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Why switching an account to Japanese make it harder for the owner to get it back?
by ojosilva 8y ago
Why switching an account to Japanese make it harder for the owner to get it back?
- azernik 8y agoMy guess? It moves the responsibility for the account to a different bureaucracy (international vs. domestic).
- tyingq 8y agoI found the forum that the article was talking about, and the how-to article. Using the Google cache, since they've altered the forum to make you register to see content: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nVHhLB6UJykJ:https://ogusers.com/Thread-How-To-Secure-a-PSN+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nVHhLB... Sounds like the suggestion is to first change the email from the original owner's to yours. Then, sign up the original owner's email as a Japanese account.
- callahad 8y agoI had similar happen with my XBox Live account seven years ago: the attacker bought $125 in Microsoft Points using the associated credit card and then immediately transferred the account to Russia under a new email address. At the time, Microsoft's customer service told me it was impossible for them to return accounts that had been moved internationally. They claimed that they literally didn't have the technical ability to do so, but that they'd file a ticket with engineering. I figured the account was gone. To my great surprise, three months later I got CC'd on an email from an engineer closing the ticket, followed by an email from Microsoft customer support with temporary account credentials to reclaim the username. And... that was that. No further follow-up, just "we fixed the system, and now we can transfer your account back to you."