Is it possible to change the email account associated with my phone/tablet?

[RustyKnight]

I have been getting tons of spam (over 100 a day this weekend) on the email address I used when I got my first tablet a few years ago. This email address is my Google Play account address and is now on my phone and two other tablets.

 

Does anyone know if it is possible to change this email address without losing my Google Play account and purchases? I didn't find the Google help pages much help (nothing unusual there).

[GRANDAD]

I had the same problem about two weeks ago and was advised to leave well along~~ do NOT reply do NOT unsubscribe~~ just DELEAT You should find that they soon stop or reduce greatly.

Good luck. Hope this helps others.

[RustyKnight]

By reading the Gmail help pages it looks like you can delete your email account without losing access to everything like Youtube, Play, etc. However I managed to find a phone number for Google Play and called that and spoke to someone there. He told me that if you delete your email account you WILL lose everything associated with the Play store.

Conflicting information on Googles part it seems.

 

I have been getting tons of spam sent to my address without a dot (myname@gmail.com instead of my.name@gmail.com), its as if someone doesn't know their own address or something. I even had emails from a solicitor regarding a divorce, it was a genuine company not a scam/spam link - I managed to contact them and they had got the email address wrong.

 

On advice from Google, I now have a filter set up so that everything I receive that doesn't have the dot in goes straight to the bin.