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by waitforit 1367 days ago
Wait a few days. It may be possible at a later date.

I'm not storing cookies when using GMail and at a time I regularly got those suspicious login type messages when the browser updated to a new version. At one point I had to click a link in the recovery email and enter the month when the account was created. Pretty much guessed several times until nothing worked. Tried again a day or a few later and got in again.

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> At one point I had to click a link in the recovery email and enter the month when the account was created.

Seriously?! Who comes up with these security questions? This is such a useless question, on the one hand it's insecure because it is a 1/12 chance of guessing right, but also who remembers what month they created an email account? I would venture a guess most people here couldn't even get the year right (I certainly couldn't). Seems the question is only useful to lock out the legitimate owner.

>on the one hand it's insecure because it is a 1/12 chance of guessing right, but also who remembers what month they created an email account?

IIRC, they require both month and year, so there'd be a bit more guesswork involved. I added the exact creation date for all my Google accounts to my password manager when I learned about this verification method.

Ouch... I just checked mine, and I was right about the month but off by 3 years.
> Wait a few days.

Sounds exactly like what someone named waitforit would say

The account was created a few minutes ago. My guess is that they did that to reply to OP, hence the username. Still funny though.