[ajr0]

this happened to me (minus the travel part, but the theif was from what appears to be a south east asian country), I tried for quite some time getting attention because for about 2 weeks I was still being forwarded messages to my other address so I could observe what they were receiving which was... strange.

in any case my final attempt was contacting a group of people who wrote about account recovery [0] as a last ditch effort, unfortunately some emails bounced and no one responded.

my parents and grandparents occasionally still use my old email and I'm still bothered by it despite it happening over a year ago now. if there is anyone on this list working at google email, I have a lot of evidence showing I owned the account and I would love to have the opportunity to talk to a person about options.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...