Chuck(G)
25k Member
A couple of years ago, I created a gmail account that I use rarely, linked to a Google voice number.
I decided to check the account settings; entered the email address and password and got the "Verify that this is really you".
The method is to send a text or voice to a recovery number. I gave up the phone with the recovery number a year ago.
The Gmail community support must have 80 or so people who say the same. You can't log into the account until you get a number from your recovery phone, so you can't change your recovery phone number. I can't even delete the account. So there it is, a zombie account forwarding email...
What idiot thinks these things up? FWIW, I've forwarded all of the incoming mail to another email address, so I'm not losing any mail. Just marveling at the boneheaded stupidity of the bright kids at Google.
I decided to check the account settings; entered the email address and password and got the "Verify that this is really you".
The method is to send a text or voice to a recovery number. I gave up the phone with the recovery number a year ago.
The Gmail community support must have 80 or so people who say the same. You can't log into the account until you get a number from your recovery phone, so you can't change your recovery phone number. I can't even delete the account. So there it is, a zombie account forwarding email...
What idiot thinks these things up? FWIW, I've forwarded all of the incoming mail to another email address, so I'm not losing any mail. Just marveling at the boneheaded stupidity of the bright kids at Google.