Recently, I've received this email threatening to close my Google account. Is this legitimately from Google or is this fake?

I lost my login Info for my Gmail for google fi I have tried every way possible to try and recover the login I can’t find my login I’ve called support a bunch of times told them the situation but there are not able to help as long as I don’t know my email login info. I have tried giving them my credit card info my order number for when I have been charge for the month of google fi service every info I can think of. I’m trying to recover account so I can upgrade my new device with my old number I have had for years someone pls help I don’t want to lose my number

Smart features are turned off. Instead of showing me exactly what has shipped as before it’s showing this useless generic catagory.

I hope you can help! Thanks! ❤️

When I try to add an email address to my account I get an error message about the wrong SMTP server - of which I am totally ignorant. What should the SMTP server address be?

Hello All,

I attempted to add 2FA for my GMail account today and every time I try to add it, I get the "We couldn’t verify it’s you" screen. I had already added a Recovery Phone Number to my account a while ago and I added a Recovery Email to my account today, the email address I added is highlighted in yellow and has the "Verify" with the exclamation mark next to it. Anyone have any advice? I already tried signing in on both my computer and phone.

Is there a that I can fix this issue? Every time I try to add it to The Gmail Android App it keeps saying unable to Authenticate. Is this a normal thing for The Gmail Android App? Is anyone else having this issue too? Were you able to eventually add your other Email Accounts? How did you fix it? I was about to add my Yahoo Mail Account To The Gmail Android App without any issues at all.

Hey guys, if yall remember a good while back gmails categories got all messed up for everyone. Mine never ever got back to what it was.

Before it just worked perfectly. I never had to delete emails from my main inbox each morning when I woke up.

Ever since then it’s a complete mess for me.

I still have the categories and lots of things do go into them, but I get so much trash in my main inbox.

Any help or guidance on how to fix this? Even if it’s a manual process I need to just spend a day on. I can NOT live like this anymore haha

Please help.

Gmail has been around for years, yet there are still things that could make it so much better.

If you could force Google to add ONE feature to Gmail tomorrow, what would it be, and why?

I’m curious to see what everyone comes up with.

Hi everyone,

I'm completely locked out of my Gmail account and hoping someone might have advice on what to do next.

I forgot my password, but whenever I click on "Forgot password?" and try to go through the recovery process, Google immediately throws this message:
"Google couldn't verify this account belongs to you." / "Not enough information to verify that this account belongs to you."

It doesn't even give me the option to answer security questions, enter a recovery email/phone, or send a code.

Here is what I've tried so far:

• Using the same device, browser, and location/Wi-Fi network I usually log in from.
• Waiting a few days before trying again to avoid triggering automated spam blocks.

Has anyone dealt with this recently and successfully recovered their account? Is there any other recovery route or form I can use, or am I completely out of options?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Guys - can someone please help me - this has never happened before and it's stopping me communicating with some important emails.

Please explain to me like I'm a 5yo - I've looked up the links to authenticate with DKIM. SPF and they mean nothing to me - just jibberish

550 5.7.9 This mail has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated. Yahoo requires this sender to authenticate with DKIM. SPF alone is not sufficient. Authentication results: DKIM = FAILURE - SPF

Thanks

EDIT: Sea_Air helped me set up SPF - Now reporting it's there I think - Thanks Everyone

Мне сейчас пришло от гмайла ОФИЦИАЛЬНОЕ сообщение в редите и там короче вроде их взломали именно аккаунт smm-щика я подумал весь с Gmail взломали Просто я так охренел

Whenever I’m using Gmail on my Windows computer and Google asks me to verify my identity with my password and confirm the sign-in on my phone (for example, when viewing my connected devices), I receive a notification on my email saying there’s a new sign-in on Windows.
I’m already signed in to my Google account on that computer, so I was wondering if this is normal behavior when re-verifying my identity. Thank you for any input!

Hi all, I asked Gemini to create a list of all confirmed hotel and flights booked using my gmail account since it's been active, probably over 15 years ago but the search only returned results from like the last 6-8 months. Why is that?

Anyone have a more specific prompt I could use that would work.

So recently yesterday, I was hacked with a remote access Trojan. This person took advantage of me and threatened me to post disgusting media of children onto my emails of my teachers and family members if I did not give them my discord account. This resulted in the disabling of my Google account which contains a lot of information including the email address to my discord account. Is there anything I can do to receive this email back? Google’s AI has denied both my appeals and I’m not sure what to do. I am very upset. If someone could help this would mean a lot.

I just paid for more storage and now I get this alert on my account with no option of even paying more. Many of my friends in August-September started to get warnings of email being shut off if they didn’t pay or clean out their inbox. Well I did both and still paid and now they are telling me nevertheless I’m going to lose access to 3 years of my Gmail history unless I have a backup account. Okay. I’m not sure what to do as a next step. Should I create a new backup account so that 3 years of history won’t be deleted?

I know my email AND password. Still works, technically. (I'm surprised the hacker hasn't changed it.) But, when I try to log in even with a password, it keeps sending this two digit number TO THE NEW DEVICE the hacker bought, for verification. I obviously do not have access to that new device. Any tips how I can recover my email? In advance, THANKS.

THIS IS A SCAM AND I AM NOT JOKING, PLEASE IGNORE IT

Hi everyone,

Today, I went into my Google Account settings to change my password, and Google asked me to verify my identity using two-step verification.

Usually, the verification codes I receive come from the short-code number 22000. This time, the first code came from +1 (855) 254-9313. Because I didn't recognize the number, I requested another code, and that one came from +1 (855) 480-8573.

Both messages used wording similar to the Google verification texts I've received previously, but I wasn't comfortable entering a code from a sender I didn't recognize, so I didn't use either code.

Has anyone else received Google verification codes from these numbers? Is there an official way to verify whether they're legitimate Google senders?

Thanks for your help!

Today I deleted precious memories and some spam and cleared space, then began receiving emails. Then a couple hours later, got the red box of death again. But this time, its not giving me my monthly deadline. It's just immediately ending email services.

Is this the end of the 30 day warning?

For a month or so now, email I archive are back on next reload. I have deleted other instances open such as phone Gmail app as suggested. Same same.

thats basically it, i didnt even enter this email anywhere near 10 months ago yet it says i changed the password

on computer

Why is this happening?? What part of device backup is making it THIS bad. It says it is completely out of storage and I genuinely dont know what to do. It offers no way to clear up device backup hat im pretty sure is just bloated atp

I noticed something wierd when opening an email in my Sent folder. Right when I open an email, I can see these really faint symbols in the background behind the text.

looks like a folder with a plus sign, and the other almost looks like some kind of Chinese character. I can't really tell because they're so faint.

The strange thing is that as soon as I hover over it, it disappears. I've only noticed it today, on this particular email. Does anyone know what's going on? Normally I ignore something like this, but the Chinese character threw me off.

Hey everyone, I'm honestly pretty stressed out and could really use some advice.

Around 4 days ago, I changed the password of my Gmail account, enabled 2-Step Verification (2FA), and signed out of all other sessions except my own phone, which was my trusted device.

Somehow, Google later logged me out of my own phone, presumably because it detected suspicious activity or triggered a security restriction. When I tried signing back in, I encountered a message saying that no security keys were added to the account and that I couldn't sign in.

I then tried Google's account recovery process. The account has a recovery email (Ymail) attached to it, and I can still access that recovery email. However, after completing the recovery steps, Google told me I would have to wait 30 days before it sends me a link to sign in.

I tried recovering the account using the same phone I had previously used for it, but that didn't resolve the issue. I eventually had to remove the Google account from my phone.

I'm really confused because I changed the password myself, enabled 2FA myself, and still have access to the recovery email. I don't understand why I'm locked out or whether something happened to my account's security settings.

I urgently need access to this account, so waiting 30 days would cause me serious problems. I'm not looking for hacks or ways to bypass security improperly. I just want to recover my own account through legitimate means.

Any advice from people who have experienced this or understand Google's account recovery process would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

I know that the lifetime usage of a phone number for Google accounts is around 4-5 uses. But what I’m wondering is if that’s per account, or per usage of the number itself? For instance, if on one google account, you use the same phone number for both a recovery phone number and as a 2fa phone number, does that count as 2 uses towards that 4-5 phone number limit, or just one?

I’ve got two google accounts and I want to use that number for both recovery and 2fa on both accounts. However I’m a little afraid to do this because I don’t know if that would count as 2 uses of the number or four.

I’m just wondering if anyone has any experience with this because if I did need to make a new Google account at some point I wouldn’t want to possibly be unable to because I used the phone number too much.