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Update: Now it says "Unavailable because of too many failed attempts. Try again in a few hours."

No. My issue is that to reset the password, Google is asking me to get something from an email which I don't know the password for. And that too when I have a recovery phone number setup on the account.

Asking to verify a code from the email for which I'm trying to reset the password is stupid and defeats the purpose of having a "recovery" phone number.

Note: I have a recovery phone number set on the account. A code is being sent to my phone, after I enter the code, that's when I'm being asked to verify the code from the same email.

I wouldn't be bothering about the account if I had not set a recovery phone number.

>I can verify the phone number but then it keeps asking me to verify a code that's sent on the same email.

I have a recovery phone number in there. I'm verifying it everytime Google asks me to, but then it takes me to verify the code from the same email that I don't have access to.

It makes no sense but that's what's happening.

Here's the flow of how it's going.

Forgot Password → Enter the phone number ending with XX → Enter the code sent to your phone → Enter the code sent to your email (the same email).

I've tried the recovery methods, there's no other way that Google is offering me to recover the account. I'll happily answer all the security questions if Google asks me to.

> How do you want Google to solve this?

The current way Google is asking me to verify makes no sense. I don't know the password for the email, how do they expect me to go into that email and verify the code when I don't know the password.

> And how can they be certain you’re the owner?

I am already verifying the code from the SMS that Google is sending to the phone number on the account.

I know that there's no way to actually get this done, but I can verify that's it's my account.

I can verify that I'm the owner of the account Google has been sending the payments for AdSense.

I can verify by signing in from the usual devices that the account was previously signed in from.

Suggest me another sensible way, I'll do it because I'm the owner.

Thanks for the resources. I have already started moving away from Google because I've read nightmare filled stories about people getting locked out for various reasons.

I never thought it would happen to me in this manner. It makes no sense that it's asking me to verify the code from an email that I'm telling them I don't have the password for. Even when I have a recovery phone number set on the account.

I have SMS setup, but it still asks me to verify the code being sent to the same email.

I actually have no reason to be stuck here because all these years, I was easily able to reset the password by verifying with a code on my phone number. It does send a code now as well, but then it's asking me to also verify the code being sent to the same email.

Unfortunately it's a gmail account, not an external email account.

> Truecaller’s database that includes users who did not register and did not give consent to having their numbers identified.

That's the problem with maintaining absolute privacy. The privacy and security of your information depends on other people even if you do everything to save it.

Privacy Policy: We do not collect any data.

There was a website with a large collection of security blogs. I cannot seem to find it now.

Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.

Once the my data is in your server. There is no way for me to know what you are doing with my data. You could be selling it. How will I know?

These "unusual activity" detecting algos are a menace. If I use a VPN to access my account, blocked.

Had this issue with Paypal & Digitalocean. Reddit shadowbans accounts made with VPN.

That's KinderJoy

Can confirm. I created an account for a client but I was using a VPN to avoid conflicting with my own personal account.

It was blocked but DO unlocked it once I explained it in an email to them.