| Question about Gmail accounts | MLStudios | 6/26/12 11:00 PM | My question is If you do not have a Gmail account and you sign up for an account using a A. A friends computer B. A computer at work C. or at Best Buy or any other retailer that sells android phones in which you need a google account to access market |
| Re: Question about Gmail accounts | bkc56 | 6/26/12 11:02 PM | If you make SURE you are signed out of any open accounts, the creating a new account wont end up being part of someone else's account. But WHERE you create the account doesn't matter. This information may help explain this better: http://gmail-misc |
| Re: Question about Gmail accounts | MLStudios | 6/26/12 11:34 PM | Interesting I have a friend who had signed up using a work computer. The owner of the office is playing a games with changing the passwd. Both parties have called google to get passwd reset (so they say). Google had said that the owner of the google/ |
| Re: Question about Gmail accounts | bkc56 | 6/26/12 11:36 PM | Lacking other information, Google does use IP information to try and determine ownership of an account when someone is trying to recover it. But it's only one of many things that are considered because (obviously) IPs change all the time. |
| Re: Question about Gmail accounts | MLStudios | 6/26/12 11:44 PM | So if its not your ip and someone changes passwd from the account creating ip address they can take control of your account and claim ownership just because of ip used at time of account creation |
| Re: Question about Gmail accounts | MLStudios | 6/26/12 11:46 PM | oh and by the way dynamic IP's dont change that often unless you dont pay your bill or there is a major storm that knocks out local comcast servers i have known people in this area that have had the same dynamic ip for years |
| Re: Question about Gmail accounts | bkc56 | 6/26/12 11:52 PM | ... just because of ip used at time of account creation Like I said, it's not that simple. oh and by the way dynamic IP's dont change that often... Or you reboot your router for any reason, or have a local power failure (even a blink of a second or |