Google Account Disabled

Guys, this morning I saw that my phone was showing a warning symbol, checked and saw that my google account had been disabled and asked me to login via a web browser on a computer. logging in directed me to a captcha code and then the browser loaded my Gmail. I promptly changed my password and activated setup two step verification.

everything looks normal right now. I wonder why my account got disabled in the first place?? I checked for similar issues and most of them are related to youtube or adsense violations only..

can anyone tell me what actually happened???

EDIT 1 : BTW my brother had asked me to send ~~two~~ three bulk mails to a list(his contacts). about 120 contacts so that would be about say ~360 in total, few bounced (19x3=57) and rest went through.

EDIT 2 : sorry for the little bit misleading title, I want to make sure other with similar issues can find this thread.

EDIT 3 :

:facepalm:

.. this is what I found

In an effort to fight spam and prevent abuse, Google will temporarily disable your account if you send messages to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages. If you use a POP or IMAP client (Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail, e.g.), you may only send a message to 100 people at a time. Your account should be re-enabled within 24 hours.

If you communicate with the same group of people on a regular basis, you might be interested in Google Groups.

If you send a large number of undeliverable messages, we suggest verifying your contacts' email addresses. It's also important that everyone you are sending mail to is willing to receive it.

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Policies

So.. the Google disabled your account if you send 500+ emails or get lots of bounced email then your account will be disabled.

Mystery solved in 20 minutes :lol:

lesson : Don't send bulk mail or spam from Google account.

Good to see, Google fights for spams.

What I didn't get is that why you needed to sent bulk mails in the first place? Couldn't contacts can be sent in a single Zip file? Am I missing something?

^^ it was a news info needed to be sent out to the contacts as BCC's.. my brother's company has a bulk email facility which they use in office. but his didn't have access to it as he was at the event and asked me to send it instead..

RCuber said:
Guys, this morning I saw that my phone was showing a warning symbol, checked and saw that my google account had been disabled and asked me to login via a web browser on a computer. logging in directed me to a captcha code and then the browser loaded my Gmail. I promptly changed my password and activated setup two step verification.

everything looks normal right now. I wonder why my account got disabled in the first place?? I checked for similar issues and most of them are related to youtube or adsense violations only..

can anyone tell me what actually happened???

EDIT 1 : BTW my brother had asked me to send ~~two~~ three bulk mails to a list(his contacts). about 120 contacts so that would be about say ~360 in total, few bounced (19x3=57) and rest went through.

EDIT 2 : sorry for the little bit misleading title, I want to make sure other with similar issues can find this thread.

EDIT 3 :

.. this is what I found

Source

Policies

So.. the Google disabled your account if you send 500+ emails or get lots of bounced email then your account will be disabled.

Mystery solved in 20 minutes

lesson : Don't send bulk mail or spam from Google account.

Dayum!! They should ban instead of disabling the account.