Hello, thank you for contacting Howly! I am here to help you today!
May I know your first name, please?
*****
i was hacked and now can’t receive any emails
Nice to meet you, *****!
What is the name of the service you refer to?
My aol mail account and it also affected my Messenger account.
So what exactly is happening when you are trying to access it? Do you see any error messages?
All I see is no new messages….and that’s not normal for me! 😁
Got you
What troubleshooting have you done so far?
I’ve changed passwords and have done a lot of cussing..
Have you tried to restart your computer?
I’m working off of an iPad. I shut it off for a couple of hours, then restarted. Same problems
Got you
Let me get back to you on this, and while I'm on it, please stay in the chat, thank you!
thank you, Christine!
:)
Do you use the AOL app on your iPad?
Okay
Have you tried to reinstall it and log in to your account again?
yes, still no messages
Understood
Let’s try the following:
Done
It says that this account has already been authenticated…
Can you check this:
Thank you
now should I try to reinstall?
Have you deleted the account using the instructions I sent?
Now, please, try to add again using the instructions I sent you above with 6 steps
Done
Do you have this error : account has already been authenticated?
not this time
So, do you have your account opened? What can you see there?
Still no new messages ☹️
Do you have a chance to use another device? It can be a phone, computer for instance
I tried my phone- says no new messages
Got you
Just a moment please, I'll be there for you shortly. Please stay in chat while I'm on it, thank you!
Thank you
Working on your issue
Can you check the Spam folder, is it empty as well?
There’s stuff in the junk folder….
Do you mean there are emails?
Are that emails that were previously deleted by you?
No- they seem to be new messages, looking at the times…
Okay. Check if those are your missing emails
they could be…
You can try to send the email from any other email address and check if it appears in Spam folder
Thank you SO much, Christine, for all your hard work and patience!! I truly appreciate it!
I am so pleased to see your issue got resolved!
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