How to Recover a Gmail Account

Losing  Gmail account access or any email client, you can end up being a frightening experience, not just lose access to your E-mails.Here i am going to tell you some steps so you can get back your Gmail Account

• How To Recover Hacked Gmail Account  

•   If Your Gmail has been compromised 

•  My messages have gone missing 

• Recover your Gmail account 

• If it was recently compromised. 

• How To Make Your Gmail Account Secure  

• Still not resolved your issue ! Contact Gmail Help Forums

Step:-1

How To Recover Hacked Gmail Account 

How did it happen?

Apparently, I received several emails stating that someone else was asking for a password change to Gmail. Usually ignored them, but after a few minutes, when he tried to check his mail from the Blackberry, it showed an error, saying he had trouble retrieving mails because the password was wrong.

Apparently, there was a problem with the password, but somehow managed to infiltrate your email, and change the password, effectively knocking him out. One possible reason may have been a weak security question

Visit our password assistance page to reset your password and to prevent anyone else from accessing your account again in the future.


Things to do in such cases?

The first, of course, do not panic, as we will need a calm mind to fill in some data.

There are forms you can fill to restore our account and verify that we own them. The form to verify our account here. It is important to remember things like the creation date on the account, what other Google services use, and when they began to use them.

Resetting your password requires you to have set up account recovery options. If you haven’t set up recovery options or can’t use them, a link to the account recovery form will appear at the bottom of the page. You’ll need to fill this out to try to get back into your account.

By submitting this form, Google managers verify the authenticity of the data provided, and receive information.

Step:-2

Compromised Gmail account

Your account may have been compromised if you’ve experienced any of the following issues:

• Your contacts have received suspicious messages from your address
• Contacts and/or mail have gone missing, and
•  If you still have access to your account

•  Change your password immediately to protect your account:

• Go to your Google Account settings page.
• Click Change Password.
• Enter your old password to help prove you own the account, then enter your new password.

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 Step:-3

 My messages have gone missing 

•  You’ve already tried the tips on  missing messages troubleshooter, such as searching your mail and checking your settings
• You’ve received a warning about suspicious activity from your Last account activity

     Step:-5  If it was recently compromised.
  Gmail security checklist



How to avoid these problems?


Nothing is 100% safe. But if you want to avoid these problems, here are some tips:

•     Put a strong password. This is the most important. Also, be sure to change it regularly.

•     Next, add a mobile / cell reference. They will then receive an SMS with a code when you need to change the password (and thus, will be more difficult than that person get access this password reset code). This can be done from here

•     Put a question to which only you know the answer. No "name my dog" or "first school". It can also be changed here.

•     While you're here, make sure you have another email account "secondary" where you can receive a new password. Also, be sure that this account has a different password in a completely different, and, of course, that this account receives emails are not automatically sent to the principal.

•     Aim on paper the date you created your Gmail account, besides the date you started using other Google services, because if we have to fill the account verification form, we will need this data.

•     If you use Gmail from a public PC, of ​​course, do not forget to log out every time you stop using it.

Once you have made all these changes, do not forget to test! Get out of your account, and try to make the recovery process. This will ensure that the text message reaches our cell phone and our email accounts receive the mail right side.

If your account has been compromised, but you’re still able to sign in to your account, make sure to follow the steps in the security checklist to help protect your account from the bad guys.

Step:-4

Recover your Gmail account 

With the importance of a Gmail account today, it is vital to know that, if the worst happens, we can recover our account at the most critical moment.
If you surf on the internet Google is perhaps the most important web sites and a registered account on Google is much more than simple access to online services.

What makes Google important is that , with just a Google Account you can get into Gmail, you can buy online with Google Checkout , you can enter into a contract Adsense or Adwords, you can manage a website, you can start a blog with Blogger , a YouTube channel, a Twitter account and more.One problem Google account can throw into a panic because if any user no longer able to do the login with username and password and there are no errors or messages terrible as " the account does not exist" or " the account is locked . "

Google also does not have a customer service, support a human to ask for assistance and everything remains in the hands of the user who has to move alone to find a solution to the problems of login.

In this article we try to make a guide to enter in to a Google Account and Gmail, and above all see all the possible solutions to recover the account

To begin with, we see that to get into Gmail internet address is correct https://mail.google.com (attention, gmail.it is another thing and has nothing to do with the Google Mail).

The login to your Google Account by logging should be made ​​instead from the link at the top right visible on the homepage of the search engine www.google.com it would always be better to enter, making sure that the address begins with HTTPS ie https://www.google.com

If these links do not open, it is likely that there is a temporary connection problem or a system administrator or a firewall blocks access to Google.

A Google Account is managed in all of its options from the web page accessed at https://www.google.com/accounts/.

If you are enrolled in Google+, the settings are in the profile settings Google Plus A first reason why you can not access may be due to errors in the browser.

Clear the browser's cache and cookies and try again.Groped access to your Google Account with a different browser: in addition to Internet Explorer you can surf the internet with Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome. Use a different computer or even a mobile phone or smartphone that can browse the internet.
 
Clearly , if Google does not show problems, and writing user name and password , you can not get into Gmail and even make the login Google account and any other service , there is an error to solve.
The causes of a problem of access to Google and Gmail can be:

- Because the username is not accepted or is deemed non-existent .
- Because the password is incorrect or is not remembered ;
- Because the account is locked (sometimes the warning says that the account does not exist but that the    username can not be used by anyone else ) .

If you stumbled on this page because you are looking for a solution to the problem of logging into Gmail , Blogger, Adsense or any other Google service , you probably realize that this kind of problem is very common and not so rare .You read in the forums a lot of requests for help for locked account , hacked , deleted for violation of the terms of service, or for other reasons.

The most common mistake is that the username or password you entered is incorrect .
This is really a frequent error and human because you can be 100% sure of the accuracy of the data and then realize that it was not so .Before then go into a panic , make sure not to stay well wrong password or user name

To recover your username you can go to this page and to recover the password of Google and Gmail you can make the recovery wizard
 
Please note that your user name in most cases is an email address and that all Gmail accounts can use the e-mail address as the username.
 
To restore your login information to a Google Account and Gmail you must go to this page, which lists all the steps needed for password recovery and the availability of services to go into Gmail and Google.
You can reset the password and log on again to reset it to zero from the homepage of Google.

If you suspect that someone has made ​​unauthorized access to your Google Account or Gmail inbox, you need to reset and change your password immediately using the form of recovery (link a few lines above).
If you do not have a secondary address to recovery or if the hacker has changed the email address password recovery, there will be no chance to do the reset so you have to activate a different procedure by completing this form by answering the questions (in Italian) specifying if you use Gmail or Blogger.
Among the questions are also asked to provide the addresses of five users in the address book contacts, date of account creation or the date of the last successful logon.

If the problem is trying to get into Gmail, and you can not log in, there is another page of the wizard.
For each error received is a Gmail help article available from this index errors. 


Step:-6

What Google does to keep your account secure

-To help protect Google users, Gmail design automated systems to help detect phishing and malware.  In addition, Gmail is also the only major webmail provider to offer SSL encryption over https for the entire email session by default. 

-As an added security measure for Gmail users, Gmail implemented a new alert system last month that notifies you of suspicious activity in your account; these alerts also give you an opportunity to change your password if you think your account has been compromised.  A number of you have posted that you’ve taken advantage of this new alert, which is great to hear.  More info can be found here:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/detecting-suspicious-account-activity.html

As has been widely reported, high profile users of Gmail - including US government officials, reporters and political activists - have had their email accounts hacked. This wasn't a sophisticated attack against Google's systems, but rather a cleverly-crafted HTML email which pointed to a Gmail phishing page.
Victims would believe that they had been sent an attachment, click on the link, and be greeted by what appeared to be Gmail's login screen. Before you knew it, your Gmail username and password could be in the hands of unauthorised parties.
So, what steps should you take to reduce the chances of your Gmail account being hacked?

If you suspect that forwarding was added without your permission, change your password immediately and go through the Gmail security checklist.

1. Set up Two step verification
2. Last activity

1. Set up Two step verification

The hackers who broke into high profile Gmail accounts grabbed usernames and passwords. So, an obvious thing to do would be to make Gmail require an extra piece of information before allowing anybody to access your account.
Google provides a facility called "two step verification" to Gmail users, which provides that extra layer of security. It requires you to be able to access your mobile phone when you sign into your email account - as they will be sending you a magic "verification" number via SMS.
The advantage of this approach - which is similar to that done by many online banks - is that even if cybercriminals manage to steal your username and password, they won't know what your magic number is because they don't have your phone.
Google has made two step verification easy to set up.

Once you're set up, the next time you try to log into Gmail you'll be asked for your magic number after entering your username and password. Your mobile phone should receive an SMS text message from Google containing your verification number.

Let's just hope the bad guys don't have access to your mobile phone too..
Here's a video from Google where they explain two step verification in greater detail:
You can also learn more about two step verification on Google's website.
By the way, note that two step verification doesn't mean that your Gmail can't ever be snooped on by remote hackers. They could, for instance, install spyware onto your computer which could monitor everything that appears on your screen. But it's certainly a good additional level of security for your Gmail account, and one which will make life much more difficult for any cybercriminal who might be targeting you.
2. Check if your Gmail messages are being forwarded without your permission

Gmail gives you the ability to forward your emails to another email address. There are situations where this might be handy, of course, but it can also be used by hackers to secretly read the messages you receive.
Go into your Gmail account settings, and select the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab.
If your emails are being forwarded to another address, then you will see something like the following:


That's fine if you authorised for your emails to be forwarded to that email address, but a bad thing if you didn't.
If your messages are not being forwarded you will see a screen more like this:

Hackers want to break into your account not just to see what email you've received up until their break-in. Ideally, they would like to have ongoing access to your email, even if you change your password or enable two step verification. That's why it's so important to check that no-one has sneakily asked for all of your email to be forwarded to them.
In a similar vein, you had best ensure that no-one has unexpectedly been authorised to read and send email from your account.

Check that no-one unexpected is listed under the "Grant access to your account" option (found under "Accounts and Import" in Gmail's settings).
Even if you have granted permission for someone else to access your Gmail account, your security is now only as strong as that person's account security.
3. Where is your Gmail account being accessed from?

At the bottom of each webpage on Gmail, you'll see some small print which describes your last account activity. This is available to help you spy if someone has been accessing your account at unusual times of day (for instance, when you haven't been using your computer) or from a different location.

Clicking on the "Details" option will take you to a webpage describing the type of access and the IP address of the computer which logged your email account. Although some of this data may appear nerdy, it can be a helpful heads-up - especially if you spot a computer from another country has been accessing your email.

4. Choose a unique, hard-to-crack password

As we've explained before, you should never use the same username and password on multiple websites. It's like having a skeleton key which opens every door - if they grab your password in one place they can try it in many other places.
Also, you should ensure that your password is not a dictionary word, and is suitably complex that it's hard to break with a dictionary attack.


Don't delay, be sensible and make your passwords more secure today
And once you've chosen a safer password - keep it safe! That means, don't share it with anyone else and be very careful that you're typing it into the real Gmail login screen, not a phishing site.
5. Secure your computer

It should go without saying, but this list would be unfinished without it... You need to properly secure your computer with up-to-date anti-virus software, security patches and so forth. If you don't,.. you're risking hackers planting malicious code on your computer which could spy upon you and, of course, your email.

You always want to be certain that your computer is in a decent state of health before you log into a sensitive online account, such as your email or bank account. That's one of the reasons why I would always be very nervous about using a computer in a cybercafe or hotel lobby. You simply don't know what state the computer is in, and who might have been using it before.
6. Why are you using Gmail anyway?

Okay, I don't really mean that. But I do mean, why are you storing sensitive information in your Gmail account?
The news headlines claim that senior US political and military officials were being targeted by the hackers. Surely if they had confidential or sensitive data they shouldn't have that in their webmail account? Shouldn't that be on secure government and military systems instead?
Always think about the data you might be putting on your web email account - because if it's only protected by a username and password that may actually be less security than your regular work email system provides.
Read this also:-http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/online-safety/mail-accounts/

Step:-7

Still not resolved your issue ! Contact Gmail Help Forums

It is no coincidence that, at times, some accounts are disabled by mistake and for alleged violations of the rules of Regulation Google.If after all the completed forms had not yet been able to recover the account, the only way to contact Google is typing a message on the official forum of Gmail.

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