Banned for changing my password while on vacation?

notlist3d

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Quote from: mybannedaccount on April 14, 2016, 08:03:13 PM

thanks. i emailed again. fingers crossed.

You might email every other week or something to make sure you are remembered. It's kinda a thing you want to do enough to be remembered but not a pain.

But sadly it can take quite a while. You can read other threads. With it being known security question does this it's not at the top of the stack (I don't think at least). So good news is you are not banned just locked. Bad news is these can drag on for quite a while.

mybannedaccount

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thanks. i emailed again. fingers crossed.

--Encrypted--

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hee-ho.

Quote from: mybannedaccount on April 14, 2016, 12:47:20 PM

can i get some help on this?

anyone?

you'll just have to be patient and hope that theymos will read the email soon. some people had to wait for months before their account get recovered.
~~also send an email again every 14 days if you get no reply (am sure an admin said this before. but I can't find the thread.).~~

Quote from: theymos on May 31, 2015, 11:04:05 PM

They should email [email protected] if they haven't already. (Their "account locked for security" message should have said this...) If I take longer than ~4 days to respond, they should resend their mail. It might not be necessary for them to sign using that address in particular.

it was 4 days!! my bad.

mybannedaccount

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can i get some help on this?

anyone?

Quickseller

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Quote from: mybannedaccount on April 13, 2016, 03:47:27 PM

Quote from: Quickseller on April 13, 2016, 03:43:14 PM

If you change your password via the security question then your account will get banned automatically. The reason for this is due to the fact that the answers to security questions were leaked when the forum was hacked last year. It looks like BadBear was active earlier today so it is possible that he might be able to help you.

interesting to have a feature similar to "click here to get banned"

yes i did reset via security question.. what now?

i guess i will wait for a mod's assistance. thanks

That is somewhat what resetting your password via the security is yes, however if you do not have access to the email address associated with your account and have no way to gain access to your Password, then resetting via your security question will get you a little closer to gaining access to your account again.

mybannedaccount

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Quote from: Quickseller on April 13, 2016, 03:43:14 PM

If you change your password via the security question then your account will get banned automatically. The reason for this is due to the fact that the answers to security questions were leaked when the forum was hacked last year. It looks like BadBear was active earlier today so it is possible that he might be able to help you.

interesting to have a feature similar to "click here to get banned"

yes i did reset via security question.. what now?

i guess i will wait for a mod's assistance. thanks

Quickseller

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If you change your password via the security question then your account will get banned automatically. The reason for this is due to the fact that the answers to security questions were leaked when the forum was hacked last year. It looks like BadBear was active earlier today so it is possible that he might be able to help you.

mybannedaccount

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long story short i was on vacation and wanted to browse the forum from my phone. forgot my password so i reset it and received the following. i have already sent an email there more than a week ago with no response.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/tss-202431

someone please help.

Sorry tss, you are banned from using this forum!
For security, your account has been locked. Email [email protected]

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