Why I am getting a password reminder email even I didn’t ask it for

Jyoti Raut April 18, 2013 0

Conclusion On Password Reminder - Sometimes you will get an password reminder email on your mail account even you didn’t ask for any request to your email provider to activate any service.

I have an email account on various email provider. like windows live hotmail, AOL, yahoo mail, Gmail Now i have got an email from yahoo mail in to my windows live hotmail this email have my old yahoo mail password. I was shocked because i didn’t even ask yahoo email service provider to activate or change my service which i have on to my yahoo mail.

Why I am getting a password reminder email even I didn't ask it for

Password Reminder

There are several Reasons because of this you have got this password reminder email on to your another email account. Here are some of the reasons which can cause you for this.

Before i told you some of the reasons first we differentiate the condition and the conditions which are responsible for generating an password reminder email.

  1. First condition is the password reminder email contains a wrong password of your email account.
  2. Second condition is the password reminder contains a correct password of your email account.

Lets talk about the first condition where you will get an email which contains wrong email password in the password reminder email.

  • Email can be sent you by any hacker to guess your password and might be you respond it with an correct email password of the particular account.
  • Email can sent you by spammer to get your personal information.
  • Might be someone trying to access some of the services which you have in your email account and he tries to change your password.
  • Might be you have become a victim of phishing.
  • Phishing is some how related to the spamming of email.

Those are some of the reasons responsible for an email of password reminder. Here you just don’t have to respond to any of the email.

Now here are some reasons which second condition on which you will get an correct password from your email provider to get an email on password reminder.

  • First reason for getting an email password reminder if you have activate some other service on your email account and for this service you need to log on again. for this you will get an email for password reminder.
  • Second reason for getting this password reminder email because you have changed password on your email account. And with response you will get an password reminder email.
  • Third reason for passowrd reminder because of the web crawler or spider of your email provider have crawl your email account.
  • Email provider update some services and then this password reminder email tells you to update your email account.

You can get password reminder email on which you get wrong or correct password but if you have got an correct password and if the password reminder email have not been sent by your email provider then you have need follow those steps.

  • First option for you to Delete the specific mail and change your password of the secific email account.
  • Second option for you t just Delete the email address.











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