Yahoo Says: “Sorry you can’t sign in, but do you have a Credit Card?

Interestingly enough, after a Vista crash on my work laptop, I rebooted to what I thought was a normal Windows session. I opened my Yahoo messenger, clicked the sign in button and was unsuccessful at signing in. Naturally, one tends to click the “Try again” method, and Yahoo signed in fine.

Then, out of the blue up pops Firefox with a Yahoo page saying “Sorry That You’re Having Trouble Signing In”.

Trouble? I look to my status bar; Yahoo seems to have signed in without a problem. Just to make sure, I opened the messenger and saw all my on-line contacts.

That seemed odd.

So, I returned to the Firefox session, meaning to close the browser when something very interesting was also written on the page. It asked to “verify my identity” and then gave me the option to do so using a Credit Card.

A Credit Card?

Even more interestingly, the Firefox NoScript addon had blocked a script from Akamai. There’s Akamai again, tho this time I’m sure they’re just hosting Yahoo’s content and not trying to ping my computer programs.

The page seems legit, Firefox did not warn me about possible spoofing. But seeing as how I signed in fine and somehow got a failure to sign in screen, something has definately gotten mixed up in the mix.

This had been the first time EVER had I ever been prompted to prove my identity with a credit card. That’s what all those “What’s your favorite pet” password retrieval questions are for.

In any case, Yahoo may also nibble my bum if it thinks I’m going to reveal credit card activity to them.