Password Shenanigans

Trying to log into my LNER account to book a train ticket.

It uses your email address as your account name for login purposes, and when I first set mine up I accidentally typed gmail.co.uk, rather than gmail.com

Every attempt to change that over several years has been met with "That email address is already in use"

I had another try to change it, and it suddenly occurred to me that it's not objecting to the email address, it's telling me there's already an account using my correct email address, probably because that's the one I use for passenger assistance emails. So I can forget about changing the .co.uk email address and just log into the .com one.

Only I don't know the password for that - I don't even know if I've ever used it, rather than had emails sent to it.

But it's my email and my account, so just throw in a forgotten password request, wait for the email to my phone and update it from there.

So back to the PC, change the login to the .com address, enter the new password and

"Too many login failures, this account has been temporarily locked."

*Headdesk* 

And I didn't get the password wrong, it had the option to show what you'd typed and I'd gotten it right.

*le sigh*