Comments on: Gmail mistakenly shuts down user accounts - including mine!

By: John

John — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:08:23 +0000

Does anyone know the email address to gmail. I would like to reopen my account with them. My email address is outdoorsguy38@aol.com Thanks so much

By: larry

larry — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:54:38 +0000

I cant’ get my incoming mail out of inbox. Every time I push inbox to access my incoming mail, a blank page appears. I can Compose, but I am unable to receive.

Thanks

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:41:29 +0000

My account was disabled about this same time. It identified one of three reasons. I wrote them an email and it was 2 days later that my mailbox was reopened. It never disclosed to me why my account was disabled.

By: Arthi

Arthi — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:30:11 +0000

My account was disabled on Sunday (my birthday! It was awful) so I sent an e-mail late that night. It was restored to me the next afternoon. The whole ordeal made me rather nervous as my whole life is in my e-mail account. I’m assuming this was by accident, as I am certainly not a spammer.

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By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:41:45 +0000

Good luck hearing back from Gmail support. I emailed Gmail Abuse over a scary suspected identity theft issue and I didn’t hear from them for over 3 weeks. When I did hear from them, all I got was a blank email! I replied, asking for a real follow-up and advising I’d involved the police, and I never heard from them again.

By: The Tutor

The Tutor — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:14:30 +0000

I can’t imagine so Mark, unless they have their spammer algo wound way too tight.

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:08:27 +0000

So someone who sends a large volume of legitimate email could be mistaken for a spammer?

By: dualsub2006

dualsub2006 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:42:51 +0000

I don’t know how long the line that you are in is. There really isn’t much uproar over this so I think it is fairly well contained to a small number of users.

I appreciate all that The Goog does to keep SPAM out of my in box. I have 3 Gmail accounts that I use for different purposes and haven’t had an in box SPAM hit me in over a year. That said, if they were whacking people based on user names that is a little over the top. They don’t need to scan user names, just watch activity.

The same thing would stop an actual spammer from getting their account re-enabled. Activity is the dead give away and The Goog can see who is and who is not a spammer.