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[Tilly2]

Has anyone ellse had an email from bt about the rationalisation of email addresses?
If I want to keep my yahoo email address I have to actively tell them before September 16th.
Have you had the same message?

[boxtops]

Not quite the same, tilly - I have a btinternet email address which runs through Yahoo, they say the log in will change imminently, but I don't know more than that.

[Tilly2]

Mine's a btinternet yahoo one as well, boxy. You explained better than I did.
Thank you.

[boxtops]

I understood it to say that it's only how we log in that will change - nobody's said anything about changing my email address?

Perhaps it's different if your email address ends in @yahoo.co.uk ?

[Tilly2]

Mu address ends in '@btinternet.com'

The email says that if I wish to keep the address, I have to let them know.
I'm just wanting to know if anyone else has had that message and that it's bone fide.

[Electrochem]

I have a BT E-mail address and by the sounds of it someone is trying a bit of a phishing attack to gain access to your E-mails. Contact BT.

I have had an E-mail saying that the log in is changing, so it seems like a scam to me.

[boxtops]

tilly, I think I agree with electro, you're being spammed. Whatever you do, don't respond to it.

Just looked on the Yahoo QA page, this is what it tells you to do

Marking spam in Yahoo! Mail

Instantly send us all of the information we need to investigate and block the sender and improve our SpamGuard technology while moving the message to your Spam folder.
1.Check the box next to any spam email in your message list.
2.Click the down-arrow next to Spam.
3.Select an option from the pull-down menu: •Report Spam: General Spam emails from a contact or company
•Report a Hacked Account: •Suspicious emails from a known contact.
•Emails you believe the contact didn't intend to send.

•Report a Phishing Scam: Suspicious emails asking for your password, credit card number, or other personal information.

[Tilly2]

I will contact bt today, if possible. Thank you, Electrochem.

Mr. Tilly has already replied to the email and is convinced it's O.K. I am rather more cautious than him.

[boxtops]

oh noooooooo - if it's spam, that leads you open to all sorts of more spam.... Mr T's told the spammers that yours is a live email address. :-(

[Tilly2]

I told him not to do it!

[Alston]

I feel sure Mr Tilly is right.

http://home.bt.com/news/btlife/the-bt-yahoo-mail-login-experience-is-changing-11363812900474

Read related articles down the side of the page.

Al.

[Electrochem]

I think some people are not reading the question properly! The way you log in will be changing, nothing else! Neither I, nor any other member of my family has had an E-mail from BT asking me to confirm that I wish to keep my E-mail address. The only occasion you may be asked about this is if you haven't used your E-mail for a long time.

[Maydup]

Yep, i read it that you had to use the email address or lose it that's all. A tidy up of all the inactive ones to allow them to be reused I expect.

[Tilly2]

I have just managed to talk to BT, after twenty minutes hanging on the phone and it is a genuine email. It's something to do with linking the bt emails to the broadband accounts.

So that's O.K.
Thank you all for your help.

[Electrochem]

Glad you got it sorted. It's always better to safe than sorry with these things.

Glad to be of help.

[Tilly2]

I did get a bit worried about it but it's all sorted now.
I just wonder why no one else seems to have had the email.
Maybe we are first in the queue.

[boxtops]

This is odd, tilly, since other btinternet account holders haven't had the email.

Alston's link says

Incidents of ‘phishing’ – where you are encouraged to put your log in or other personal details into fake websites – can increase when companies make changes such as these. Please take extra care when entering your log in details:

•Make sure you only log in on the BT Yahoo! or BT.com websites
•Don’t log in from a link in an email
•If in doubt, retype www.bt.com into your web browser and use the ‘Email’ link

I am still doubtful - why haven't they emailed all of us? According to alston's link, it's only the way you log in which is changing (which is what I understood all along)

[kjn2]

Tilly2 I Received the same e mail as you yesterday evening. In the past it was possible to have [email protected]. as an e mail address without having their broadband ( I did at a cost of £1-65 pr month) maybe something to do with that??

[Alston]

kjn2.....I would say you are Spot-On.

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/45245/?s_cid=com_FURL_emailchanges

Al.

[boxtops]

Alston, thanks - I've seen nothing of this other than something from Yahoo about the log-in, so I must assume that as I'm already on BT Broadband, with a long-standing @btinternet email address, nothing will change for me? That's the way I interpret it - I've surely no need to link my email address to my broadband, because that's already linked? (I got my btinternet address when I first started having the BT broadband.)

It seems to read as if people who have btinternet email addresses but no longer have BT broadband are the ones who are being contacted?

Tilly, who provides your internet service, am I right?

[Alston]

Hi boxtops...I am the same as you.....Long standing with the best Broadband Provider and have an e/mail address...... @btinternet.com

It will be interesting to know who provides Tilly's broadband.

Al.