Nervous about my Gmail

[snogged]

I seem to be unable to access my Gmail account at the moment.

They're saying I can give them my phone number and they'll send me a text with some security code but I don't feel comfortable doing that, especially because I don't know what's going on.

*is nervous*

I really hope I haven't suffered the wrath of some hacker.

ETA: After a google search and countessmary finding the link on account recovery, I got the text sent to me anyways. It appears that a bot tried to send out a bazillion emails but Google stopped it from happening. Of course, this means I'm the suspicious one despite that not being the case. But at least, I'm back in business and hopefully, this won't happen again.

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g-mail woes

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

That happened to me, and here's what I did. When the trouble window came up, I finally said that I had forgotten my password. Not true, but I couldn't get on. That took me to a place to reset the password. I did it over to precisely the same password, and ta-daaaaaaaa -- all fixed. Couldn't hurt to try.
the Fairy Godmother of Verbal Usage

Re: g-mail woes

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Well...I did what they wanted me to and it got fixed so hopefully it doesn't happen again.