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Locked out of a google account on chromebook?


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#1 paulyjustin

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Posted 10 May 2023 - 09:22 PM

A while back, i created several gmail accounts.  These are like my web browsing accounts so they are still important as i use these solely on a chromebook.  So on my chromebook, i have about 7 google accounts.  Mainly i use two of them.  The other uses i used a while back and then stopped.  

 

 

 

Well i tried to recently log into one of those accounts... a third account... i use to log into this account a lot a while back before i stopped and now only log into only the other two accounts.  When i tried to log in, it ask me something like i have to confirm my phone number or email for recovery?  Not sure what they mean by that... they mean just give any phone number or email for recovery?  The thing is all these gmail accounts of mine, do not have any phone number or email connected to it.  So how in the worlcan i even log back in this account?  it was basically a google dummy account i created a while back in order to use a chromebook.  Then again, all these gmail accounts i have on my gmail account are dummy accounts?  However, i wouldn't call it that because i saved a good amount of videos to the google drive on this.  Have about two personal gmail accounts that i use on my windows laptop.  So i created these gmail accounts a while back so i can log into a chromebook.

 

 

 

What are my options now?  Again, i never put a phone number or email recovery.  But i think its because they detected something suspicious?  Also as many of you know with a chromebook, you would enter your username and password and log in.  But why is this gmail account like this?  Now do use a free vpn thundervpn when normally using chromebook but before you enter your google account password to login, well you aren't on vpn yet right?  So why would this be an issue?  Now i can imagine it being an issue if you log in via vpn but i can't even do that on chromebook before login.  Normally after i log in, then i open thundervpn and then open chrome and web browse etc.  My other concern is i am planning to use a new chromebook.  So what happens if i log into my new chromebook with my google accounts... particularly the main ones i use for my old chromebook anit gets locked?  How wouli prevent this because my third most used google account doesn't allow me to access my account even though my passworis correct?  Now i obviously used a fake name with these google accounts for chromebook years ago.  So what can do now?  Wouli be able to access that account now by entering any new phone number or email?  Thing was it seemed to ask for my old one connected to that google account?  But i never put any.



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Posted 11 May 2023 - 09:56 AM

Contact Google for support.

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Posted 12 May 2023 - 07:57 PM

Not much that you can do since Google has made Chromebooks a very secure platform in that it stores everything on their servers.






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