I Don’t Work For Yahoo
The first post of this blog told the story of how I recovered my Yahoo account after it had been hijacked. The subject actually turned into a 3 part series.
I wrote these posts because I knew I wasn’t the only one who had lost control of their Yahoo account and couldn’t get it back by the standard password recovery method offered by Yahoo. Message boards and forums were filled with posts by panicked people looking for ways to recover their Yahoo accounts. There were even many websites offering to hack the account in question in an effort to recover the password so users could get control of their accounts back.
I didn’t want any part of that. Though I didn’t want to lose my Yahoo account forever I also wasn’t going to hire a hacker to recover it for me. So I set out on what I felt was a more logical course and got control of my account back in about 5 days. I decided to share my story as it unfolded to show others another way to do it. My method may or may not work for everyone but it worked for me and was (is?) certainly worth trying.
The first post in the series is the second most commented on post ever on this blog. In fact I still get comments on it today even though the post is already over 6 years old. The problem is that most of the comments I get ask me to help the person leaving the comment recover the password for a particular account.
This type of comment is my biggest frustration with managing this blog. My second biggest frustration with managing this blog is the dramatic drop in comments from part 1 to part 2 to part 3. People were obviously experiencing this problem and instead reading the whole way through to see how it turned out they figured that if I did it for myself I’d be able to do it for them. It’s like reading the first chapter of a novel then emailing the author to ask them how it ends.
To anyone who thinks this way I have one thing to say: I don’t work for Yahoo so I am unable to help you recover your password for you in a legal way. And I cannot and will not help you recover your password in any other way. (Okay, that was really 2 things but you get the idea.)
As mentioned above I wrote the post to tell the story of how I successfully and legally recovered my account. The hope was that it would inspire people to think out of the box and empower them to try methods that were different from the ones supplied by Yahoo in the box. Though I occasionally let one of these comments on the blog (with a reply that says I can’t help) my standard response is to ignore them. Considering the drop in comments from the first post onward I’m guessing that nobody who leaves these kinds of comments will be reading this. But in the off-chance that any of them are please take heed and waste your time by leaving a comment like that or my time by causing me to have to delete it.
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