Yahoo Email Locked Account Question

I'm from the usa but i been out of the country most of the time and use yahoo in the other country with no issues. Recently i came back to the usa for a bit then tried to log into my yahoo email and it said its first time i log into new location etc so i figure no big deal. However, it ask me to confirm this but clicking a phone number to confirm it. I did but the issue is the number that is shown... it only show the last few digits of the number... i never used that number ever. No idea where that number even comes from.


So how do i log into my yahoo account? I have my username/password but its just the they saw my location is different. Then couple with the fact that i saw the phone number isn't one i ever used.


I called the yahoo phone number but apparently everything is done only? It does ask me security question but i cannot get it right. I put in a few answers that i thought is the answer but none of them work.


Anyone know how i can fix this issue?

You could try getting in via Thunderbird, using your Yahoo login/password.

Roy

I'm confused at what is thunderbird. It would check my email?


I also found out that phone number was an old phone number that i no longer used. So where do i go from here?

anyone else?

Because this is a Yahoo specific question, this may be something you have to talk to Yahoo about specificly. I'd first try to log into your mail from a different machine. If you can login with other machines, but your current machine doesn't login, then it's a local issue we could help with.

If you can't get into it from other computers as well, you're going to need to contact them directly to open a ticket. I believe this is the link to their site's Help Desk: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/helpcentral