Hi all concerned, just a note to say my yahoo ID was kidnapped by someone in Geocites. They sent a ransom note to my alternate email address asking for $120 to be deposited to an egold account. All my yahoo sites where affected and not accessible. I sent many notes to Yahoo! concerning this problem including the ransom note. I started calling the customer service number at 2am PDT today (Sunday). At about 0615 I reached a real person who tranferred me to the security department. The usual questions were asked to verify my account. My zip code had been changed. Jasper, the Yahoo! rep promised to reset the password within one hour. I am waiting for this now. All this happened in less than 24 hours. First clue there was a problem was from my Yahoo! Instant Messenger friends asking about some link to Geocities I had sent them. As I did not send ANY links I felt something was happening. I should have changed my password at this point. This started about 2 days ago.
Anyway, I will let all know the results of resetting the password soon.
There seems to be hope.
Thank you all for the forum. It let me know I was not alone with this problem.
Cheers,
John