[Netherrealmer]

Or your account will be locked, Here is the thing, I cleared the cookies of my browser and It forgot the password of my email,A password I dont remember. Gmail's security will not trust your alternate email accounts if you have a cellphone number attached to your account because its the phone number they trust the most.I lost that cellphone number because the sim card got ruined months ago. Now they want me wait for 3 to 5 days before I can recover my account because I use email recovery when there is a cell phone number attached to my account.

[Joseph83]

Yea.this is true. The phone number recovery shows that your are the real owner because ones email can be hacked by another.

[mrki444]

Many people forgot for it, especially is case for social media. One of reason why we can find "John Doe New Profile".

[sofs]

Yeah, that is true. Thankfully I changed my number before I discarded my account and for some reason I had to go back to my old gmail account and was able to retrieve the password because of the mobile number. Its a annoying process if you forget passwords for some old Gmail accounts.

[Netherrealmer]

Wish me luck that my problem will be solved in 5 days. My pc forgot my password the moment I cleared cookies. It is such a nuisance.

[OldGuy]

I went through a similar hassle way back when AOL was the thing. After years with the same email address and password, they suddenly sent out a demand that everyone had to change their password because they had been hacked. I changed the password, but then forgot what it was.

It had been so long since my last move that I had forgotten I had a different phone number. I was never able to retrieve that password, no matter how I tried to prove it was my own account. Nearly 20,000 contacts used that email address to reach me and I could not respond to any of them. I had to contact everyone with a new email address and convince them it was still me. It was a very expensive loss for me.

This little problem also brings up a good reason to have a private list of all your user id/password combinations, hidden someplace where the list would not be easy to find, at least by anyone other than you. Don't hide it so well you can't find it when you need it.

I happen to have lots of documents in many folders and sub folders based on different topics. I have one very long research record on an obscure topic that I no longer need, buried in a subfolder I no longer use. I went about halfway down that document to bury my list of user ids and passwords between paragraphs. If anyone stumbles over that document, they will find a long and boring document on nothing that would attract interest. They could look at the first several pages, drop to the end and look up several pages and find nothing to keep them reading.

You need to be inventive to find a good place to keep it relatively secure, but if you had such a list in a separate place, you would be back in business by now.

[Netherrealmer]

As of now my account is still locked, they are indeed serious that I have to wait for 3 to 5 days.





This is ridiculously making me Sodium chloride salty.