I think it’s time to make google/google users realize this. The only reason this doesn’t come up that much is the proportion of people losing their accounts everyday is miniscule.

Gah, I hope you’ve ‘recovered’ from the loss.

Well, after filling out a form over and over again, they keep saying that i didn’t provide enough information for them to reinstate the account to me. I even know the day I opened the account 4 years ago. Not enough, there isn’t the usual security questions, rather, they ask, when did you first use their calendar program, their picasso program, etc, etc, All these accoutns are now gone as well. All my photos that I uploaded to the web are gone.

I am distraught and cannot believe that a company that is bigger than the auto makers combined, and US Steel, etc, etc, cannot provide a bit of relief or help.

If anyone knows how to resolve this issue, I’d love to hear how.

Also if you don’t fill in personal details on your registration it makes it difficult to get your account reactivated when things go wrong

1 It was some one els using something like a key logger. But that doesn’t make sense as all the important passwords haven’t been comprimised. But I have shut down access to bank accounts so unless they are a WOW gold farmer perhaps they no longer have access to the things they wanted access to and i’ve still been compromised.

2 I wondered whether GMail gave this guy access. My associated email account was no longer active. This guy has listed my email address as his for job applications. On websites were he is a sporting training for a national side. Applications with bank accounts. I guessed that if he can make the mistake that many times perhaps he did the same with google when he was trying reinstate his gmail account after he lost his password.

He got it wrong recently with a job application which was forwarded on to him. I received an important email from the national sporting body which I just deleted. Perhaps he was driven to action after missing so many emails that i stopped forwarding.

Really I’m not sure.

It doesn’t make sense. The password I was entering was the correct one. I knew it was at the time but when it fails you question your memory. I confirmed this on my work PC where the password was stored within firefox

What I fail to understand is why they would change residential address details.

I haven’t heard anything from google yet. Other than they investigated my report and have associated my work email with the account.