For over a decade I refused to give Google a phone number. Eventually they locked me out and demanded that I verify my account via SMS using a landline telepho

For over a decade I refused to give Google a phone number. Eventually they locked me out and demanded that I verify my account via SMS using a landline telephone number I hadn't had access to in over 8 years. Obviously since this was a landline, I could not possibly have given them this phone number for verification purposes and forgotten that I had done so. Evidently they scraped the phone number out of my email; I'd had PacBell e-bills emailed to that gmail address. Google is unreliable.