Everytime I check my email, a dialog box pops up and it contains a message like... Mary Doe would like to add you to his or her online contacts list. Please add me to your yahoo messenger list so we can chat. I never accept - I either ignore it or decline. But I'm curious - how and why does this happen? The invite is always from a different person - it's always a female name/pseudonym. Anyway to turn it off? BTW, yahoo mail is my alternate email - I rarely use it. But I doubt that has anything to do with this.
Are you using the new Yahoo! Mail or Mail Classic? Either way, I'm pretty sure you can turn that off in options.
Yahoo Mail/servers have porn bot crawlers that add you to their friends list. It's a way of bombarding you with spam and so on. You need to set your options to messages from contacts/friends only.
Too right! I remember when Yahoo! Mail was probably the best, I think it was around 10 years ago! Yes, that's what I was trying to remember, thanks Commando.
Hey Cudni - Thanks for the tip. At first it didn't work - there was no such option in the drop-down menu. But that was because I was using the old "classic" version of Yahoo Mail. I upgraded to current and then the sign-out option appeared in the drop-down menu. Len