Now Yahoo wants a CC number...

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2004-02-10 11:29am

Sigh...I guess yahoo is now off my list of throw away e-mail accounts. Now they want a Credit card number to verify your age before giving you one. I never EVER give my number out over the net nor do I give out my real E-mail address for any reason. I already get enough spam as it is.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-02-10 11:34am

You never buy things online?

Do you use your credit card in restaurants?

In other news: I wouldn't give my CC number out unless I was buying something.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-02-10 12:35pm

now watch yahoo usage drop like a stone. On the plus side i guess it will weed out all the pedophiles and perverts in the chat rooms.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-02-10 12:56pm

That should cut down the amount of trolls I have to deal with over at Animenation

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-02-10 12:57pm

yahoo wants a credit card number now? damnit. . . . .hopefully they don't start requiring that of currently existing users.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-02-10 01:03pm

Just use my number

1234-5678-9012-3456

Have fun

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2004-02-10 01:04pm

Folks, the days of throwaway free e-mail accounts are coming to an end. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now. On one hand, that's a good thing, given the mind-boggling quantities of spam I get from free e-mail accounts (not that some of the big ISPs *cough*AOL*cough* are any better.)

Want a decent low-cost e-mail box? Get a reputable low-cost local or regional ISP. They are out there.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-02-10 01:32pm

Most spammers don't use real email accounts, they simply tap into other SMTP servers or set up their own. But now we won't have a throwaway account to avoid having to delete all this shit from our real ones.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-02-10 01:34pm

what in the hell are you talking about?

I just signed up a dummy account so I could register on a forum without giving up my personal email address.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-10 01:49pm

I assume they allow debit cards too since I'd never touch a credit card.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-02-10 02:03pm

If they ever ask from registered yahoo user to give a CC number,i`ll give them my Star Wars Fan club membership number.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-02-10 02:14pm

Laird wrote: I just signed up a dummy account so I could register on a forum without giving up my personal email address.

Thats one of the reasons I support their move. Yahoo and AOL are the perfect trolling accounts for morons. On the forum I mod though, its unfortunatly not feasable to ban the 2. Hopefully this will drive most of them away.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-02-10 04:34pm

Sharp-kun wrote:
Laird wrote: I just signed up a dummy account so I could register on a forum without giving up my personal email address.
Thats one of the reasons I support their move. Yahoo and AOL are the perfect trolling accounts for morons. On the forum I mod though, its unfortunatly not feasable to ban the 2. Hopefully this will drive most of them away.

I don't give my personal email to any site till I see what kind of a place it is, To me it is just common sense.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-02-10 06:06pm

This is why i have three email accounts - my work one, my home one, and my more anonymous one (my s/n @ a privately owned domain not unfamiliar to anyone reading this). Mind you, they all get spammed, so I guess that means gyp.

But IB gets spammed more than the private ones.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-02-10 11:14pm

Eh... Yahoo sucks anyways.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-11 01:37am

I don't get spammed at any of my six e-mail addresses because I never make my addresses public. WOW! If spambots can't get my address, they don't have my address and therefore can't spam me.

Its not that hard, people.

Wasn't there already a thread on this? I remember posting that before, and for the same reason.

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2004-02-11 04:05am

InnerBrat wrote:You never buy things online?

Do you use your credit card in restaurants?

In other news: I wouldn't give my CC number out unless I was buying something.

Yes I buy things online..but not with credit cards
and no..I don't use CC in restauants, my personal rule is:

If I don't have to cash to eat out/buy something in store etc etc. I dont need to have it. CASH IS KING!!

I have used my credit cards(a grand total of two) for emergencys only. I have used them once only.(plane ticket and car rental when mother died.)

As to throw away accounts, I have a grand total of 6 accounts. Mostly used for p0rn sites

and new message boards. Work e-mail I use for work only, Military for Mil work, Home for family and friends.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-02-11 08:09pm

Rogue 9 wrote:I don't get spammed at any of my six e-mail addresses because I never make my addresses public. WOW! If spambots can't get my address, they don't have my address and therefore can't spam me. Its not that hard, people.

Wasn't there already a thread on this? I remember posting that before, and for the same reason.

Psst! Spambots can guess addresses too.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2004-02-11 08:16pm

Vertigo1 wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:I don't get spammed at any of my six e-mail addresses because I never make my addresses public. WOW! If spambots can't get my address, they don't have my address and therefore can't spam me. :roll: Its not that hard, people.

Wasn't there already a thread on this? I remember posting that before, and for the same reason.
Psst! Spambots can guess addresses too.

Yes, this has happened to me on many occasions. If one has an e-mail address that has the format of First initial, last name, random number or some variation of form: say jdoe1701@thisisntarealaddy.com, then a spambot will merely send out e-mails to all jdoe*****@thisisntarealaddy.com, where it just plugs in random numbers to fill the asterisks.

Shaidar Haran · Post by **Shaidar Haran** » 2004-02-12 12:28am

Hmmm, that's weird. They never asked me and I only recently got a Yahoo account.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-02-12 12:29am

I just set up one to test this, and they never asked for a credit card. You sure you didn't click on one of the pay accounts?

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2004-02-12 12:32am

dag yo, that is pretty lame. the earth really is getting strange. next they're gonna be asking for CC numbers to get into public bathrooms -.-

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2004-02-12 12:39am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I assume they allow debit cards too since I'd never touch a credit card.

I use no form of electronic cash. I am not trustworthy with my own money unless I have to write it out or physically count it