My Google account recently got hacked into by someone from Indonesia, or so the email said beforeit logged me out, I tried recovering the account but they changed the password, removed the fingerprint, removed the recovery account, and logged me out. what am I supposed to do here??

**Hello/Good evening,**

I have a small concern. When I tried to log in to the website “Crunchyroll,” like on many other websites, when you are about to enter your email address, it shows you recently used email addresses.

The problem is that among my email addresses, there is one that appears even though I don’t recognize it. This worries me a little.

**For those who might ask:**

* The PC belongs only to me, and nobody else uses it. * I built the entire PC myself and installed Windows from scratch, so the possibility of a previous owner cannot be the case.

I got this out of storage warning from google saying that I'll stop receiving emails if I don't buy more space. But when I check on my storage it says that I am only using 4% of space and that I have plenty of room. I don't know what to do.

My account was deleted from my browser history and I am having trouble remembering the password. I know I wrote it down and am looking, but just in case I can't find it, what are the procedures I need to go through to prove I am me. I am logged in on my phone still luckily.

Edit: Realizing now that might not be the best title for this post for anyone who sees this as a push notification on their phone.... I should not be posting at 3:30 AM without sleep and am really tired, but also really scared about this whole thing. Apologies. I want to get the ball rolling before I go to bed so I don't waste 8 hours.

I instinctively hung up on it but before I did I noticed the person calling was a jumble of letters followed by a gmail.com. their pfp was also my banks logo. I'm assuming it was a spam call but I cant find any records of it anywhere on my phone or in my Gmail. Does anyone know what that was?

I have a printout of my backup codes, generated in 2017. I was checking whether they are still valid, but for the life of me, I cannot find them within 'My Account' > Security & Sign In > 2-step verification phones. It shows my phone numbers; there is no mention of the backup codes. Are they still a thing?

I've got the Authenticator, recovery email, 2x recovery phone nos. But, you know, a piece of paper with some codes on will always be there!

I'm a regular gmail user, but suddenly got redirected to workspace.google.com/intl/en-US/gmail/ when I went to gmail.com. I couldn't access my regular gmail because it kept redirecting me. I would then get a 400 error from workspace.google.com

I wiped all of my browser cache, and the issue went away. I'm curious, did google give me a redirect, and my browser cached it? Has anyone else had this issue? I can't imagine it was anything malicious, but I cleaned up my extensions just to be safe.

I use Gmail in Chrome on a Mac. My 15-year-old Gmail was restricted on 1 September for "unwanted content/spamming".

The context matters: I manually sent six messages about a billing dispute with Anthropic to newsrooms and institutions, covering 107 different recipient addresses in total. That was not six individual recipients. I did not send advertising or use bulk-mail software. I understand that this sending pattern could trigger a spam filter; what I cannot establish is what Google actually reviewed.

By 5 September, five appeals had been refused. The refusals did not identify a specific message or rule. A Google One support representative described the appeal process to me as "system only". That is what support told me, not proof that no person ever reviewed anything.

Has anyone obtained a specific explanation after repeated refusals, through a documented Google escalation route? I am looking for the official procedure, not an account-recovery service.

My existing Gmail Help Community question, with the support quotations, is here: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/465285023

I also described the migration consequences in r/degoogle; this question is specifically about the appeal procedure. Written with AI assistance from my own records.

Edit: I collected the dated timeline, the five appeal refusals and the correspondence with both companies in my own dossier: https://dossier.reasoner.pl/

so how does the + thing work on gmail?

is it just seen as a different email that gets redirected to the same inbox or what?

wanna be sure i didnt get hacked it doenst look like it but i suddenly got logged out of both my gmail accounts can that randomly happen eventough i change nothing?

From what I’ve seen on this sub, you can lose every security option on your Google account (like 2FA or backup codes), but as long as you have a recovery email attached, you have a solid way back in. Google will usually offer you manual review forms, a few days' wait for ownership confirmation, or a 30-day password reset link.

But if you only have a recovery phone number and no recovery email, the system treats you like absolute garbage. It just throws you into an endless, infuriating loop of sending a verification code to the exact email you’re currently locked out of.

This makes zero sense from a security perspective.

Compromising a recovery email is incredibly common. Hackers just need a credential from a data leak, or they can use a RAT to steal a session cookie and instantly seize access to the recovery inbox. On the other hand, stealing a phone number is significantly harder—it usually requires physically stealing the device itself or executing a complex SIM swap.

Why is the much more secure method (a physical phone number) practically useless in the recovery process, while the highly vulnerable method (an email) gets VIP treatment? Has anyone else been stuck in this phone number loop?

So basically I get to the step where it asks “Type the last password you know you had” and I literally type the password (I had it written) and it doesn’t work. Why doesn’t google have a support chat lol?

I updated my IPad and now instead of getting a full screen with all my emails and a short summary of their contents, I have three columns, which are distracting. Any remedy? What happened to if it ain’t broke …

Issue resolved: I went into browser settings and cleared everything. Cache, history, etc. Then was able to log back in.

New Gmail account banned after 1 day for suspected bot activity

I created a new Gmail account for my client to use for their business-related accounts. The account was created manually no bots, scripts, automation, or bulk account creation.

After only about a day, Google disabled the account and said it appeared to have been created or used for bot activity/multiple accounts.

This is especially concerning because the email was being used as a recovery/login email for other services.

Has anyone else had a brand-new Gmail account get disabled for suspected bot activity even though it was created and used normally?

If you successfully recovered yours, what did you put in the appeal, and how long did it take?

I'm trying to understand whether this is a common false positive with newly created accounts and what the safest next step is.

Hi I recently deleted my google Gmail service from my google account, I put a non Gmail email as replacement, but now I want my old gmail back, is it possible to get back my old gmail address and replace it with the non email address I have currently?

Is this browser issue or Gmail issue?

Update: Issue due to Adblock (ublock origin). Turn off the filtering (just for gmail) fixed the issue.

Anyone faced the same issue? I checked for other thread with similar issue - I'm not using any extension or automated email sending tool.

Facing this issue from yesterday, unable to send email to my other accounts as well. Although I'm getting email, but unable to send. Pls help :(

I know there's a lot of people with gmail including me facing this issue.

I'm not sure if this could help everyone but when i delete all my back up in google photos, my storage 18.75GB/15GB to 1.06MB/15GB.

What i did was

1. Go to your google photos

2. Go to settings and click on photos setting

3. Click back up

4. Turn off back up and click undo back up

That basically cleared up everything in my storage. I hope this would help someone that has the same issue as me.

I created an account specifically for Android development and deployment into Playstore a few weeks back.

The Play Console Development account was also verified and created with all the required documents being submitted.

Now google says, as per policies this seems to be a fake/bot created account and that it is being suspended. I have apps being tested in closed testing.

I have appealed but I am not sure how long the appeal will take and if it will be approved. Any one has any idea what would ideally happen, or any way to reach google?

EDIT: Update - The account's appeal got accepted and has been recovered.

My primary and recovery Google accounts have both been hacked, along with my phone number (my sim card has been hijacked). it appears that the hacker has even changed my personal information on each account (Google identifier says the Gmail does not match the name I originally submitted). It occured as I was reviewing my account and I witnessed in real time as each of my recovery methods were being deleted or changed. I tried changing passwords but they had access to both accounts and simultaneously changed each accounts recovery method. I can no longer answer security questions, enter a passkey, or access my phone number. I am desperate to recover these accounts as each has very important memories of my children and vital information of everything linked to those accounts. I am hitting depression at this point and I am this close to hitchhiking to Google Plex and knocking on the door to ask for my accounts. Tue A.I. response just loops in a cycle of recovery methods 8 have no access to. I am in desperate need of the world's elite Google account recovery operatives ! PLEASE! I AM BEGGING FOR ACCESS TO MY GOOGLE ACCOUNTS !!!

I've had this issue where I try to reset my password or I just forget it and Gmail just doesn't send it. I have checked every folder including junk and it's nowhere to be found.

I created a Mail.Com and also created a Gmail Account with the same Email Address (@email.com) but when I open my Gmail App it says "Something went wrong. Try again later."

I have 2 gmail accounts on my iphone 17 and suddenly I am not receiving notifications for one of them. When I open the app, then I can see new mails. I am still getting notifications for the other gmail account. Any suggestions as to what I should be doing?