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The Magnificent Seven
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so my gmail account (89supra@gmail.com) has been taken hostage by cybercriminals and the people behind gmail itself. whoever stole it made a new account (89supra@operamail.com) and is now living the life in cancun or wherever.

somehow, these bastards got into my account and changed my password, security question and secondary emails. this disables any hope of me getting my password back, so i head over to google's contact form.

i notify them that my account has been compromised, fill in all info to the best of my knowledge (five frequently emailed people - i don't email people much at all with this account). i give them the approx date the account was created, i give them my most recent password (which was my only one for four damn years) and i tell them who referred me. after four tries, they still won't let me get my account back.
 

BLACKLINE

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damn...that sucks. just make a new one and check your computer for key loggers. try to use upper case letters and numbers for your new password.
 

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scanned with malwarebytes, found nothing. finally got my account back after i filled out eight more forms.
 

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Kevin;1436823 said:
did they do anything while they were in your account other then change ur pass and stuff?

doesn't look like anything got sent or received
 

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There were recently 20k+ hotmail, gmail and some other emails with passwords floating around the web. Can't yours be one of them?
But I'm betting you already know that (you probably caught that in the news I guess...) :)
 

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ValgeKotkas;1436845 said:
There were recently 20k+ hotmail, gmail and some other emails with passwords floating around the web. Can't yours be one of them?
But I'm betting you already know that (you probably caught that in the news I guess...) :)

Each company had a list of every email that was compromised and made those users change their info, So doubt he was one of them.

Either It was someone who knew enough about you to guess your info right, or you have a very easy password.