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wally34949 Jun 19th, 2012 08:45 AM

Help! Hotmail keeps blocking my account
 
I'm in Europe for four weeks. I've had a Hotmail account for ten years and now I am getting a message that says, Hotmail has blocked your account. We will send you a text to your mobile phone. I have not activated my phone for Europe travel, so I got another Hotmail account and it worked for a week. Now I get the same message. I really didn't want to activate my mobile phone for Europe due to horror stories I have heard about people who forgot (and I will) to turn off their moble phone.

Any suggestions?

mztery Jun 19th, 2012 09:30 AM

if you are getting this message it's because Hotmail thinks you are using your email to send spam - either because of where you are logging in from, or someone has actually phished your account. With he mobile phone code , why don;t you just try to log in with your phone right there, use the code and then turn it off before you do anything else? I have the same protection on my gmail account and i don't know of another way to verify it.

mztery Jun 19th, 2012 09:30 AM

PS

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ily-blocked-ui

greg Jun 19th, 2012 11:00 AM

Are you using a VPN?

uhoh_busted Jun 19th, 2012 11:06 AM

Maybe you could set up a gmail account?


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