correctly and have it sent back to us for update, your Yahoo! account will not be interrupted/shutdown and you will continue enjoying your account as normal.

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