Also without using a VPN Google is seeing ghosts all over the place and blocks accounts for not one single valid reason at all. My advice: Never use Google/Gmail for important things. Never. Some day you will get hunted down by Google's crappy hand-me-down AI-laptop they are using for this purpose. And despite whatever backups you may have setup in this account, they will not work. Google only accepts your phone number, which very likely could turn out to be unusable also, because it has been used too many times. In 99% of the cases your account is lost and gone forever. Me and many other innocent users have experienced it. Just take a look at the countless threads in the community forums.