• Somebody took over my dormant Google account. What should I do?

    Posted on March 28, 2019 at 04:32 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    This is a real-life problem.

    Several years ago I registered a domain, woodyswindows.com. I set up some email addresses using that domain, but didn’t do anything else with it. A couple of years ago, I let the domain registration lapse.

    Yesterday I got a notice from Google that my woody@woodyswindows.com account had been recovered:

    Shortly after, I was informed that somebody had changed the recovery email for woody@woodyswindows.com.

    Naturally, I clicked the Check activity link. I was asked to log in to my Google woody@woodyswindows.com account – and at that point I discovered that I didn’t have the password. Either I forgot it (unlikely) or it had been changed. Er, recovered, I guess.

    Somebody managed to take over my old (dormant) Google account, change the password, and lock me out of the recovery email. And I can’t get in to change anything back.

    Any advice? woodyswindows.com is deader ‘n a doornail. Is this worth pursuing? If not, why not?

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