You can do that by mentioning your previous phone number, email, address, a few of contacts which are in your account, a list of most contacted addresses, etc. You need to prove Google that this is your account. This post provides an overview of how account recovery works (you NEED to read this) !category-topic/gmail/SzwFXkqLvr0 and this article provides many more details on the process (you SHOULD read this) īut if you can’t correctly answer enough of the questions to prove ownership of the account Google will not give it to you. You need to contact Gmail support regarding this issue. Submitting more accurate answers and using a known computer/IP-address will help. The only account recovery option Google provides starts at (an account can not be recovered by posting here or contacting Google). Lacking backup codes, the only option is to use the account recovery form (verify your identity) to try and regain access to the account. Disposable phone numbers are also called temporary phone numbers.
Most of the disposable numbers forward calls or text to the users private number hiding real users phone number. The Numbers generally are used to protect users privacy.
Even a backup phone number would have fixed this (it could have been a voice/land-line). A Disposable Phone Number is generally a VoIP phone number that is used for a temporary purpose. Those codes are for exactly this sort of situation and would have you back into the account in seconds ( ). This is where you use one of the backup codes you were instructed to save when you enabled 2-step verification on the account.
