Cannot access my Yahoo account

If you ever find yourself with a locked Yahoo account, it's likely due to multiple incorrect password attempts.

As a security measure, Yahoo's email and chat client servers automatically lock your account to prevent unauthorized access after there have been multiple invalid password entries.

The ID Lock security measure safeguards a Yahoo account from unauthorized users who try to access your account without permission.Cause

After multiple incorrect password entries to a Yahoo account, the server automatically sets a lock on it.
This happens because every time a Yahoo Account holder logs into his account, he's logged in with a cookie.

A cookie is an information packet that proves you are the valid account holder.
However, when a person tries to access an account with many failed attempts, the cookies expires, triggering the ID lock on the account.
24-Hour Wait

A Yahoo account holder must wait up to 24 hours before accessing the account again.
The lock on the account expires within 24 hours from the time the account was locked.

Unlock Using Another Server Since Yahoo! has many servers around the world, a user can log into his account by visiting a different Yahoo server address. (See Below.)
http://thingsaboutcomputer.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-unlock-yahoo-when-account-is.html

Copy and paste a Yahoo! server URL into the address bar of your Internet browser to access the website.
Enter the Yahoo! ID and password in their respective fields, and click on "Log in" to access your yahoo account.
Avoid Yahoo Account Locks
To prevent future Yahoo! account locks, a user should limit the number of times he tries to enter a password.

If an account holder has forgotten his password, he should use the "Forgot Passsword" feature to reset the password.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/ca/yahoo/edit/id_password/edit-22.html

best solution is to open fresh account

If you can't prove who you are, you could just be some fool trying to get into another person's account. Without SOME proof that this account is yours, you cannot use it. At the moment, I have the same claim to this email account as you, because I don't know anything about it either!

you need the following information to retrieve your password:
yahoo ID zip code (for non-US users name of country) birthdate alternative non-yahoo email address answer to your secret questions.

Usually there are several reasons why it happens the way it happened :
1) Someone is trying to gain access & lock your account. 2) A person tries to guess your password & ID by attempting more than 3 times or so.
But no worries, it's a normal security precaution which will eventually locked the account to prevent the unauthorized user from getting in successfully. This lock down usually will last 24hours after the failed attempts made by the unauthorized user. Go to this main Yahoo! logging site & insert the correct ID & password of your account. The first attempt may prove failure, second attempts will lead you to the "word verification system" which is to make sure that you are not "bots". Follow all those procedures provided by Yahoo!. 48hours after visiting that Yahoo! main logging site, your account should return as normal.
**NOTE: Remember to clear out your ID every time signing out of any sites that preserve your personal informations such as Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger @ Mail & etc. to prevent them from being hack or so.

It means somebody is trying to access to your account & made few failed attempts. But no worries, it's a normal security precaution which will eventually locked the account to prevent the unauthorized user from getting in successfully. This lock down usually will last 24hours after the failed attempts made by the unauthorized user.
Go to this main Yahoo! logging site & insert the correct ID & password of your account. The first attempt may prove failure, second attempts will lead you to the "word verification system" which is to make sure that you are not "bots". Follow all those procedures provided by Yahoo!. 48hours after visiting that Yahoo! main logging site, your account should return as normal. Link : http://login.yahoo.com/config/login

**NOTE: Remember to clear out your ID every time signing out of any sites that preserve your personal informations such as Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger @ Mail & etc. to prevent them from being hack or so.
Or you can simply log in using other Yahoo! servers. =) Link : http://rimmelds.blogspot.com/2008/09/unlock-yahoo-when-your-account-has-been.html

I guess, you account isn't locked yet, but you've forgotten the login password. I am sorry if I am wrong. Well, you can still recover or reset your password. Your security question is "What town was your father born in?", hopefully you can still remember the answer. Open Yahoo!Mail, click "I can't access my account" (at the bottom of the login box). Now, on the password recovery page, select "My Password Doesn't Work" and click "Next", enter your Yahoo ID and the security code in the respective boxes, click "Next", again on the next page, select "I can't access any of the above" but if you still remember the alternate email, enter it. If I am not wrong, your alternate email is a hotmail.com email address... click "Next" and you'll be given options to reset your password. If you do this very carefully, you'll definitely get your account back. I hope you haven't tried multiple times to login which would automatically rejects login attempts within specific period.

Let me know if you need further help.
Good Luck.
Thanks for using FixYa.

If you a have just forgotten your password or username, go to the yahoo mail main page, and click the "forogt" password link. and try to access it that way. if you still cant retrieve your password you can contact yahoo again, and they will ask u to provide proof your who you say you are. thell ask u some questions. name, birthdate, hint question stuff like that. just the information u used to create the account.

Change Security Question

send an email to
[email protected]
In the text of the email, include:
Your Yahoo! Mail ID.
The ZIP code you gave when you registered for the account (non-U.S. residents, please include country).
Your birthdate.
The alternate (non- Yahoo!) email address listed for your Yahoo! ID.
Your current Password Question and Secret Answer (exactly as you entered them at registration).
Your new Password Question and Secret Answer.
Please Note: The punctuation, spelling, and spacing of your new Secret Answer are important. they copy the Secret Answer exactly as it appears in your email.
When they receive and verify the above information, they will notify you that the change has been made.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…

Account Changes

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…

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