I had a yahoo email over ten years. I used it for ebay and government au ctions. It was also my yahoo messenger handle. Over 450 on yahoo friends, and over 700 email contacts, gone in an instant. I tried every possible password, but no luck. No longer had the hotmail account I'd used when I opened it ten years before, nor could I recall what answer I may have given to their stupit "secret question". I called them three times but was no use, they won't let nobody in that ain't got the keys