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Asked By: ultimatereality 46-50, F  8 months ago

and then the "captcha" (where you type letters that have been obscured to make sure you are a person and not a computer program) won't let you finish? And then you find out that Yahoo took out that 50 cents from your account anyways? I typed that captcha code probably 30 times and it wouldn't work for a "child" so then I changed to age and it worked fine.....but they still took the money for "proving an adult is involved" when you are setting an account up for a child. I am suspecting this is a scam because 50 cents multiplied by however many people do it and then having it not work seems strange to me. And don't tell me that my computer had a problem and couldn't read the code, because it worked just fine when I used the exact same information and just changed the age to adult. Scam by yahoo?

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    billow6 - 36-40 years old - male

    Posted by billow6 Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:52AM

    i wasnt aware yahoo charged for ANYthing
    they have never charged me

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  1. ultimatereality - 46-50 years old - female

    Reply by ultimatereality Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:56AM

    have you tried setting up an account for somebody underage?

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  2. billow6 - 36-40 years old - male

    Reply by billow6 Aug 26th, 2012 at 11:00AM

    a yahoo email? yeah i just did a second ago to see what you mean. there is no area where you put in any account info. they would never ask for any of that. its a free service. i think you are on a fake site. i would call your bank asap.

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6 Answers to "Have you ever tried to sign a child up for Yahoo and checked on their security thing where you put in your bank account"

  1. tombailey - 51-55 years old - male

    Posted by tombailey Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:57AM

    No, but if you would like me to elaborate on my answer, I could say that the situation has never come up, so I've never been in the position of having or wanting to sign up a child on Yahoo.

    (Maybe it would have been better if I'd just left it as 'No'!)

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  2. ColaJay31 - 31-35 years old - female

    Posted by ColaJay31 Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:53AM

    No never.

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  3. Creamsicle - 41-45 years old - female

    Posted by Creamsicle Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:52AM

    I would never pay to set up ANY account online... once they have your bank information, they have it forever - and can charge whatever the heck they want to it.

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  4. ultimatereality - 46-50 years old - female

    Reply by ultimatereality Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:57AM

    well its a good thing i have almost no money.....

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  5. Creamsicle - 41-45 years old - female

    Reply by Creamsicle Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:57AM

    That's bad.... that means you could end up with over the limit fees, etc

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  6. heltersmelters - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by heltersmelters Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:52AM

    It sounds like you got a fake Yahoo site.

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  7. ultimatereality - 46-50 years old - female

    Reply by ultimatereality Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:55AM

    But I now have the email in Yahoo that I set up that way, along with my other Yahoo accounts...can a fake Yahoo site provide a real Yahoo email address that works?

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  8. Lushiro - 18-21 years old - male

    Posted by Lushiro Aug 26th, 2012 at 10:50AM

    Nope sorry.

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