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Overnight, I received dozens of emails from Google Payments (noreply@google.com) notifying me that contact emails are being changed on a Payments profile that either I never created or is extremely old. These are actual Google notifications, not phishing attempts.

It started with my actual old email address (a Yahoo address I've had for 20+ years) being swapped out to a gtempaccount.com addresss, which appears to be the attacker moving the account into a Google Workspace.

How they did this for a yahoo.com email address without my approval is not clear, but I am 99% sure my Yahoo email is secure. I have taken the standard precautions anyway (changed password, confirmed 2FA which is already enabled)

Since then I've received a flood of similar notifications with different email addresses cycling through the same profile.

I can still log into my original account but it shows as the "@gtempaccount.com" suffix, and there doesn't seem to be anything useful I can do within the account.

Despite extensive searching and chatting with Google's support bots, there is no clear place to report this issue.

Any suggestions as to where this can actually be reported or other actions to take are very welcome.

In reading the discussion about Tahoe's release and Apple's prioritization to meet its ship dates over its delivering actual new value to customers has got me thinking about what keeps me there.

I am thinking about this more in the angle of moving to a simpler device, not a switch to Android which feels to me like it's trending toward just a different walled garden.

After considering, my only main barriers for switching:

* Cloud Sync / Backup

Particularly for Photos, Messages and App Data, the data is auto-saved seamlessly. If I lose my phone, I can be back on a new one in a few hours.

* Calendar and List Management

As primitive as the experience still is with Siri relative to modern AI assistants, having my to-do and shopping list sync'd to my devices and being able to add to them with voice commands is an essential.

* Electronics Interface Apps

A few devices I have (solar charge controller, leak detector) require an iOS/Android app to use. There's not a great way around this, but keeping an old phone as a controller is an option.

It's really a much shorter list than I thought it would be. There are definitely some apps that I use whose experience would be decidedly worse if I had to use them in a browser (YouTube, Spotify, Maps) but it feels almost worth trying.

If there were an AI-focused simple phone that could solve the first two and offered a modern AI voice interface, I would be very interested to try it.

I am curious to hear other's opinions.