How do you report a scam artist who uses a yahoo based email account?

Josh: How do you report a scam artist who uses a yahoo based email account?
After looking on Craigslist, I found a car offered that I asked for more info via email. I wish to report that I found the person to be a scam artist using a Yahoo email account. How can I do that?

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Answer by Buffy Staffordshire
Alerting yahoo that the email is being used by a scammer will accomplish nothing.

The scammer will keep scamming with another of his dozens of free email addresses and fake names. Shutting one will not slow in the least, in fact, just the opposite is true. Closing an account can actually sped a scam along, all the scammer has to do is use another of his accounts to say to his victim is “see, the bad guys are after me, my email account is closed, send your money fast so I can get out of this bad situation”.

Posting a scammer’s email address and the emails themselves on every scam-busting site you can find is great way to actually slow that scammer down. A suspicious potential victim will find your post by googling for information and then not become a victim because you took the time to ‘get the word out’. There are several scam-warning-anti-fraud-busting sites that would love to add that scammer to their collections.