I also keep getting emails with instructions to turn off the two-step verification. I'm still locked out of my WhatsApp and every time the timer resets and I try to put in what looks like the valid code it tells me that I have recently requested a code and that it won't work again and it resets the timer. Is that likely to have done anything? I'm thinking of phone cloning. At that point, I wasn't too sure what was going on and I'm pretty sure I put at least one of these fake codes into my WhatsApp when asking for the verification code. There was a flurry of SMS messages and phone calls only one from 'WhatsApp' and others from all sorts of own numbers with generated codes. Next thing I know I was logged out of my account with messages saying that I had requested my verification code. I never received a message asking for a verification code but I did reply to one of her messages. Thankfully I set up the two-step verification code at that point. My friend contacted a mutual friend via Messenger to say not to fall for the same trap. Yesterday one of my close friends fell victim to the scam where she sent a verification code to someone purporting to be a friend.

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