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Have you considered calling the number tied to the account and asking them to help?
by dencodev 6y ago
Have you considered calling the number tied to the account and asking them to help?
- jabo 6y agoIIRC only the last 4 digits of the phone number are shown.
- davidmurdoch 6y agoThey only show the last two digits of the number. And I've only ever had two phone numbers in my life, and neither of them end with those digits.
- ncann 6y agoPlus it is always a bad idea to give someone a code sent to your number. 99% of the time someone is trying to hack you and a necessary step is obtaining that code.
- kuschku 6y agoFor me that actually ended up the only way to gain access back to an old account of mine. Luckily I was able to cooperate with the new owner of the number, and he was helpful enough to give me the code that was sent, otherwise I'd have lost a Google account with several hundred euros of purchases on it, despite having the password, control of the backup email, knowing all security questions, and knowing the exact date the account was registered (the only issue was that mobile carriers here re-issue phone numbers after 6 months without any calls, and I had put the SIM into a tablet).
- judge2020 6y agoThe obvious issue with this is that the new owner of the number doesn't actually know if it's the owner of the old account trying to sign into it - it could be anyone trying to take over an account whos owner forgot to change the number for. And how do they know you're not trying to sign into their account? The text messages don't specify which account is being attempted or anything.
- kuschku 6y agoThat's actually the big issue — but if you can meet with the person, and do the whole process IRL, it's much less risky.