✎ Key Points:
» You can identify a locked Amazon account by receiving a message indicating suspicious activities or precautionary measures via email or during a live chat with Amazon support.
» Login to your registered email to directly contact Amazon or initiate a live chat, ensuring you clearly communicate the issue and request assistance to unlock your account.
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How to unlock a locked Amazon account:
You have the following methods:
1. Directly Send Email to Amazon Help
If your Amazon account has been locked, you need to ask for help to unlock your Amazon account. To do that, you need to send an email to Amazon Help using the mail ID that has been registered to your Amazon account.
But be sure that you’ve not received an email from Amazon already that informs you why your Amazon account has been locked. If you’ve got an email, then you can compose your mail as a reply to the mail directly.
If you’ve not received any email, then contact Amazon help by writing an email. In the mail, describe your issue in clear words and then ask for their help in recovering your account.
🔴 Steps To Follow:
Step 1: Open Amazon.com
Step 2: Next, you need to click on Need help?
Step 3: Then click on Other issues with Sign in.
Step 4: Click on the Account & login issues.
Step 5: You need to click on My Password isn’t working.
Step 6: Then you need to frame an email stating your issue and send it.
2. Initiate a Live Chat
Another way of contacting Amazon help is by chatting with an Amazon agent. You need to initiate a Live chat with an Amazon agent and then state your problem to the agent to recover your account.
Once your problem is clear to the agent, he will give you a solution to your problem and will tell you a method to unlock your Amazon account.
🔴 Steps To Follow:
Step 1: You need to first log in to your Amazon account from www.amazon.com.
Step 2: Next, you need to click on the Contact Us button and then you’ll be able to see the Start Chatting now button.
Step 3: You need to click on the Start Chatting now button.
Step 4: Then send a message and you’ll be able to chat with an Amazon agent via the chat. Provide all the details correct to the agent and tell the issue.
Step 5: You can either send the documents via email or type the information that the agent asked for in the chat via message.
3. Upload Your Identity Proof
Your account sometimes gets locked when you’ve not uploaded the necessary documents and identified proofs. Once you provide the necessary documents that prove your address, name, and other information on the account are true, your account will be unlocked and you’ll be able to use it again for shopping.
These identity details need to be sent to the Amazon registered e-mail account. Many fraud emails claim to be from Amazon but they aren’t. Don’t send your private information to any other email address other than the registered email of Amazon or else you can get into trouble.
🔴 Steps To Follow:
Step 1: You need to open the last mail from Amazon and then go to your Amazon account from it.
Step 2: You’ll see the ‘Your account is locked and orders are on hold‘ message.
Step 3: Click on the Add document button.
Step 4: Then upload the documents and submit them.
Step 5: Within a few days, your account will be unlocked and your orders will be processed.
Why Does Amazon Lock An Account:
These are the reasons for this:
1. For Suspicious Activity
If Amazon suspects some unusual activities on your account, then you’ll not be able to use your account anymore as it will be locked temporarily. If you’re purchasing too many unbelievably high-priced items in one day, it can occur suspiciously.
You need to be careful with how you use your account to avoid getting locked. If your order numbers are usually high, then it can raise a suspicion of fraud or spam which will immediately cause your account to get locked.
In that case, you need to verify your identity proof to use it again. You should never place more than 30 orders in a single day with one account.
2. Amazon Locked for Misuse
Amazon accounts also get locked for misuse. If you’ve provided the wrong information while signing up for your account, it will get locked within a few days. Amazon follows clever techniques for verifying whether you’re providing your information correctly or not.
If it finds out that your information such as your shipping address, billing address name, etc is wrong, your account will be suspended till you rectify it. You need to provide your identity proof and regain access to your account once again only after your account has been unlocked by Amazon.
Misusing the account can also cause it to get banned permanently after getting a few warnings.
3. Multiple Failed Logins
If you’re not able to log in to your Amazon account and try to log in with incorrect information multiple times, Amazon will lock your account for some time as a warning for multiple failed attempts.
You need to keep your login information safe to log in to your Amazon account quickly. When you fail to login into your account multiple times, it raises suspicion which is why your account gets locked.
4. Too Many Refunds
Asking for too many refunds can also get your account locked. If you’ve placed too many orders and have placed returns for those items, Amazon has to pay for all those shipping fees although these returns are free for you.
In those cases, Amazon locks your account as a warning. You need to be careful with how many returns you’re placing.
