Account Locked, don't know the DOB (8)
Hi
On my personal account I'm getting the 'Your Account Is Temporarily Locked' message.
Unfortunately I don't know what random Date of birth I used and I can't progress beyond that. Is there another way to recover this account?
Another ad account was also locked at the same time but I managed to recover that one as it did not ask for a DOB.
cheers
Andy
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooope.
Well, that was silly!
I always use my friends DOB for random accounts I make.
Hey Andy,
it might not be the easiest workarround, but you could contact one of your friends who uses a calendar software to organize birthdays etc.
They sync the data from facebook and are very likely to have them stored even after your profile goes down.
Cheers
Steve
Good thinking Steve!
Wonder if I could also scrape my own profile based on likes/groups etc from my other account.
Most friends will have seen something like this
once a year for you.
- See if you have any past record of any of your Facebook friends wishing you happy birthday on your fake birthday.
- If so, that should get you at least month and date (and maybe even year if you are lucky).
- If you can at least just get month and date, you have at least reduced the possibility set dramatically.
- Most people just put in their real birth year even for fake birthdays, so first try the combination of month and date and your real birthyear.
In order for that not to happen again, always use the right IP to access the account. They get locked like that because your location is diffrenet from where it was before.
And also whenever you get a new acc write down the DOB and set a security question, so that you can recover it easily.
haha, the second I logged on without disconnecting Overplay I knew it was game over!
No issues getting the Ad accounts back.
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