The mail must go through. Snail mail at least. I’ve had email with aol from the beginning of time. Well, internet time anyway. And I never switched to the glamor babies like gmail simply because after all these years people now how to find me. It would be great if you could have your email forwarded like the post office does, but apparently that is just a dream for the future.
I bring this up because when I tried to log onto my email account I got a message that it has been “blocked” due to “suspicious activity”. Hmm. So, at first there was a screen for changing my password. The security questions it asked were the last four digits of my SSN and my birth date. That seemed plenty suspicious to me because that kind of personal info can get you past most gatekeepers (like bank accounts). Concerned someone was Phishing, I logged off aol and tried again. This time it didn’t ask the security questions, just said I was “blocked”.
There was an 800 number provided (lot of good that does me in Korea!). Well, I’ve called it on my dime 3 times now and got the same message about “due to unusually high call volume” I have to call later.
I had the bright idea of sending them an email to inquire as to what was going on, but when I tried to log on I got this message about my account being blocked…
Time to switch to Gmail, my friend. High capacity, great organization and archive-search features. And yeah, you can set up your AOL account to forward emails to your new Gmail account, so you don’t have to tell your old friends/contacts that you’ve moved camp.
I’ve actually had a gmail accont for quite some time, just never used it because of the forwarding issue. Assuming I they ever put the “online” back in AOL, I’ll make the switch. Thanks!