A few of my friends (GTBMuckface and BitchiBee specifically), and I'm sure MANY others, don't know or don't have the email address that they signed up with. I'm making this thread in an attempt to alleviate the millions of threads, even though they'll probably still pop up. Is there anything they can do, or are they SOL?

Mod note: Possibly an admin can help, once your temporary account has PMs enabled. Please provide as much proof as possible to demonstrate that you are the owner of the account you are trying to access: registration email address (even if you can't access it), DOB, infraction/warning history, people who will vouch for you (along with contact info for them if necessary), anything else you can think of that make it obvious that you own the main account.


Once you've had your account fixed up so the registered email address is one you have access to, you can use the password recovery form.

when did you become not a mod thac?

I don't have any idea what email account I used for my real user name. Help would certainly be appreciated.

If we can't verify their identity, then there's nothing we can do. At least in the short term. However, in cases where people we know personally can vouch for the identity of others, that will also work.

And if anyone is in las vegas, I'd be happy to allow access if someone is willing to allow me to keep a copy of their identification.

Is it possible you could just tell me what email I used to sign up because if I know which one I used I could probably get access to it.

OR

You have IP history right? Can you verify that way?

PS. Username: ludacris

Yeah, the email account I used to sign up with as steel108 has long been closed; at least I have no clue what it might be. Damn, it was 2006 so it was probably yahoo LOL

I'll personally vouch for edfurlong. Go ahead and reactivate his accounts. Thanks Mat.

It's possible there may be some other options, but it will have to be addressed later. Sorry about that. Hopefully there won't be too many issues associated with the outage and this issue will become top priority.

lol

What if a green mod can vouch for my identity, is that good enough?

my ip is the same as my main account..can we check that or something?

This is ridiculous. Your solution is to have everyone go visit you in Vegas?

I signed up for my primary account in college (nbajam) and no longer have access to my college email address which I'm guessing is what I used. So I'm going to lose access to all of my pm's that I had from my dealings in the marketplace?

Do you have a better alternative? I would be thrilled if you do.

In most cases that will be good enough for me. As long as it's not Dids.



kidding.

Yay!!!!

Scanned copy of drivers license? Anyone who's done business with me knows my name, and my email addresses should have my initials and name in 'em.

maaaaaaaaaaaaaan, you guys had years to reset your emails while you had access to your accounts, esp. if you were doing $$ transactions and your account is so important




hopefully mgmt can help you out here but it could be a big problem

Way to be helpful. We obviously expected 2p2 to have a major security breach and to never be able to access our accounts with our user name and password like we have for 8 years again.

I know when I change email addresses this is the first place I think of, because I get so many emails from here.

You were ALL instructed to change your passwords before the breach.
That would have meant fixing your email first which would have taken a minute.

I am being helpful and have offered my time to do whatever I can.

Well, there's absolutely nothing RW can do about the rules around this.

While I agree it sucks, you guys have to look at this from 2+2's perspective. They can't be giving account access to anyone who says the account is theirs. The only simple way to determine you are the account holder is the way they've done it, via the email account you registered with.

IP checks might be a possibility, but this could be a huge PITA, and won't work for everyone. Mat's said he'll try to come up with other solutions, but with all that's happened, he probably isn't able to spend a tonne of time on this within the first two hours of the forums being back up again. If you have some solid new ideas of ways we can verify you are who you say you are, we're all ears. Otherwise, you're going to have to give this a little time, unfortunately.

Can administrators view a users private messages? If so, being able to provide the details of two or three messages would enough to verify it's your account. Still has its problems tho

@ Rainbow and Bobo:

I just want to be sure about all of this. Prior to the shutdown and subsequently after, we were advised to change the password to 'any' account, if we had utilized the 'same' password.
As long as the email account used to 'originally' register for 2+2 did not have the 'same' password, we are okay, correct? So, I do not have to change my email address for 2+2, and only need to change the password for other accounts, if I used the 'same' password? Yes, or No?
I am very glad 2+2 is back, and yes, I did indeed miss it!
Thank you for your time and attention, koniki_1.

I don't believe they can without logging into your account - I know I can't. It's possible there's some way to find them in a database, but I'm not sure. Either way would likely a large PITA.

Here's the thing - you should assume a hacker has your login name, email address you registered with, and the password you used before the site was taken down. If you used that password with the same user name or email address anywhere else, you should change it.

Find your user id and under contact use the send email option

Then begins the waiting game