How to delete your Yahoo! email account, IM, or profile

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By Larry Fitzgibbon
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A person's privacy is very important and as users we often leave pieces of information about ourselves stored in databases across the internet. This simple process will walk you through how to terminate your account with Yahoo!. It will permanently delete your account data and settings for your Yahoo! ID, Mail address, and Profile names. It will also delete your account data and settings across Yahoo! including the contents of your HotJobs, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Address Book, Yahoo! GeoCities, Yahoo! Briefcase, and My Yahoo!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Your user name and password
Internet connection and browser

Step 1

Make sure you have your user name and password handy.
Step 2

Go to the following URL - http://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
Step 3

Enter your user name and password
Step 4

You will be asked again to enter your password. Enter your password and click "Terminate this Account"

Tips & Warnings

Your account will be deactivated and then deleted from Yahoo's user registration database in approximately 90 days.
Personal information for users subscribed to Yahoo! Finance Premium Services will be kept by Yahoo! for at least 3 years after the subscription end date.
Yahoo! may allow other users to sign up for and use your ID once it's deleted.
If you have information you don't want to loose make sure you back up all you vital information before completing these steps.

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jasey143 said

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on 10/5/2009 could u please delete my accounts big_time_skater@yahoo.com and boobyeya@yahoo.com someone hacked my pw and i couldnt retrieve it coz he changed my secret question and my account info could u please please help me before this guy used my saved files thanks alot....