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2-Step Verification on your account fails to sign you in.Your account was suspended or deleted because it was found violating Google’s terms and policies.Your account may have gotten compromised/hacked.You didn’t set up any backup email or phone number for recovery.You don’t remember your account’s password.You don’t remember your account’s email address.You may not be able to log in to your account if If your Gmail account is locked out, it can happen for a lot of reasons. Use Google Authenticator to get verification codes.Receive sign-in code via text messages or voice call.Use your phone to sign in instead of a password.

Add a recovery phone number/email for easier access.

Note down all your previous Google passwords.

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How to avoid losing access to Gmail or your data.

Use Google One to talk to the Google support team.

Use Google troubleshooter to learn what might be wrong.

Case #4: When your account is compromised.

Case #3: When you don’t have a recovery email/phone number.

Case #2: When you’ve forgotten your account password.

Case #1: When you’ve forgotten your email address.

How to recover your Gmail account in 6 ways.

What happens when your Gmail is locked out?.

Perhaps this kind of email should be marked as 'SPAM' to warn Google mail developer. It just gives spammer ways to phish users: pour in tons of similar spam, people will think clicking the link will 'fix' the spamming problem.

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That email actually is a terrible google email registration process that shouldn't be crafted in the first place. So you don't need to do anything with it. If somebody wrongly enters their recovery email address, their Gmail account will not be activated. If you read through the message, you will notice most people will ask you DON'T CLICK any HTML link from an email. It is mentioned here in google product forum. Somebody accidentally enters your email address as recovery email (either due to typo or other reasons) There is another possibility mentioned here. If you hover over the URL, you will see the actual URL are NOT from Google, but some unknown site or shorten URL that will trigger a screen that downloads a malware(AKA Computer virus) or phishing site to trick you to enter Google username and password.

This message is yet another variant of malicious spoof spam mail tries to trick you to click the link that says ' click here to disconnect'. The disconnect link doesn't look like a phishing one, it is in this form: It seems unlikely that my address was added as recovery email by mistake, so I am wondering if UNKONWN_PERSON or someone else had any malicious intent While clicking the disconnect link seems the obvious action, I am not sure that this is enough. Where MY_EMAIL_ADDR is my email address, to which the message was sent. You received this message because MY_EMAIL_ADDR is listed as the recovery email for If is not your Google Account, click here to disconnect from that account and stop receiving emails. They have no resemblance to mine and even belong to a different culture. Where UNKONWN_PERSON and UNKONWN_ACCOUNT are total strangers to me. Your Google Account was just used to sign in from SOME_BROWSER on SOME_OS I just received a 'New sign-in' notification email from Google, saying

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