How to delete yahoo account?

Answer 1

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You can ignore your account for at least 4 months and it will automatically be deleted for inactivity, or you can go about deleting it yourself.

When you terminate your account, you permanently lose all saved data and Yahoo site access associated with your ID. You’ll be deleting your email account, address book, group memberships, Y!Answers account, Y!Messenger ID, any photos you’ve uploaded, any 360 blogs you’ve posted, etc. If you're sure you want to delete your account, make sure you’re logged into the account you wish to delete and then click on this link: https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_use…

Yahoo will ask you to enter your password one last time and then you will click on the "Yes, terminate this account" button. Your entire account will then be completely & irretrievably deleted.

Answer 2

You have two different ways in which you can close out your account. the first way is not to use it for 4 months and Yahoo! will deactivate it due to inactivity.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or…

The second way you need to read the "Account Deletion" page thoroughly. When you delete an account you are deleting your complete ID. So that means you are losing Yahoo! ID, Mail address, and Profile names. We will also delete your account data and settings across the Yahoo! network. This includes the contents of your HotJobs, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Address Book, Yahoo! Small Business, Yahoo! GeoCities, Yahoo! Briefcase, My Yahoo! and more. Account deletion will also terminate any paid services that you own with this yahoo id. You may not be able to recover payments remitted for these services or the data associated with these accounts.

If you would still like to terminate your account you will need to enter your password confirm your identity. You will then be asked to enter the code. Click the "Yes Terminate This Account".
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/ch…

FYI--Your Yahoo Answers will not get deleted. This acccount is not in your PC. It is kept in a totally different data system. If you would like to keep it private you can do that.
You need to click your avatar or My Profile then you click the Edit Info. There will be another page that comes you and you scroll down to Privacy and there you can select the following:
Yahoo! Answers Network
Allow other Answers users to be my fan.
On my public profile, hide my Q&A from people not in my Answers Network
On my public profile, hide my Answers Network from people who are not in it

You can then click preveiw and then ok.

Answer 3

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/acct/ho…