Important Message From The Yahoo! Team

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This is a hoax/scam. The purpose of the message below was to gain user account information. On no account send ANY details in response to this message:

From: Help Desk

Addresses: <systems_tech_help_center@yahoo.com>

Subject: Important Message From The Yahoo! Team

To: < yahoo address was entered here >

Due to an overload in the Yahoo! Service Systems, we regret to

inform our users that our System Bots have been malfunctioning.

As a result of this occurance, personal information of Yahoo!

Users may, unfortunately, be erased. To ensure User Safety and

to avoid the occurance of account deletion, we need to

re-process up-to-date information into our computer bots. If

information as followed is not provided by April 25th, we regret

to inform you that your Account may be deleted.

Please fill in the required information below:

User ID:

Password:

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,

The Administrators @ Yahoo! Help Desk

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