Stolen Account and the first Gmail Team Verification Code email

[Marcelo Moya Krause]

Hi,

I not the first one who loose their lovely gmail account in the world. But after some days my mind never stop thinking about what's going wrong?, What I should do before?, and now I wonder WHAT GMAIL TEAM SHOULD DO!!!

I searching the way to recover my account,by looking what do I have to ensure my account is mine... And I found the first Gmail Team Email when I create my gmail account.

WOW it's a miracle..., in it's appear the following:

"Congratulations on creating your brand new Gmail account,
xxxxxx@gmail.com.
Please keep this email for your records, as it contains an
important verification code that you may need should you ever
encounter problems or forget your password.

You can login to your account at http://mail.google.com/

Enjoy!

The Gmail Team


Verification code: xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx565"

well, the reality is that this email doesn't work for nothing, becouse the smart Gmail Team don't have a page or a form where I can use it. So why keep it?

Somebody knows? (sorry my language but I'm too anger)

[Andy]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Marcelo Moya Krause <mm...@email.com> wrote:

...

well, the reality is that this email doesn't work for nothing, becouse the smart Gmail Team don't have a page or a form where I can use it. So why keep it?

You should probably keep it because Google might ask you for the code.  My guess is the verification code is one of many means they have to establish proof that you are the account's original owner.

I've heard that Google sometimes asks you for the first date that you used their products (whether Gmail or Calendar or one of the others).  Having that email helps you do that.

​I checked my first messages from Google and they had no verification code back then.

Gmail is a constantly changing product.  They might have tried using the verification code, but found that too few people could find it, so they have since stopped using it.  Just a guess.

Andy​