Locked out of account

Scrub Wrecker · Jul 2, 2017

Long story short, my dads email was the email linked to the account for recovery purposes but because he passed away recently I can't use his email to recovery my account as I don't know the password into it, instead I tried to use my own phone number but
that takes 30 days to come into effect, so now I'm locked out of my account with no way of getting back in.

:)

Toxic Raven · Jul 2, 2017

Locked out of account

I would recommend calling support.

support.xbox.com/.../contact-us

Kimberlu82 · Jul 2, 2017

Locked Out of Account

Support requires you do to that form at least twice, its tedious and feels stupid but really that's the fastest and correct way to get a WLID reset so they make you do it. Then only if you can verify all the info on the account with support can they escalate
your case to get a password reset which can take a few days. Are you sure your using the correct WLID first? Also WHEY ISOLATE what are your options for resetting? Do you have an email reset link option? If you no longer have access to that old email try resetting
that, working backwards. THEAWAKER777 unfortunately used an ISP which is the worst, ISP/SCHOOL/MILITARY emails are the worst to use for the WLID because once you lose access you can't get it back. Also if anyone does know the password to their account, but
when they sign into account.live.com and get the message "Your account has been temporarily blocked" or something like that you need to go to

windows.microsoft.com/.../hotmail-support that's for help with blocked accounts if anyone needs that.

Meerkat Matt

Just an update, we EVENTUALLY regained access to the account by giving the old serial number of his xbox and going through the escalation team on 2 more occasion. Suffice to say he could not access his profile for around 2 weeks of the school holiday.

Not very impressed with this one little bit.

Lord Rob UK

Hi CRYINchitis316,

Looking on the MS forums at people with similar issues when their xbox live account get blocked they recommend the following to unlock your account email address:

Please follow the steps below:

1. Click on this link. account.live.com/ResetPassword.aspx

2. Click on the third option: I Think Someone Else is using my Windows Live ID.

3. Select Reset your Password option.

4. Enter the Microsoft account you are trying to recover.

5. Enter the characters you see on the picture, and then tick on Next.

6. Click on I can’t use any of these options.

7. Re-enter the Microsoft account you are trying to recover. Under Where should we contact you?, Enter an email address that's different from the one you're trying to recover.

8. Click on Next.

If you passed, you'll get the reset link right away to your alternate email account entered on step #9. If the system needs further validation with the information you have provided on the questionnaire, it may take 24 hours.

If you have already been through this process and its been longer than the 24 hours the I would recommend sending a tweet to @XboxSupport.

Hope this helps

Regards

BoA

Nursemorph

Can you not just reinstall the Authenticator? I assume you have already tried that but just wanted to check just in case:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/microsoft-authenticator/

No actual clue if you can simply reinstall it and hey presto! or whether it needs more.

MindOfTim

You need to contact the customer support team directly, we cannot do that for you as it's against Microsoft's terms and conditions. If you have also forgot your password, try to think of any previous passwords, purchases, when the account was made as the
more evidence you have that it is your account, the quicker they can sort things out

Ricardo Lechuga

you will need to wait 24 hours before being able to attempt again

Locked out of account