Screaming Penguin

If you pay with a credit card,paerhaps if you can give the credit card number to Yahoo, they will know it is you and change the password. If that doesn't work, contact the credit card company and let them know that you accout had been breached. They may contact Yahoo for you. Change the credit card number. If nothing else the account will be disabled for non payment eventually.

Also contact AOL.

That is intellectual property. Taking your property with the intent of depriving you of the use of it is conversion. A civil wrong and criminal offense. The ISP may even be an accomplice because they have been instrumental in your continued inability to use your own property.

This thread dates to about the time my entire paid-for website (and my user-id namorado.geo) of ten years' duration ___Casa___do___Namorado___ http://geocities.com/namorado.geo was removed. Yahoo!, of course, makes it nearly impossible to communicate with them (there is no web page I can find with personal e-mails or any listing of real humans you can contact; their "Customer Care" page is an oxymoron). I tried for hours to wade through their multiple layers of touch-tone menus to get a "live" person who would answer two simple questions: 1. If there was a legal complaint against any of my hundred-odd pages of content, where is the page URL and what is the specific content alleged to be in violation of the T.o.S.? and, 2. rather than take down the entire website, would Yahoo! please re-enable my log-in i.d. so I could remove the complaint? I have repeatedly given them my name Al?n Al?n Apurim, e-mail apurim@dr.com, and telephone 713-264-7869, but have gotten (initially) only form letters telling me to read the (vague all-inclusive proprietary) Terms of Service page, or no answer at all. My Geocities page pre-dates by three years Yahoo!'s buying them out in 1999, and contained many useful topic pages (weather, computing, science, various countries' info, etc.) as well as my r?sum?. All gone, without expplanation. Suggestions or connections that would get me to people who would help me restore it would be appreciated.

Yahoo! sucks and I wholeheartedly agree! I had an email account with them for over 10 years. Never once did I forget my password, seeing as I used it almost every day. Recently, Yahoo changed their log in process to require adding the domain into the log in ID box. For some reason, this caused a glitch in my account preventing me from logging in. I contact them, they ask for my personal info. So, I give them as much as I can remember, seeing as I entered it 10 years ago, and of course, gave them something incorrectly. After the back and forth with proving who I am since July '08, I STILL have not been allowed into my email account. HELLO? It was YAHOO's FAULT that I couldn't get in!! I didn't forget anything. You wouldn't believe the mindless banter, scripted responses and blatant disregard for what I was asking in my emails. They had once even asked for contact names and folder names to prove I am me, which I GAVE!! I am like you with being wronged...I will never use Yahoo again, not even as a search engine. I've never been so annoyed. I have high school friends that I only know their email, gone..photos of them and their kids, gone. Personal receipts and site registrations, all gone. I HATE YAHOO!!!!!

Yahoo has probably the worst privacy policy ever, yahoo Toolbar is even worse, and worse yet they try to trick you into installing it every chance they get.
Here's a short write-up that describes why I hate yahoo:
http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2008/12/03/geek-review-get-web-ema...