Solving the "Incorrect Password" (Yahoo Mail)

It is very embarrasing when you log onto yahoomail, typed-in your username and password correctly, hoping to see your inbox with new messages on the screen only see a popup box that reads "Verification: Type The Code Shown Below".

Yes! You have to type the code to confirm that it is not a robot that is trying to access your account. 

Over the years email providers had maintained the habits of enhancing their security matrix from time to time. These techniques are mostly written in JavaScript using the conditional statements such as "else-if" etc. 

For instance programmed might work this way; "if a

password is typed wrongly three times trigger security 1" where "security 1" is a question like "when last did you login"? This is simple as instructing your home security guy not to open the gate if you hadn't call him on phone, so if you eventually lost your phone with his number in it; to get the gate open, you must have his number in your head so you can call him from another line, else no way you can get in the house, except there is another instruction given to him as plan B.

Why can't I login?

That is the biggest question. In-fact I have been asked that question often.

You cannot login because you trying to login with a wrong password or from different location within a specific time frame. 

Different location?

"But I did not travel" yeah I know you did not travel. The internet track your location based on your IP address, it can be of a smartphone or computer IP. Each device that wants to access the internet must provide an ID of which is know as IP (Internet Protocol) address, without which such device cannot have internet access. In Nigeria specifically, different cybercafes uses varrays in ISPs (internet services providers). 

These providers, acquire internet bandwidth from different countries. If you are browsing with a German ISP, yahoo for instance, locked you IP address to that location. A program now tells the robot/script in-charge of your account security that you are in Germany. If you eventually try to use another cybercafe or a different ISP with a Nigerian IP address that same day, the program will tell the robot/script, "no no no no no! Do not allow that login because that person cannot be in Germany and Nigeria at same day". In that case yahoo "verification" pops up asking you to type in some sort of codes. 

Tip: Most BlackBerry Smartphones uses foreign IPs, thereby triggering security question(s), when you switch to a laptop or desktop.

Confirm your Identity:

Now the big problem and the most annoying one is when after typing in the codes another box then pops up asking you to answer a question that you thought to had never asked or might have forgotten the answer. 

Why? 

Because you made a slight mistake on your password in the first time, so after typing in the "verification codes" the robot/script isn't satisfied. It noticed the omission(s) in your password and ask you to provide a corresponding answer to you security question.

This question use to be one, Yahoo later made it two. Victims of these questions are people who open their account when it used to be one question. After yahoo implement the two questions protocol, their robot/script I sensed, automatically reset some accounts questions to "where did you meet your spouse" or "what is your oldest child's nickname". If you opened your account lately, then you won't experience this whole problems, all you need is to use your phone number to reset your password anytime you want. 

There is no way to bypass the security questions box when it pops up. However, there are two tricks you can try which had worked for me.

1. Choose the wrong security answer more than three time. Yahoo will temporary lock your account for 12 hours. After twelve hours try to login again, this time make sure the password is correct, else you will have to see the annoying popup box again.
2. Isolate your yahoo account for 3 to 4 weeks with no attempt of logging in. After 3 or 4 weeks use an internet explorer if possible an outdated IE. Do not use any other browser in this trick except Internet Explorer.

Prevention:

If you have not change your security question before. I strongly recommend you do so. I check my email almost every ten minutes each day using a desktop or laptop, yet fell victim of this annoying security protocols. If you have been receiving some warning to change your password each time you log-into your email, then endeavour to do so ASAP. 

Note: Do not disclose your password to anyone. 

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