Locked out of my 2017 Fortnite account because of 2fa on a throwaway email I can’t access, denied twice, running out of options
Hey, hoping someone here has dealt with this. I’ve had my account since 2017, only ever played on Xbox, thousands of hours, a lot of OG stuff on it.
Back in 2020 a friend made a throwaway Gmail just for my 2FA when we were kids. Neither of us can get into that Gmail anymore — the iPad it was set up on got wiped, and Google account recovery won’t verify it’s mine. So every time I try to sign in, the 2FA code goes to an inbox I can’t reach.
I’ve submitted two account recovery requests and both got denied (the appeal said it looked like account sharing and that only the email’s “creator” can move it forward). I have Fortnite purchase receipts from my Xbox going back to March 2018, plus a V-Bucks order from 2021, my gamertag, the cards I used, all of it — but without control of the email, nothing gets me in. Support says they can’t manually override.
On top of it, after all the recovery attempts, Fortnite logged me out on my Xbox and now forces me to link an account through epicgames.com/activate, so I can’t even play on console anymore without signing in (which I can’t do).
Has anyone actually gotten an OG account back in this exact situation — locked out by 2FA on a dead email you can’t recover? Any path that worked? I’d really appreciate anything. Thanks.