I accidentally sent her a weird video does pressing the trash button delete it from her account pls tell me

With no backup email, phone number? Of course you’ll be locked out.

A few weeks ago, my main Google account was compromised after I downloaded a Minecraft modpack ZIP that I now believe may have been connected to the attack.

What followed was a nightmare.

The attacker gained control of my Gmail account and, somehow, unauthorized Family Link supervision was added to the account. This created a recovery problem where I was being asked to get approval from a “parent” account that wasn't mine.

I tried the normal Google Account Recovery process repeatedly, contacted different Google and YouTube support channels, and spent days trying to prove that the account belonged to me.

Things got even worse when Google disabled the account for security reasons. A few days later, the account appeared to be recently deleted, and I was terrified that I was running out of time before it became permanently unrecoverable.

I started collecting every piece of evidence I still had:

• Old Google account recovery emails sent to my recovery address
• Evidence showing my recovery email was connected to the account
• Screenshots of my old YouTube channel
• Screenshots documenting the unauthorized Family Link supervision
• Evidence and messages surrounding the original compromise
• A timeline of everything that happened

Eventually, a support representative named Joyce told me that my case had been passed to an Account Recovery team and that they had been given my working contact email.

After waiting and honestly stressing myself out wondering whether I would ever see the account again...

I got my Gmail back.

I'm still going through everything and checking what data survived. I've also started a Google Takeout export so I can back up whatever is still available, including any remaining YouTube data.

I'm posting this because when I was going through this, I spent a lot of time searching for stories from people who had been stuck in strange recovery situations involving hacking, Family Link, disabled accounts, and deleted Google accounts.

So if you're currently stuck in a horrible account recovery situation: don't give up immediately, document everything you can, preserve old recovery emails and screenshots, and keep a clear timeline of what happened.

I'm incredibly relieved to have the account back. Now I'm working on securing it and seeing how much of my old YouTube channel and other data survived.

Honestly, after everything that happened, seeing that Gmail account accessible again felt unreal.

Couple months in late May, arly June ago I got 2 spam messages. 
At most about 5 to 7 a week.

By default they ended already in the spam folder.

I reported them as phishing using the Gmail report feature.

Shortly thereafter I got more.

I reported them using the Gmail phishing report feature.

Shortly thereafter I got more.

Again,  I reported them using the Gmail phishing report feature.

I got even more!

It was 10 a day, then 20 a day, then 30 day many of them in blocks of just a few minutes increments.

Since Monday now I have received  as of writing this posting here 145 scam/spam messages.
It becomes evident to me that the more I report using the Gmail phishing reporting features the more spam I get!
Of course the Gmail (Webmail) reporting feature is so "WDGAF" archaic clunky backwards that even in the 1980s I had a better email program/interface!

So what exactly what ignorami scam is going on here?
Worse yet, with all that AI jazz they can't implement an "ounce" of intelligence and customizable feature that eliminates that automatically?

Their "block" feature is a joke from a 3-year-old. There is no intelligence in "seeing/understanding" the obvious scam sender domains neither is there any intelligence in recognizing the subject title or addressee name. of course there is also absolutely no sensible feature feature implemented.
The whole thing appears to be dumber than dumb.
What's the game behind it?

19/08/2026 -> answer is no

I tried everything to recovery phone with pin code, and it told me to open gmail, to which i was also logged out of. So there was no use, Tried to reset my password, it told me to use another email to send a code, which i did, and it said to wait 48 HOURS For a link to reset the password. Can someone PLEASE tell me a method to easily find my google password without password manager, but it doesnt show google or gmail to me at all

Hi all. My mom has a group of older people (mainly couples) who meet once every couple of months to go out to dinner. She's in charge of the emailing, setting it all up, etc. So last year, I helped her create a contact group and get all their emails put in. She called it Dining Out (which is the name of the group). Well, a couple of months ago, one of the wives in the group passed away. Her husband is friends with others in the group, so he is still interested in being included. In the contact list, his contact is the email address he and his wife shared, and it's under her name. But of course, every time he gets an email from my mom for the group, it's still listed under her name. He and my mom discussed it, and they want to make it his name instead so he isn't seeing her name every time.

So my mom went into the contacts, changed the name to his, and thought that should be golden. Sure, in the contact list, it shows his name. Her name no longer shows up. Cut to the next time she sent out a group email... It's her name, not his. If you go to the contact list, it's HIS name. But when the group is added, it's her name.

She deleted his contact completely so it didn't show up in the contact list (or, of course, the group list), and then she readded the email address with his name. Added the group to a new email, and...her name, not his. So I had her delete his contact again (over Zoom so I could watch it all and make sure, whatever), and then I had her start an email. No contact for her or him. Great. So I had her export the contact list (she was worried she would lose it somehow), and then I had her edit the list and add him with the email address and his name. Saved it, imported it into a NEW group. She started a new email and added the new group...and it's still the wife's name with the email address.

What are we doing wrong?? She's so frustrated, and frankly, so am I because I can't help her! LOL

Thanks in advance!

I know my YouTube password and my phone number. I totally forgot my email address. Am I in trouble?

I really need help because I do not know what to do. I have a YouTube channel called @nachova126. I accidentally logged out of the Google account that owns it on my computer.

The problem is that I know the password and I know the phone number that is linked to the account. I completely forgot my email address. I tried the "Forgot email?" option from Google. I entered my phone number. Then Google asked me for my first and last name that are associated with the account.

The problem is that I do not remember those either. The name of my YouTube channel is different from the name on the Google account so knowing the channel name does not help me. I spent a lot of time trying to find the email on my computer.

I checked these things:

The. Passwords that Firefox saved

The history on Firefox that goes back years

The Firefox profiles

The Windows Credential Manager

The Firefox session backups

The old tabs and browsing data

I still could not find the email address. The email was only used on this computer. I do not have it saved on my phone. I do know the password. I do know the phone number that is linked to the account. I also still have access to the YouTube channel page itself: youtube.com/@nachova126

Is there any way to find the Google email address that is associated with this YouTube channel? I do not need anyone to recover the account for me. I just need to figure out what the email address is because once I know it I should be able to log in with the password that I already know.

Any ideas would be really helpful. I am getting very desperate after searching my computer for hours. I have the YouTube channel @nachova126. I want to get back into my Google account. I know the password for the Google account. I know the phone number for the Google account. I forgot the email address, for the Google account.

so recently i was doing something on my computer, than something happened and i logged out of all my gmail accounts, i manage to login in to 2 of them but am trying to find the 3th one and theres a problem that i remeber what name it was (eg. something@gmail.com) but i dont remeber the last digits that were there, and was there any chance to find this gmail or is it just lost. i will be happy if you give me some tips

and i am using pc

I am locked out of my personal @gmail.com account. I have my registered phone number and can receive the SMS code. I am using my usual device and home network on my very first attempt, but Google is sending the secondary code to the exact same email I am locked out of. I do not have a separate recovery email address linked.

I need help because it contains a document I need to submit.

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3 days ago, Google sent my dad an email saying a sign-in attempt was blocked because of suspicious activity. Today, he got signed out of his Google account and now we can't get back in. ( I'm not sure if he got signed out today or just realised it today)

He doesn't remember the password, and the one we think is correct isn't working. When we click “Try another way,” it only gives us options like Google Authenticator (which he never had), sending a code to his Gmail (which we can't access), or another recovery email that looks like "bra........@ou.....com". He doesn't recognize this email at all and has never used Outlook.

He also doesn't have backup codes.

Has anyone had something similar happen? Especially the unknown Outlook recovery email part? If you managed to get your account back, what actually worked?

Would really appreciate any help 🙏

In the past few days I've received two separate confirmation emails for accounts/bookings I never created:

An account confirmation

A restaurant/venue booking confirmation, with a phone number attached that isn't mine

Both were sent to my Gmail address, but interestingly, in both cases the sender/booking system used my address WITH a dot in it (e.g. my.email@gmail.com), while my actual address doesn't have the dot (myemail@gmail.com). I know Gmail ignores dots, so technically these land in my inbox regardless.

My address isn't a common name combination, it's fairly specific, so I'm surprised this has happened twice in a short window. Is this just coincidence, or could there be a data leak/breach where variations of my email are circulating, or some kind of enumeration attack happening? What should I actually check on my end (password reuse, breach checkers, etc.) to make sure my own accounts are safe?

I’m kinda parnoia and stress out about,can someone tell me how someone would get hacked easily?

I’m always parnoia about this and check everyday despite not doing bad,it just make me nervous

I got a new phone and wiped my old one so I can trade it in. I forgot the password to my email address. When trying to log in on my new phone, it prompts me to put in the last password I remember. I put in the password I had written down. It asks for my phone number. I put in my phone number. It says to open the Gmail app on my iPhone 12 and put in the code. I just reset my iPhone 12 because I got a new phone. Why does it need to be on the iPhone 12 app and it just text me a code since I put in my phone number?

I tried to transfer all my data back to my old phone, but it failed.

I’m at a loss on what to do.

Hardly a day goes by without hearing wails from somebody about their gmail being hacked so I'm wondering what else I should do to avoid it myself.

My O/S is Linux.

My gmail passwd is complicated and not used for anything else whatsoever.

I don't trust the cloud for ANYTHING, esp. my passwords. I do my own backups and use an encrypted password database.

And I'll doublecheck anything anybody tells me because it occurs to me that overtrusting anything I see here would be a great way to GET hacked. :)

edit 1: straight gmail on their website on a windows pc and android phone

edit 2: gone through all gmail security checks and procedutes

accounts not linked to anything outside

happened on all my gmail accounts, simultaneously

had the accounts for years, never changed default settings

mass deletion in inbox only, emails stored in separate files untouched

no signs of a hack -- gives all appearance of a google maintenance procedure

just used the accounts for gmail, nothing exotic going on, no business apps

I've been having some problems with my email recently. I'm not receiving certain messages and certain messages I've sent or not being received by others. I've received no bounce messages for emails I've sent. Users who have sent email to me have not reported any bounce messages. I sent a test message to Unspam which reported that the sending IP address is currently blacklisted by SpamCop. The IP address is 74.125.224.51 which is a Google IP address.

I suspect this is the cause of the delivery problems although none of my friends who use Gmail seem to have noticed any problem.

Additional information:

I have a vanity email domain hosted at SquareSpace with email forwarding to my Gmail account. Because of a different issue some time ago, I set the From address of all emails to my Gmail address and the Reply-To to my vanity address. Unspam didn't report this as a problem.

This has been going on for more than a week and so far, that IP address has not been removed from SpamCop's blacklist. Since I don't own that email address, I can't ask to have it removed.

Any other suggestions to address this problem?

My boss told me not to use automatic signature in emails. Instead, he told me to type my name every single time because this is what he does (he is Japanese). I was very shocked because I have been using automatic signature since 20 years ago and I don't understand why spending time typing your name instead of using the automatic signature which the main purpose is to help you save time and be efficient at work. I asked my coworkers (who are also Japanese), the more shocking thing is that both of them type their name!! I checked their emails, it's the same signature, best, xxx in all the emails. What's the point of repeatly doing this? Is this some Japanese culture thing? But all of our clients from Japan use automatic signature in their emails...I am very frustrated about this, because I feel like I'm being forced to do meaningless thing although it's such a small detail.