Anti-spam group Spamhaus accused Yahoo of being a host for thousands of phishing sites. Spamhaus is a non-profit organisation which is involved in anti-spam activities.

According to Spamhaus accusations Yahoo are hosting almost 5,000 domain names containing the words "bank", "PayPal" or "eBay"

Richard Cox, CIO at Spamhaus, said: "They are hosted on Yahoo. I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites,which shows that the situation is out of control."

Also Richard Cox said that Spamhaus had notified Yahoo about a number of cases, but received no replies.

"Whenever there is an entry on SBL, there is a mail sent to them" he said. "They never responded. But anything with 'Barclays Bank' in the title is for nothing other than a fraudulent purpose."

A spokeswoman for Yahoo declared that: "This is the first we have heard of it. We need to investigate this to find out if users are violating terms of contract. We do take Richard's allegations very seriously."


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