r/GMail

I keep getting these Snapchat password reset emails and random phishing attempts tied to the same email, ignored them but it has been happening enough lately that I'm really worried about my account or email getting compromised. Haven't clicked any of them and I've changed my password two times already.

I don’t even know if someone is trying to get into my account and how they got my email or even know my snap is connected. Has anyone dealt with this? wth is happening

I refuse to activate the smart feature because I do not want the AI function.
I've been unsubscribing from absolutely eveything. Before, I didn't hesitate to join a newsletter knowing I'd be able to look at those when I feel like shopping without having it cluttered my inbox.
Now my inbox is absolutely unusable.

I genuinely hope this becomes the trend - maybe then the e-commerce will put pressure on google to stop with the non sense since it will cost them money.

Gemini (within Gmail on my chrome browser) just updated yesterday and the user experience is a major downgrade imo.

- the polish feature overwrites what I have drafted in the email body instead of suggesting a new version in another box, which I could copy and paste all or some of it into the body of he email.
- the polish feature removes hyperlinks, formatting and tables I have added in the email body
- sometimes the Gemini box covers the body of the email so I can’t see what’s behind it.

Overall, I like the update features much less than I did just three days ago. I hope they revert.

genuine fork i'm at. Last 3 months i trained wingman whatsapp ai on my email patterns. it now drafts replies in my voice, sorts incoming mail, flags what matters. i still review every draft before send. the next step is to just... let it send.

No review. delete the spam, reply to the routine stuff ("sounds good, see you tuesday"), escalate only the important ones. Half my brain says this is literally the point of an assistant. you don't audit your human assistant's every email. you trust them.

has anyone here gone fully autonomous on inbox? what blew up, what worked?

I just changed my password to login on fh6. And it keeps saying password wrong, logged in on my phone with the new password no problem. I hate google

Hey fellas

Currently running a business where i manage job applications on clients behalf in various industries.

One of my requirements for the service is the client creating either a gmail or outlook e-mail account, share their credentials and i fully manage it (can't create personal domains because recruiters automatically discard applicants if using them)

I'm aware of the delegation option for gmail but unfortunately i can't allow my clients to have access to their account until completion of service (had a few cases of people interacting with recruiters and breaching contract)

The question is, is there a reliable way to create multiple gmail accounts (i can have the clients creating them) and avoid being flagged and blocked out of them?

We keep encountering issues related to phone number verification and device flagging.

Any info or help would be highly appreciated

Gmail hesabım pakistanlılar tarafından çalındı ve telefonunumu sıfırladılar şimdi hesaba erişemiyorum tüm kurtarma bilgilerini değiştirmişler içinde adıma açılmış geliştirici hesabı vardı. Google cihazımı tanımıyor ve muhattap bulamıyorum bilgisi olan yardımcı olursa sevinirim

For a few years now on and off I seem to get emails for someone with the same name as me in the US. (I’m uk)

I’ve had my email since gmail was in beta around 22 years ago , they shouldn’t have been given it on that basis as it would have gone.

I tried initially to send back to where they came from and say there is an error in their email and also warn them they were sending personal info to wrong person like addresses!

Never get any response.

But I’m also thinking is anyone else getting my Email?

Anyone had anything similar before and took it up with Google?

If indeed they have a contactable support function

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Last Thursday, I used a public computer at a copy shop/copy center. I logged into an old Gmail account. On the following Monday afternoon, a 2FA notification appeared on my phone saying there had been a login attempt from my city. I found it strange and thought it might be a bug, but, just in case, I clicked “Don’t Allow.”

Later that night, there was another attempt, but I was asleep and only saw it about 20 minutes later when I woke up to pee. There was a push notification on my phone (if I remember correctly, it was from Nevada, and I live on another continent), and there was also a “Critical Security Alert” email in both the attacked account and my recovery account. The email said that someone had used my password, but Google blocked the attempt. I think Google blocked it because I took too long to approve/deny the request on my phone through 2FA, since I was asleep.

Why do I think it was a keylogger from the copy shop computer? This email account is associated with almost nothing, only Uber, and I don’t even use it. It stays logged into my PC and phone, so I don’t have to constantly log in and out. The only unusual thing I had done in the previous days was logging into that account on this public PC using Chrome’s incognito mode. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, because I didn’t access anything suspicious, download anything, click on anything, or create any accounts on websites. The only different thing involving this account was using it on that public computer.

I already asked Gemini, ChatGPT, and Google AI Mode, and all of them said that I’m safe and that the hacker never gained access.

The problem is that I suffer from severe OCD, and even so, I still feel like my PC and phone are “contaminated.” The AIs say there would be no way for a keylogger to jump to my PC or phone, because they never actually gained access to my account. I just want to be sure that they really were blocked and that’s it.

When this happened, still during the night, I changed the passwords for both the attacked Gmail account and the recovery Gmail account. Later that same afternoon, I decided to delete the attacked account entirely (I wasn’t using it for anything anyway, so I just deleted it). I also made sure there were no files in the Drive or emails in the inbox. I know that, theoretically, they never got into the account, but I checked anyway just in case they had managed to access it.

How I know the alert was legitimate:
1 - It arrived in my recovery email account.
2 - It arrived in the attacked account itself.
3 - I received the push notification on my phone.
4 - When the email is in the inbox and you hover over it, there is that “review activity” option that appears on emails genuinely sent by Google regarding login attempts on your account.

What I want with this post? I want to understand what really happened, I want to know if my devices are safe...

I am a pretty much wreck over this one. If im understanding correctly, Google after two years of inactivity, disables or shuts an accoount down, correct ? I have known this for ehhh, over a year and a half now, and i know it's going on almost exactly two years since i last was able to log in to two of my googles . It's problems with the DUMB two factor auth. bs.and let me tell you . it's literally been causing me T anxiety on the DAILY for a while now ..The thought that it's probably been a little over 2 yrs. Now paired with the thought that I could have already lost literally my little family and I's entire digital footprint since 2011, and our FAMILY ALBUM OF MORE 15 YRS. & roughly 60,000 accumulated pictures and videos.... really just hurts me to my core..... Now before any body else goes on to say some shitty little sarcastic riddled better-than-everybody else comments, yes i understand. If i didnt want this to happen i should have simply kept my authenticators authetic . Haha! Well the world(and me) being the imperfect place that it is...... this or that happened and i was unable to update my phone number to a new one before the phone linked with my gmail completely was obliterated..and along with a few other unfortunate recovery issues, i was screwed out of logging onto either account... it really is upsetting to me and im just looking for an opinipn or some advice maybe a suggestion on how i should go about regianing access........ I understand a lot of you probably feel differently like theres plenty bigger fish in the sea and problems to.focus on, but unfortunately for me, my pictures mean the world to me..they are irreplaceable memories. Ill never be able to hold my newborn son again or hold my grandpa's hand as he takes his last breath i can't get any of those moments back. But my pictures will always be there to remind me..

Unfortunately, I made some avoidable mistakes that now could cost me something that means a lot to me..but fortunately, at least i.did learn a lesson..... definitely always keep two factor authentication turned ALL the way off 😃🙃lool. Screw that shit I don't care for it at all. My passwords will forever be strong enough 😅😇🙄🙄😪 HOWEVER, If you could offer some advice or a solution or think you know how I could go about getting into the account , lmk!

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I have an @gmail account, and i recently discovered that sending an email to my gmail address, but changing the gmail.com part to googlemail.com, i get an email from myself on my inbox (with the @googlemail ending).

So its pretty much the same thing? I'm asking here since i plan to using those as different email for free trials and categorizing my emails.

Now I know this question has already been asked multiple times here, but in my case, I created a new Google account since I was having issues with my Adsense getting approved so I decided to create a new Google account. As soon as I created it I created an Adsense account and linked it to my yt channel on another account. Now after a few minutes the google account got locked. I submitted an appeal and got it back within a day and now whenever I try to sign in as soon as I enter my phone number or click “send code” I immediately get the too many failed attempts error. I waited for 24 hours first, tried and failed, then 48 hours, then 72 hours and today I tried after 7 complete days of gap and still it persists. I’m so lost. Also I’ve seen somewhere on this sub Reddit, a guy mention about him facing the same issue for 2 months, but apparently when he raised a ticket with Google it was fixed, it just needs manual approval. Now if anyone knows anything about this ticket or an other solution please help me out since even my yt monetisation has come to a pause as the Adsense was linked to this email.

This post is probably better served on Datahoarder. But a thought occurred after reading some horror stories of those who have lost account access - some who were Gmail account holders for more than a decade or two.

-I already archive my email locally with MailStore, and I have those files backed up in various places. The email archiving is done 1x day, every day, via an automated script. So, I rarely have to think about that. I do the same thing with Chrome bookmarks. They're synced. But I use a script that exports bookmarks every 3 days to a local folder (which itself is backed up elsewhere).

-I will also occasionally (every 6 months or so) export with Takeout in the highest fidelity settings and formats available. Anything pushed to Photos or Drive is also sitting locally on my desktop, and that data, too, is backed up. Yes - I'm aware that Takeout is not exactly perfect.

I don't necessarily have anything important from the PlayStore, aside from apps that I use, and then use my Gmail email to sign into those with. Any transaction history would likely be included in Takeout.

-But "Sign in with Google" dependencies would be annoying to lose access. And it would be a good idea if I audited just what's using that and how many, assuming recovery options for those services/sites/apps would not be sufficient enough to regain access without the email address.

Thing I am less sure about:

-Gmail settings, not just Gmail messages: Labels, Filters, Blocked addresses, Send mail as/aliases, POP/IMAP settings, etc.

-Any devices I have associated with said Google account. Obviously, any device/phone backups, call & sms history (I presume that would be in Takeout, though, I think?) I don't know what exactly I would do with the phone backup data from Takeout/how I would import that or make use of it.

I'm wondering if it would be wise to set up a separate email account on a different provider where all email from Gmail is automatically forwarded to the secondary email address. E.g., if a Gmail account is suddenly restricted or deactivated, does the user continue to receive new emails, or do they bounce back? If there's anything else I should be doing, I'd welcome the feedback. Thanks!

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Yes,, using windows 7 for real work and this limits my chrome version.. I can boot to 10/11 if needed.

Issue, I have a Gmail attached to my Google account and it was never used. It was for a volunteer project years ago. I use Mail.com for all my accounts, so my Google services is set up with my chris****@mail.com email.

Anyway, this old GMAIL is forever attempting to be my primary and replace my mail.com. When i click an email link on a webpage it prompts me to make the defunct email my primary.

How can i simply Delete this or at least replace it with a new gmail. I have been through AI and nothing works, gone through hours of BS online can can't figure it out.

Thanks you,

Chris

Has anyone else received an email invite from Punchbowl? I did and I attempted to open it and it immediately sent infected emails to my contacts. Google shutdown my account and I can't get them to restore. None of my info was stolen. They are getting more sophisticated now.. So scary