As I do practically every morning along with millions of others around the world, I logged into my Yahoo.com email account to check mail. To my chagrin, I was unable to login, and to make matters worse, my user ID/password combination wasn't recognized by the system. My first thoughts were "CAPS LOCK," or forgotten (which I rarely do) password , or hacked, or TOS violations (on what basis??) or corrupted cookies – who the heck knows. Then I decided to have my password recovered to an alternate email address (gmail), but I was still darn sure I knew my password. For “you know what and grins,” I made an attempt to recover it. But my user ID wasn't even recognized by the system. Here is the message I received after entering my user ID and answering a question about ever using a credit card or not.
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Sorry That You're Having Trouble Signing In
We know that not being able to sign in can be frustrating, so we'll try to make this as quick and easy as possible. To get started, enter your Yahoo! ID and let us know if you've ever used a credit card with Yahoo!.
FEATURE_ERROR_USER_OPEN_NO_ACCESS
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I wasn't too sure what the aforementioned cryptic error message was all about but it didn't look promising.
So I decided to recreate the email account, maybe there was a simple glitch in the system. No joy because it's not available. Someone else is using it - Yes, it's ME!
After traversing Yahoo’s help pages for awhile, I finally found the customer care form and submitted my problem. I let them know the account was tied to my PAID Yahoo MyBlogLog Account (for meta data and stats) and I was NOT spamming or using the account for any illicit activities, so I asked them to please explain why my account has disappeared into the ether.
After all that, I tried logging in again but no joy.
So now I decided it was time to Google for the answer. Here is what I found from Yahoo's answers via the Google index.
“the solution for this problem is to go to the yahoo! India web page and try logging in through that ..........”
So I brought up the yahoo.co.in homepage and grudgingly logged in. Whoa! It worked.