Cannot verify a gmail account that I'm trying to create

AyJaydee

Because of the need to separate different types of mail (financial, shopping, social etc) and also because I am receiving a lot of phishing scams to my hotmail account, I am trying to set-up several gmail accounts.  I am given to understand that gmail allows the creation of up to five accounts for one user. Well I originally had one.

When setting up the second, I was prompted to enter a phone number to verify that I am not a robot. So I used my number and got a verification code by text, to complete the set-up. 

When it came to creating the third account, I got a message saying that I had used this number too many times, so I used my wife's phone number instead.

When trying to create the fourth and using my wife's number, I again got the message saying that I had used the number too many times.

I don't have any more phone numbers and it would not be appropriate to use friends/relatives phone numbers. How can I set up a fourth gmail account?

I posted the above entry on the Google Account Community forum several days ago and so far have not received a reply. I find it most infuriating, that when it comes to needing assistance from businesses (and internet services seem particularly bad at this), they do not offer assistance at all.
Instead, behind the 'Help' option is a limited selection of very basic standard answers. For anything else more complex, they direct you to their user forum. In other words:
"Talk to the hand, because the face isn't listening"
I also tried again several days later, in case it might be a timing issue; no such luck there.

Has anyone here done what I am trying to do? 
Thank you.

Billxx

You could use this instead:

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tempus_fugit

AyJaydee said:

Because of the need to separate different types of mail (financial, shopping, social etc) and also because I am receiving a lot of phishing scams to my hotmail account, I am trying to set-up several gmail accounts.  I am given to understand that gmail allows the creation of up to five accounts for one user. Well I originally had one.

When setting up the second, I was prompted to enter a phone number to verify that I am not a robot. So I used my number and got a verification code by text, to complete the set-up. 

When it came to creating the third account, I got a message saying that I had used this number too many times, so I used my wife's phone number instead.

When trying to create the fourth and using my wife's number, I again got the message saying that I had used the number too many times.

I don't have any more phone numbers and it would not be appropriate to use friends/relatives phone numbers. How can I set up a fourth gmail account?

I posted the above entry on the Google Account Community forum several days ago and so far have not received a reply. I find it most infuriating, that when it comes to needing assistance from businesses (and internet services seem particularly bad at this), they do not offer assistance at all.
Instead, behind the 'Help' option is a limited selection of very basic standard answers. For anything else more complex, they direct you to their user forum. In other words:
"Talk to the hand, because the face isn't listening"
I also tried again several days later, in case it might be a timing issue; no such luck there.

Has anyone here done what I am trying to do? 
Thank you.

Are you using a paid Google service, because if not then there is no real requirement for them to offer business-level support. It's a free service after all. 

As to the question, from what I can see you *should* be able to use 4 accounts with 1 phone number, but you don't seem to be getting that option so I'm not sure what is going on here. Any reason why you need so many accounts?

SiliconChip

Any particular reason why you want to stick with gmail accounts? I have throwaway accounts with a number of providers, but for the last couple of years I tend to go with gmx.com for new ones.

flaneurs_lobster

A phone number is not a requirement when creating Gmail accounts, just skip round the request. 

AyJaydee

Having read an article on the Forbes website, they advise at least four, partly to keep different types of email activity separate, e.g. work and leisure.  Also, compartmentalised for added security.

No, it does not have to be gmail, I just chose it because I already had one that I was not using.

Yes, I do need to give a phone number. After entering the chosen address name and password, it requires a phone number for verification and will not permit progress until I have entered one.
If nobody can answer my question, then I am not going to waste any more time.  

PRAISETHESUN

AyJaydee said:

Having read an article on the Forbes website, they advise at least four, partly to keep different types of email activity separate, e.g. work and leisure.  Also, compartmentalised for added security.

No, it does not have to be gmail, I just chose it because I already had one that I was not using.

Yes, I do need to give a phone number. After entering the chosen address name and password, it requires a phone number for verification and will not permit progress until I have entered one.
If nobody can answer my question, then I am not going to waste any more time.  

I've just gone through the motions to try and set up a new Google account, and when I got to the phone number stage I got a fairly obvious prompt to skip it... 

flaneurs_lobster

Yep, I found this too, but since @AyJaydee is not wasting any more of their time on this I didn't bother posting (again).