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This morning I randomly got an email that an account has been made under my email (my name is not Gregor). The email I censored is my email but it's a hyperlink that I do not want to click on as I am afraid that this may be phishing.

However, I went to apple to try to make an account with my email, and it said it's unavailable because it might already be in use.

What should I do?

Edit: I have never owned an apple product in my life and never made an account on anything related to them as far as I can remember.

So, my dad lost his iPhone yesterday (with my iCloud in it) and we tried to locate the person that stole it but as soon as I did, maybe 30mn later I got an email saying that the Findmy feature has been deactivated on that iPhone

Now my problem is, somehow the account in my main phone (not even a new phone, I had this phone for over a year) is blocked and apparently I need the other phone (which I just lost) to reset the password

Can’t install apple support because I need the apple account in the App Store And tried to recover it by mail and phone number but I can’t get any SMS

Hi all, my elderly father in law is having this issue. The phone and account are both his.

I found a password of his that gets us past the account login screen, but after that it says the account is locked. I initiated steps to recover it using a phone number as well as an email. I’ve gotten emails back that state someone from Apple will call at a certain time but it has never happened.

This has been going on for weeks and I’m at a loss for how to proceed. Is there better way to get in touch with support at Apple or get a response?

So I bought my wife her first ever apple product (an Ipad A16) to do some drawing/digital media creation. We created an apple account and set up the new ipad, went to the app store and purchased a specific app that she knew she wanted, after which she also installed netflix/hulu and everything was fine. She only used it for about 20-30 mins after that just testing out her new app and deleting some apps she knew she wouldn't use. The next morning it said she had to sign in again, but gave us "an unknown error has occurred" after entering the password. We can use the ipad and use the apps we have already downloaded, but we cannot download anything else. We went online to icloud.com to try and sign in, and it said her account had been locked for security reasons. We had to fill out an unlock request and send it off, and this morning we got an email back saying the request had been denied. Now we aren't even given the option to request the unlock again, when we put in the email/password it just says "Your account has been locked and cannot be used". I called apple support and they said removing the activation lock "might" work, but we cannot sign in to request it and we cannot sign in to request a refund for the purchase we made in order to justify a new account. Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.