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Suddenly My Yahoo Account is locked How to Resolve?

Yahoo! is quite impulsive in maintaining the protocol to keep the products and services up to its policies. Any kind of malfunctioning in the product or services may impact your usage. In case your Yahoo account gets locked all of the sudden for 10-12 hours, regain your account in quick time by implementing the essential steps but before that we should know the reasons, why yahoo account gets locked or blocked abruptly. 

Though Yahoo customer care team will be helping you in knowing the exact reason behind your email account getting blocked but you can check the enlisted reasons easily by going through the below mentioned points.

Following Reasons are Potential Causes for Blocking 

 Attempting to access Yahoo account with wrong login credentials.
 Sending mails to large number of people at a time beyond the specified limit.
 Hacking attempts made on your Yahoo ID. 
 Recipients marking you spam upon sending unwanted messages.
 Having unauthorized access of Third party apps.
 Issues with POP and IMAP settings during setup of email account in third party app.

As Yahoo account gets unlocked in 10-12 hrs depending on the severity, but what about those people who want to see their Yahoo account active in quick time as there are certain documents saved in drafts that need to worked upon in quick time and escalate it to clients on a regular basis.  
Here are different strategies to get Yahoo Account Unlocked in quick time
 Method 1 

• Access Yahoo Help forum Page 
• Upon accessing Yahoo email, you will get the account locked message
• Now enter the Yahoo ID or complete email address or phone number in the Sign-in helper section
• Now enter the Yahoo account key sent on recovery email address or phone number before it gets too late.
• Follow the steps properly and you will be able to regain access of yahoo inbox dashboard in quick time.

 Method 2: Access Yahoo Email Account in other device

Try accessing Yahoo account in other device as there is a possibility of accumulation of cookies or caches is preventing you to access Yahoo account on a particular device. In case you are successful doing it, flush out cookies and caches form the device and restart it once it is done. We are sure; you will be able to access yahoo account by now.

 Method 3: Remove and Setup Yahoo account in Outlook and Thunderbird 

Yahoo account may have been locked due to the improper setup of POP or IMAP server details in Outlook and Thunderbird. In order to get this problem fixed and unlock Yahoo account, just remove the Yahoo email account details from Outlook and Thunderbird and again setup the same by entering the correct server details.

We hope that above-mentioned methods may help you a lot in getting Yahoo mail account locked in minutes. If the methods don’t work you have no other option other than waiting for 12 hours which is a loose set time of account lock down. 

In case of any problem, you can also contact techies at third-party customer service providers to get this troublesome issues fixed in minutes just by dialing Yahoo technical support number.

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