Unlock Temporarily Suspended Outlook Account

• Outlook Mail “Your account has been temporarily suspended”

  Unblock your temporarily locked Microsoft Outlook Live Account due to suspicious activity. Unlock your suspended account with this guide.

  Microsoft is very strict in keeping its products and services up to its policies. If Microsoft finds any suspicious and unusual activity on Windows Live! account then it will strike out the access to the service. To help protect your account from fraud or abuse, Microsoft might temporarily suspend your account. The access may be blocked for a temporary period till the account is verified using a code.

  Following activities may lock down your account which may last from a minute to 24 hours depending on the behaviour of your account usage detected by the system.

  • Receiving, deleting, or downloading large amounts of mail via POP or IMAP in a short period of time.
  • Sending large number of un-delivering messages
  • Account access to third party apps causing misleading activities without your concern
  • Using Windows Live at many locations.

  How to Unblock your Locked Microsoft Account /Outlook/ Hotmail?

  Method I

  1. Log in to your suspended Microsoft account.
  2. When prompted enter any phone number to receive the security code. The phone number may not necessarily be the one registered with the account.
  3. After you enter the security code you received on your phone, you’ll need to change your password to complete the unblocking process.
  4. Make sure you enter a unique and strong password.

  Method II

  Actually, every time you sign in to your account, cookie data is taken up by the Microsoft and is stored on its servers. These cookies and cache data help for further references for log-in. But when you enter an incorrect password cookies undergo deletion and when the limit number of attempts are crossed the cookies expire. Thus locking your account.

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