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June 29, 2012 06:14 pm GMT

Spam Surge For Some Suggests Something Odd May Be Happening To Yahoo! Mail

Screen Shot 2012-06-29 at 14.52.38Earlier this month Yahoo! became officially DMARC compliant. That's supposed to mean your Yahoo! email inbox should be heavily armoured against phishing attacks and spam. The Domain-Based Message Authentication consortium is a group of Silicon Valley companies like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and PayPal who all pledge to use tools to identify and authenticate an emails sender, and report any issues.However, in the last 24 hours we've started getting reports from readers that, at least for some, Yahoo's email is filling up with spam. But not the spoofed stuff - these spam emails are coming from within verified accounts.

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