Yahoo Mail to block fake eBay and PayPal e-mail
If you use Yahoo Mail you should be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal very soon.
Yahoo will be upgrading its system beginning on Thursday with technology--dubbed "DomainKeys"--designed to block phishing spam and other fraudulent e-mails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don't. The system works by verifying the domain of the sender of the e-mail, allowing ISPs to block messages they deem illegitimate.
The upgrade is expected to be accomplished globally over the next several weeks.
Typically, the phishing scams masquerade as e-mails from trusted financial sources and direct a recipient to a Web site where they're asked to enter their user name and password. From there, their information is stolen.
Although most companies warn their customers that they won't send unsolicited e-mails asking for usernames and passwords, many people are still fooled. Blocking the scam e-mails before they hit in-boxes should cut down on the problem. Now, when is Yahoo going to do this for the major banks?
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
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you would think that cnet's research team might be a little aggressive before they run with a story
you'll know what that means if u had to send newsletters to yahoo users and see the mail-queue choke with rejects from yahoo. And yahoo support for these problems is literally robotic (idiotically robotic).
i'm headed for troubled times if yahoo blocks email for domainkeys as exim (a very popular Mail Transfer Agent) has only experimental support for domainkeys. hope that's restricted to these too domains.
yahoo and has been using it for years. Now, it seems that EBay
is also implementing the same. Perhaps that would mean some
kind of collaboration between the two.
It doesnt affect me anyways; i hardly get any spam on my 5 year
old address.