I just remembered I had to do the same thing with Sony, and Nintendo. Nintendo had me verify some games I had bought. Sony was a bit weirder. They asked me which games I had been playing. But it didn’t come off like verification. It sounded like the guy at Sony was bored and lonely. He was just like “Sooooo, what’cha been playin?” And I was like “uhhhhh…I guess Grand Theft Auto?”
I felt bad in saying that my playstation usage had dropped DRAMATICALLY the past 10 years. I barely turn it on.
And then he says “says here you haven’t played in a while. Any other games you’ve played recently?”
Uhhhhh, no?
And thats when I realized he was asking for verification purposes.
So far, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Epic are the only services that won’t let me back into my service. The rest have all had other ways.
Now to be fair, yahoo has a way you can pay them money to have an expert look into things. But I refuse to pay money for some guy in India to tell me I need to log into hotmail and give him the code. Then shut down and take my money without resolve when he finds out I can’t.
I know the passwords. I just can’t log in, because they both want security codes sent to other services I have no access to.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What youvare talking about? Any good service does not let anybody who contacts them change the login email just because they say they have lost the access to it. Thats like basic security.