How to Recover Hacked Email Accounts

It can be a real nightmare if someone hacks and takes control of your
email account as it may contain confidential information like bank
logins, credit card details and other sensitive data. If you are one
such Internet user whose email account has been compromised, then this
post will surely help you out. In this post you will find the possible
ways and procedures to get back your hacked email account.


For Gmail:

It can be a big disaster if your Gmail account has been compromised as
it may be associated with several services like Blogger, Analytics,
Adwords, Adsense, Orkut etc. Losing access to your Gmail account means
losing access to all the services associated it with too. Here is a
list of possible recovery actions that you can try.

Step -1: Try resetting your password since it is the easiest way to
get your account back in action. In this process Google may ask you to
answer the secret question or may send the password reset details to
the secondary email address associated with your compromised account.
You can reset you password from the following link

Gmail Password Reset Link-https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery

If you cannot find success from the Step-1 then proceed to Step-2.


Step-2: Many times the hacker will change the secret question and
secondary email address right after the account is compromised. This
is the reason for the Password Reset process to fail. If this is the
case then you need to contact the Gmail support team by filling out
the account recovery form. This form will ask you to fill out several
questions like

1. Email addresses of up to five frequently emailed contacts
2. Names of any 4 Labels that you may have created in your account
3. List of other services associated with your compromised account
4. Your last successful login date
5. Account created date
6. Last password that you remember and many more…

You need to fill out this form as much accurately as possible. It is
obvious to forget the dates of last login, account creation and
similar terms. However you need to figure out the closest possible
date/answers and fill out this form. This is your last chance! The
more accurate the information filled out in the recovery form, the
more the chances of getting your account back. You may reach the
account recovery page form the following link

Account Recovery Form-go to this link
https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery

How to Block Unwanted Emails

Do you want to  block unwanted emails. Do you want to
block those annoying offers and newsletters that reach your inbox?
Well here is a way to block all those unwanted and annoying emails
that you do not want to see or read! With this trick you can block
individual email address or the whole domain from which you do not
want the emails to come from. Here are the step-by-step instructions
to do this.


For Gmail

1. Login to your account

2. At the top-right corner, click on Settings

3. Under Settings, click on Filters

4. You’ll now see an option “Create a new filter“, click on it

5. Now in the From field enter the email address from which you do not
want to receive the emails

For ex. you may enter john@gmail .com in the From field to block all
incoming emails from this address. However if you want to block the
whole domain then use the following syntax: *@xyz.com. Now all the
incoming emails from the domain xyz.com will be blocked.

6. Click on Next Step, select the action you’d like to take on the
blocked emails. You may select the option Delete it so that the
blocked email is moved to trash. To unblock the email, all you need to
do is just delete the filter that you’ve created.

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