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We are going to explain how to recover your WhatsApp account if you lose it, so that if you fall into scams such as the six -digit code and steal access to the account, you can recover it and start using it again.We will also help you in the event that you lose your mobile or SIM, and with them access to your account.

We are going to start with the simple part, to ask you to close the account when you lose the mobile sim.And then we will tell you how you can use that same mechanism if you make the account, so that you can recover it without problem and use it again.

What should you do if you lose your mobile or sim

In the event that you lose or steal your mobile or SIM card, so it will be very difficult to recover your WhatsApp account with it.The first thing you should do is call your operator to block the SIM card, partly to protect all other apps, and elsewhere they can not log in with your WhatsApp account on other devices.

Then, you have to send an email to support@whatsapp.com, which is the official support account.Inside the mail, you have to write the text stolen/missed phone: Please deactivate my account with your phone number.The number has to be sent in International Code, with the +34 in front if it is a Spanish number, or your country's account in the event that your SIM is from another country.

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With these data, WhatsApp will deactivate your account, and as you have disabled the SIM will not be able to activate it again.And then, simply with the new SIM you can activate a new WhatsApp and start using it, warning people of what happened in case someone had written to your other account before deactivating it.

Here, it is important that you always have a WhatsApp backup made in the Google or Apple cloud, so that you can recover these conversations in your new account.The WhatsApp account is different, but that of Google or Apple will be the same.

Simply recover your stolen account

WhatsApp does not allow you to connect to two devices at the same time, so if someone has received your 6 numbers key to enter your account, you will have to log in to your mobile again and expel that other person from yours to recover your account.What happens is that if someone has just connected from another mobile the process is blocked, and you can't recover your account immediately.

There are times when SMS sending can be temporarily block.If you do, it will call you an automatic answering machine, reciting the code without stopping to write it.The call button can also be blocked, but it takes less to be able to be used again.

But when there is another person using your account this method does not always work, so you are going to have to first stole WhatsApp to recover it.To do so, you must send an email to support@whatsapp.com, which is the official support account.Inside the mail, you have to write the text stolen/missed phone: Please deactivate my account with your phone number.The number has to be sent in International Code, with the +34 in front if it is a Spanish number, or your country's account in the event that your SIM is from another country.

When you write this email, WhatsApp will close all the sessions of your account, including that of anyone who has stolen it.With these people outside, now you can recover your number again.For this, he enters WhatsApp again, and write your phone to log in.

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When you do, you will get to the screen again in which you say you need to write a code.Here, after fighting with attackers that have stolen your account, it is possible that the options to send you the code are temporarily deactivated, and that you have to wait enough.Therefore, patience, and remember that the Call me button will take less to reactiv.

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And that's it.When you follow these steps you should already get back to your account.Now, if you have not done it before, it is vital that you activate the verification in two steps as we explain here so that it is more difficult to steal the account, and that you try to learn from what happened to not facilitate anyone to access it.

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