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Unable to access secondary account details

BVNTL
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Like a lot of Virgin customers I have few other secondary accounts that I opened under my original primary account when it was NTL (Taken over by Virgin) but I  can't access my secondary accounts now, I'm only able to delete them but I need to change the password. I'm not very computer literate but I have followed some of the advise that I've seen but  I still am at a loss of what to do. Can anybody please help, thank you. Barry

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coenoby
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@BVNTL wrote:

 I have followed some of the advise that I've seen but  I still am at a loss of what to do.


I have posted this a number of times so you may have tried this already.

Virgin Media have changed the way you reset the password on a secondary email account. There are 3 options:

1) You can do that from the "My Virgin Media" account of the secondary email account.

So, sign in from this link https://my.virginmedia.com/home/signIn   enter the secondary email address and existing password when prompted.  That will take you to the relevant "My Virgin Media" account for that email address rather than the emaiI account itself.

Then navigate to the "Account details" page by clicking on the "Update settings" tab and then you'll see the "Account details" tab. Scroll down that page and you will see a place to edit the password for that secondary email account.

2) If you cannot go via that "My Virgin Media" route you can try the stand-alone password reset link https://www.virginmedia.com/my-virgin-media/forgotten-details/password  but you will need to answer 2 security questions.  That allows you to change the password for the secondary address and a confirmation will be sent to your primary address.  Sadly, many people report that process does not work and the screen does not move on after you type in the security answers and press enter. 

3) The back stop is that you will need to ask VM staff to reset the password for you either via the 150 phone line or by waiting for one of the Forum Team (VM employees who support this forum) to pick up on your post.

Coenoby

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coenoby
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@BVNTL wrote:

 I have followed some of the advise that I've seen but  I still am at a loss of what to do.


I have posted this a number of times so you may have tried this already.

Virgin Media have changed the way you reset the password on a secondary email account. There are 3 options:

1) You can do that from the "My Virgin Media" account of the secondary email account.

So, sign in from this link https://my.virginmedia.com/home/signIn   enter the secondary email address and existing password when prompted.  That will take you to the relevant "My Virgin Media" account for that email address rather than the emaiI account itself.

Then navigate to the "Account details" page by clicking on the "Update settings" tab and then you'll see the "Account details" tab. Scroll down that page and you will see a place to edit the password for that secondary email account.

2) If you cannot go via that "My Virgin Media" route you can try the stand-alone password reset link https://www.virginmedia.com/my-virgin-media/forgotten-details/password  but you will need to answer 2 security questions.  That allows you to change the password for the secondary address and a confirmation will be sent to your primary address.  Sadly, many people report that process does not work and the screen does not move on after you type in the security answers and press enter. 

3) The back stop is that you will need to ask VM staff to reset the password for you either via the 150 phone line or by waiting for one of the Forum Team (VM employees who support this forum) to pick up on your post.

Coenoby

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Hi @BVNTL

Welcome back to the community 

Sorry to hear you are having issues with your secondary accounts. I can see that you have marked coenoby response as the answer. Please let us know if you are still experiencing any issues have you have tried the steps kindly provided above and we'll investigate this further. 

Thank you @coenoby for your support with helping this customer's concern.

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Carley

BVNTL
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Hi, thank you for your response.

I'm still unable to access one of my secondary accounts and would be grateful of some more help please. 

Thanks

Are you still experiencing the issues after following the steps advised by coenoby? If so, let us know and we'll be happy to take a closer look.

 

Rob

I will send you a Private Message BVNTL to get this looked into further, looking forward to hearing back form you.

 

Rob

Zach_R
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Hi @BVNTL,

Thank you for reaching out via private message so that we could investigate and assist you further with this. I'm glad that we've now been able to resolve the problem you were facing.
 

Please do let us know if there's anything more that we can assist you with.

Thanks,
 


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BVNTL
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Thanks again for all the help

You're welcome BVNTL, if you need us again in the future please don't hesitate to get back in touch or post on the forum.

 

Rob

Excellent advice and the same has happened to me. It would have been sensible if VM had bothered to inform its customers  but customer service does seem to be poor and getting worse