Yahoo email security verification code question

[moparguy]

Hopefully someone is a Yahoo Email guru and can help.

I use a Yahoo Small Business email with the little consulting company I occasionally work for. While on a quick trip to oil patch country in Midland Tx last week I picked up a malware bug from the free wifi I believe at the cheapest hotel in the area, Super8 ($124 per night).

I thought CClean and MalwareBytes had delt with the problem and a local IT service confirmed all the problems had been successfully quarantined.

Now my Yahoo mail is acting screwy, but I did update to the new Yahoo Small Business mail at the time issues started so that may be part of the problem.

My primary concern now is when requesting a verification code to change passwords, it arrives as (it always has) as a message, but "now" it's from this phone number; +1(970)233-1689. Yesterday the codes (I didn't use) were from +1 (650) 353-3972. This is new. A search indicates both are from Palo Alto, and San Francisco CA. area. I don't trust a code from what looks like a private number.

I've tried to activate two factor sign-in, but my paranoia keeps me from using verification codes from the above source.

Am I foolishly too paranoid? Could the code number be legit Yahoo numbers?

Thanks for any help.

RonR

 

[EDankievitch]

I'm guessing your email account got hacked. Don't use the link in the email it's fake. Go to your Yahoo account and make your password changes there and up date your malware software. Same thing happened to my wife's email account. They hope you use their link to make changes then they get your old passwords and new ones. The scams going around today, if people worked this hard on real jobs......

 

[Ozymandias]

I dont like CClean anymore, it messed up my computer twice.

 

[seafish]

I'm guessing your email account got hacked. Don't use the link in the email it's fake. Go to your Yahoo account and make your password changes there and up date your malware software.

This is the correct way to handle your issue.