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related...I had an old google account stolen from me a few weeks ago. this happened on April 8th while I was sleeping (I received recovery emails etc -- everyt
by fosco 6y ago
related...I had an old google account stolen from me a few weeks ago.
this happened on April 8th while I was sleeping (I received recovery emails etc -- everything was changed by the time I woke up)
this old account had an auto-forward for all emails to another email so for the first week whomever stole it was not aware everything was copied to my other account. I tried going through googles account recovery and unfortunately it appears that I will not be receiving this account back, I am sad because I did not copy all email locally and have lost some very old emails -- trhis account was made when gmail was still beta with an actual 'invite'.
what is surprising is how obviously it is fraud based on the emails I received over the next few days the owner had different names for a handful of people i.e. 'Hi Chinh' or 'hello Hau' (many others as well)
I kept these because apparently google is investigating and I've been told to be patient due to covid-19 delays but I suspect I got lost in the pile of other work. it is not a big deal in the long run just makes me sad that clearly I did not do enough to protect this account and there is not a human on my behalf looking... any person looking at this (if google admins can) would come to the very quick conclusion it is clear that it was stolen.