I am trying to recover the password for an old email account and I am stuck at what seems to be a very serious security roadblock. Outlook directs me to some kind of form that requires me to fill in certain information such as name, birth date, country/region. Now those are all good and fine but apparently that is not enough and it also wants things I simply do not remember, like passwords used, subjects of your recently sent emails, names of any folders you've created, other than default folders, and email addresses of contacts you've recently sent emails to.

After filling out what I could, this is the response I got:

We recently received a request to recover your Microsoft account *** Email address is removed for privacy ***. Unfortunately, we were unable to verify your ownership of this account using the information you provided. Microsoft takes the security and privacy of your personal information very seriously, and we are committed to protecting the personal information of customers. We have taken the additional step of blocking your account *** Email address is removed for privacy *** until we can verify you as the account owner. This will prevent any further use of the account, and protect you from any possible malicious activity.

I understand the need for security and all but this is driving me nuts. I need to recover the password to this account as well as the account itself so I can check ONE email that was sent there recently. Unfortunately I cannot have this particular email sent to my new account so I need to get into my old one. The problem is that it has literally been YEARS since I've actually tried logging in as I really only had the account created to fulfill the typical requirements for signing up on various websites and programs, and on top of that, I used to have the password and login info for it set to auto when I actually DID need to check anything inside, which is why I can't remember half the information this form is asking me for. What do I need to do to prove I am who I say I am and can someone PLEASE help me recover my password/account?

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