Well, the husband told me they tried to contact Yahoo but couldn't get a hold of anybody ... ran into a brick wall. The account was used by his wife, who is Filipino and likely used the account mostly to communicate with family back home. So:

A. anybody who helped me recover the password could themselves look in the account and see firsthand that what I've said is true.
B. Likely if they don't speak tagalog most of the mail in the account will be unintelligible anyways.
C. It sounds like an old account, and the couple/lady likely did not change their password often, so if this account was part of some big hack some time ago, the e-mail/password combination might be floating around out there on the dark markets.

Never mind, it doesn't sound like anyone here has a clue, just want to chatter up their sig campaign.