u/ShatterMental

I tried to make a Microsoft account with an email address I own. It told me that the account already exist, so I figured that I created one long time ago and have forgotten about it. But when I go to recover password, it is linked to an entirely different email address, despite the fact that the login still uses my email address. I also do not recognize the phone number, so this is clearly a different person who owns this account.

I did a lot of digging, but there's nothing in Microsoft's help pages that address this situation, and while I did find a bunch of posts asking for help with situations very similar to mine, all of them simply had "there's no way an account could have been created without confirmation"

I don't care about whoever's account that is - but I would like to create an account with MY email address, but there doesn't seem to be any way for me to do that. So do I just have to live with the fact that there's an account using the email address that I own and use a different address?

I am trying to regain access to my old Instagram account - I know the account has not been compromised yet, as I don't see any activities and I still get stories notifications via email.

However, nothing shows up in my inbox when I try to get Instagram to send me a password reset email. I get the message that an email has been sent to my address, I have checked the spam folder, I made sure there's no filters set... and yet, nothing.

Is there some other way I can get access to my account?

I am trying to regain access to my old Instagram account - I know the account has not been compromised yet, as I don't see any activities and I still get stories notifications via email.

However, nothing shows up in my inbox when I try to get Instagram to send me a password reset email. I get the message that an email has been sent to my address, I have checked the spam folder, I made sure there's no filters set... and yet, nothing.

Is there some other way I can get access to my account?