Yahoo - anti theft / verification... - Webmasters and Developers

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inGearX 3.1415 9265 join:2000-06-11 New York 2 edits	Yahoo - anti theft / verification... My mom has Yahoo! mail she is going traveling and will be signing in left and right in various places... I want to protect her account somehow from theft... keyloggers etc... Gmail has the two - step verification »googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/···+Blog%29 OR before that / still one could create a new temporary gmail account accountTemp2@gmail.com and forward all mail to it from the regular gmail account and reply to all of that mail with regular email from address Does Yahoo have anything like that? I tried to set something like this up like forwarding and I see I will need to pay $20 »overview.mail.yahoo.com/howtos#d_12 to get POP hmmmmm I wish my mom was on Gmail UPDATE I see Yahoo! has two - step - »www.id-theftprotect.com/news.php···_id=1473 BUT there is still a problem - she will not be able to get the code via SMS in other countries - Thailand etc... the code that she will need to sign in... hmmmmmmmmmm any advice? any tips? any tricks? Thank you...
inGearX 3.1415 9265 join:2000-06-11 New York 2 edits	to forum · permalink · 2012-01-03 16:32:50 ·
howardfine join:2002-08-09 Saint Louis, MO	Is your mother sending email that a cracker thinks is worth stealing?
howardfine join:2002-08-09 Saint Louis, MO	to forum · permalink · 2012-01-03 16:48:14 ·
inGearX 3.1415 9265 join:2000-06-11 New York	said by howardfine: Is your mother sending email that a cracker thinks is worth stealing? do not know maybe it is very easy to do in terms of installing a keylogger on a machine then taking over the account and then it could be from something as simple as asking a ransom to get the account back [allllll that mail... info...] to going in depth of each email and once you have the email you can reset passwords of other accounts tied to it ... I've seen dozens of people who have lost their accounts like that... and when people are hungry - you or me we go to great depths to do things (just look at what we have done to our planet) or if someone needs some money for antibiotics to save a family member or for some other drugs...
inGearX 3.1415 9265 join:2000-06-11 New York	to forum · permalink · 2012-01-03 17:01:11 ·
howardfine join:2002-08-09 Saint Louis, MO	And then we die. Just a very bad day.
howardfine join:2002-08-09 Saint Louis, MO	to forum · permalink · 2012-01-03 17:38:06 ·
inGearX 3.1415 9265 join:2000-06-11 New York	reply to inGearX hmmm I see one way is this:
inGearX 3.1415 9265 join:2000-06-11 New York	to forum · permalink · 2012-01-03 19:39:40 ·

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