I moved away from Gmail for most of my mail a while ago for privacy reasons, and in anticipation that something like this would happen eventually.
Not much later, I was locked out of a Gmail account I had for an extensively long time (created back when Gmail was still in beta and by invitation only).
I know the password, I know the recovery e-mail address, and have access to the recovery account, yet I'm not allowed to access the Gmail account or recover the password regardless. Go figure.
The account was used mainly for all kinds of registrations where I expected I might end up getting spammed but I definitely wasn't doing anything suspicious with it. I didn't bother too much trying to restore it but any attempts would have likely failed regardless.
I moved away from Gmail for most of my mail a while ago for privacy reasons, and in anticipation that something like this would happen eventually.
Not much later, I was locked out of a Gmail account I had for an extensively long time (created back when Gmail was still in beta and by invitation only).
I know the password, I know the recovery e-mail address, and have access to the recovery account, yet I'm not allowed to access the Gmail account or recover the password regardless. Go figure.
The account was used mainly for all kinds of registrations where I expected I might end up getting spammed but I definitely wasn't doing anything suspicious with it. I didn't bother too much trying to restore it but any attempts would have likely failed regardless.