Comments on: Google: Account temporarily disabled

By: Lush

Lush — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:01:32 +0000

This is crap! There is no reason for a free email provider to have your phone number! WTF!

By: RoVeL

RoVeL — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:14:36 +0000

I checked my gmail this morning I got a message that my account was disabled. I have no clue why they did that.

I am wondering why entering my mobile phone number would make up for anything I supposedly did do wrong (i.e. copyright infringement). It looks to me like Google just wants to build a database with phone numbers. Right now I refuse to enter my mobile number! But maybe I will be forced to do so in the end

By: tfishman

tfishman — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:31:19 +0000

My wife gmail account has been temporarily disabled and she can not get on to her gmail and we can not fine and phone number to get help with this problem we do not know why her Account was temporarily disabled and this is making both of use up set. so can you give us a land line number where she can call to fine out how this can be fix.

By: koneile

koneile — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:07:55 +0000

I am abroad; the text message didn’t come through to my cell phone, but the voice message did. My Gmail account was reactivated.

I figured out the problem – the first e-mail I had not seen was from YouTube, informing me that they’d deleted a video of mine due to copyright infringement. No big deal, I thought – but apparently it was, because it was the third time, so they closed my YouTube account. Because it’s linked to my Google account, they disabled the whole thing.

My Gmail is restored, but my YouTube is not.

So beware: Google owns a lot of websites, and associates your account with all of them. Activity on one site will be considered part of your Google account on the whole.

By: kfulton

kfulton — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:40:42 +0000

I suppose I’m not alone – SIX DAYS, Jonni???!?!! I’m going on two and am livid. I live in Korea and this is my only access to the west, my CV, passport scans, bookmarks etc. I’m even more enraged at Google’s lack of response, to my alternative address or cell phone. Obviously, they are not set up to send this SMS to a Korean cell phone, despite the fact that I can enter that as my country. I wish I could find a place to report this to someone who has some power at Google; I don’t feel that I’ve violated their rules, and taking away something I rely on so much is really unacceptable in my books.

By: jonni

jonni — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:46:57 +0000

I have had my account temporarily suspended for 6 days now. I have provided an alternate email address to google and they have not contacted me. Further, I tried to restore the account using a work phone landline where an automated voice ‘Jenny’ calls and gives me a code. After the first attempt, I was taken to a new window and told… “the system is currently unavailable…please try again in a few hours.” I have done this 5 times now and google will no longer send me a verification code to my phone number! They are now asking for a different number and I will not give them my mobile! This is how people are currently enslaved and I am scared to death. PLEASE HELP with any suggestions you may have.

By: miclesage

miclesage — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:51:19 +0000

The same thing happened to me and I noticed that I have about 10 delivery failure notifications to email addresses in my google account that I did not try to send. So it looks like my account has been hacked as well and they were sending spam messages from my gmail account and now Google has disabled my account. I just got the Droid Incredible and now this happens? So using my gmail with the Droid Incredible made me more susceptible to hackers. I don’t think I want this phone anymore…we HAVE to use Google to use this phone. By the way I have received 3 of those codes now but when I try to access the page to enter the code it just keeps saying my account has been disabled with no option to enter the code so I am wondering if my account is permanently disabled?

By: Singapore Boleh

Singapore Boleh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:42:55 +0000

is it a way for Google to collect mobilephone numbers of all its users?

By: Naski

Naski — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:22:24 +0000

I’ve the same problem and I have received the verification code as well. Unfortunately, I can not find there is any option I can input this code. Any idea? Thanks

By: zalka

zalka — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:38:17 +0000

Please someone help me i have the code but where do i put it there is nothing on the page where i can enter it how did the rest of you do it.