Comment by jjbinx007
5 years ago
Sometimes Google gives me grief when I connect to a VPN. They notice unusual activity and I have to fill in captchas.
It's time to back up my Google account.
5 years ago
Sometimes Google gives me grief when I connect to a VPN. They notice unusual activity and I have to fill in captchas.
It's time to back up my Google account.
No VPN in my case but the IP address changes every 24h, and the browser is set to clear all data on exit, so I can't really say if Google's suggestion to try logging in from a "known" browser and location would have changed anything.
A good (unofficial) summary of the account recovery process, if anyone in the same situation wants to try their luck:
http://gmailaccountrecovery.blogspot.com/
Most people think this is a valuable feature. If you normally access your account from California, but one day you access it from Romania instead, that triggers heightened login security. Because 99.9999999% of the time this is caused by people getting their accounts owned by organized crime syndicates.