Re: Lost access to MY Google account paying 10k
$10K for email recovery fee? that's lot of money bro, I hope it's comparable to your data in that email.
I guess you should really convince everyone that you will pay them 10K if they succeed. I'm just not sure about the amount you promised because basically you can leave at any time without bothering with this account again if it works. Should you be spending 10K on fees instead of create new email or spending 1K of them to contact google?
That's what I'm thinking as well. Unless there's important information on the email, otherwise the fee offering seems to be too good to be true.
I had the same issue in the past and was able to force Google into returning the account back to me, so it's definitely possible to recover the account.
But I'm worried that OP won't pay the fee after the account is recovered.
If you have experience with this and the only thing stopping you is him not paying, maybe OP could put the money on escrow. It doesn't have to be 10k, it can be less than that, like half of the offered money, but this way if someone gets the account back they will know they weren't doing it for free. Even if OP disappears, at least they'll get some of the money.
This is what google says you should do if the phone number was changed.
Go to the account recovery page, and answer the questions as best you can. These tips can help.
They will ask you for your last known password and phone number before it was changed. If that's correct you might be able to get the account back.
A lot will depend on whether you know the information on your account like your name and birthday.
I'm happy to do it with less amount and with escrow if needed, assuming OP is serious about it.
My only concern is that OP is not being serious about the offer and just came up with a random insane amount.