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  • There are several activities which could cause this message. Usually your account will be frozen from sending for 24 to 48 hours, although you can still open and delete mail during that time. You just have to wait out that lock on sending mail – no other choice. The most common reason for this message is attempting to send to too many addresses at once. Yahoo’s limits are 100 addresses in total, with only 50 per domain such as @yahoo.com, but Yahoo recommends sending to far fewer than that number at once. There is also a limit on the number of mails sent per hour (200 addresses) and per day (unknown number) Frequently the ‘suspicious activity’ warning occurs for far fewer addresses. Sometimes Yahoo is doing ‘maintenance’ on a particular server, which will affect service for those accounts using that one of many servers for a short while. Your account may have been taken over and is being used as a robot ‘zombie’ account to send spam, unknown to you. In that case, change all your security information – a good thing to do every so often anyway. Yahoo’s advice is to change your password, but there are several more security settings to change than just your password. This Help page has more information, stated clearly, with several links to clarify the steps.

    http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=cont…

    FIRST, check that the alternate e-mail address/mobile phone number is still yours, under Options, Mail Options, Account Information, but then change it! (so the hacker will not be notified of the change). Check the ‘Reply To:’ address as well. Then change both your password AND your secret questions and answers. Make the password a long, strong one with mixed characters! Length = Strength for passwords! Start with a sentence and make substitutions with numbers, symbols and punctuation. Go to “Update password-reset info” to change your Secret Questions and Answers. Make sure they are unchangeable, unique, and easy for you to remember.

    For a Yahoo account, you can change your password at https://edit.yahoo.com/config/change_pw. If you can no longer access your account, you can get a new password at https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot/.

    To contact Customer Care: 1. Click Help on the mail page, then Customer Care, then Live Chat (a balloon chat bubble or the e-mail envelope) It make take a while, but a human answers! (If the page loads slowly, refresh it, or click the F5 key.) You will be asked several questions to verify that you are the owner of the account. E-mail responses are slower of course. 2. The E-Mail address for Yahoo! Customer Care is: or [email protected]. Change the links to your own country ending if the account is not from the US. There are Customer Care agent reference page for many categories of support:

    http://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?l…

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    • Originally posted 2013-11-09 21:43:51.