Recovering email

[Finn Smith]

About a year ago, I set up a new email address (mrfin...@gmail.com) to use specifically for publishing add-ons. 

It appears that it was disabled about a week after I set it up. I didn't get any message about it - I just discovered that I couldn't log in, and when I sent a message to that account, it got bounced back.

Can anyone recommend a way to recover this account? Since it's literally my full name, it seems like it should be fairly straightforward to establish that I'm the original owner.

Thank you!

[Alex]

Yep, try from here https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery

Also the support knowledge page https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7682439

[Finn Smith]

Hi Alex,

Those options don't seem to work for me because it appears they've actually deleted the account. Is my only option to track down a Google employee and see if they can file a request internally?

[Alex]

Perhaps there is some kind of nepotism on Google, but I have not seen it in the last 12 years ;-)

There is a direct way to try restore the account https://support.google.com/accounts/community?hl=en

Unfortunately, it's not always possible to do something with the abandoned data.

I wish good luck for you.

[Finn Smith]

Thank you! I didn't know about that page. There wasn't any data on the account, so there's no worries there. It's really puzzling to me that it was shut down. I'm guessing it was just some kind of algorithm that is hyper vigilant.