Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

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.