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Anonymous Posted on Oct 20, 2014

How do I access my email, I can only remember one of the security questions and have forgotten the password?

One security question is 'in what town was your mother born?' Can't recall the answer to the other question, which was 'favorite author' and cannot recall the password

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SOURCE: locked out of yahoo email and password not working

did u give any secondary email while signing up with yahoo..if so yahoo and click forget password then dey will ask for D.O.B,pincode,country and den security question.click forget answer here..then dey will send a new password to ur secondary mail id...

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SOURCE: Someone hacked into my email..and keeps changing my passwords..

it can be fixed but you would need to provide your original info and email address but you can't post it here.

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Reset the password with the customer service representative over the phone.
The representative will help you change the user name if needed and reset the password so you can access the account again.
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Go to the Yahoo mail page which asks you for your Yahoo ID.
Click on "I can't access my account."
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These questions will be something like: "What was your first car?" or "Who was your third grade teacher?" If you answer coincides with the answer you gave when you signed up for the account.
Yahoo will give you your user ID.
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Start using your old Yahoo email account.
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Go to the Hotmail, or the MSN ID page, where it asks for your user name and password
Enter your user ID.
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Click on "I have forgotten password"
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Unless you have registered a secondary email, if you choose email then the password will be sent to the account you can't access.
If you want to change password then you will be asked the security questions you specified when you registered the account.
Questions are something similar to, "Mothers birth place?" You may also be asked for your zip code, or address.
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Enter anew password when the MSN ID page loads again and access your old email account.
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Choose the appropriate selection from the page that loads.
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If you select "I forgot user name," then click on "retrieve user name page," which you will see further down on the page.
Enter the alternate e-mail with which you registered the account.
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Select "I have forgotten my password" If you know your user name then choose and click on "retrieve password" page.
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