Unblock sender in juno

Dear Community,
I am writing you with an important, urgent request for help. My job and my heath are at stake.
I will not dwell into details, but I have been framed on a whatsapp scam made by my ex (who is also a coworker) at the end of January.
She sent me an automatic disappearing message on whatsapp - basically, a temporary message, which self-destroys after 24 hours. I won't explain what the message was saying, but she was sharing a personal information.
The thing was weird, because of the modality through which the message was sent, and also because she has blocked me for months and treated me like shit, for no reasons. Being unblocked and receiving such message was weird, something was off, so I took a screenshot before the message disappeared.
Once I answered to the message, she disappeared for 2 days. Then she answered that she did not know what I was talking about, denying to have sent any message to me. At that point, I shared the screenshot. Then, she stopped answering.
2 days later, I was summoned by my boss in a room, as she has reported me to the company. Basically, she claims that she hasn't sent to me any message, and that I am inventing everything. Moreover, as a personal info was shared on that message (and screenshot), she is claiming that I have stole that information and she feels endangered by me.
As you can imagine, I have been living under a lot of stress in the last 2 months, as the case is still under investigation. I feel terrible because I am risking my job, which I achieved after years of sacrifices, and also because the accusation is very heavy on a personal level. I have been requested by the company not to talk to her in the meantime - I was not planning to, anyway - and in the only meeting I had with HR, so far, they said I am not an accused person, and they only want to understand what happened (and I understand their point of view, 100%).
Nevertheless, I received a new meeting request from HR for next week, with more people involved from different countries (I work in a multinational), in the meantime she refused to have a meeting with me with an a company person as intermediary. My boss cannot tell me anything, as he claims not to have the permission to communicate with me on the topic. I haven't been sleeping well at night since weeks, and I must take a medication to relax and not being eaten alive by anxiety.
So, this bring us to my request of help: is there any reliable tool to retrieve messages on whatsapp without having a backup available, including the disappearing ones? I have been tried chatback but it did not retrieve anything at all, from any sender (but my laptop is 10 years old, maybe that's the issue) and I know there is also Tenorshare Ultdata Whatsapp Recovery (but I have read here on Reddit that it is a scam). Could you please help me save my job and my serene life? I swear on my life this is what happened and I did not do anything bad at all. I have loved her dearly, I have no idea if she is completely crazy, or her account has been stolen temporarily. Either way, she is being evil in not listening to my claims, and insisting on my responsibility on this story.
It would be helpful even to know that I have no way to retrieve the message, if that's the case, at least i will stop looking for solutions which don't exist...
Very important information: as mentioned above, unfortunately, I can no longer rely on whatsapp backups... :(
Thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart, to anyone who will help me.
I have finally subscribed to Reddit for this specific and urgenti need, but I promise to be and user also for the time being. I do not want to look as an opportunist, i like the webpages and i have been waiting to subscribe for months :)
Yours, Alex

So here is the situation.
I've been helldiving with my friend. I'm on PS5 and he is on PC. 3 days ago I got game crashed mid mission. And when I tried to rejoin it said I can't join the lobby, even though there were free spots in my friends lobby. So he tried to join me and couldn't.
Then we thought "what if we unfriend, and then friends each other back". So I removed him from friend list, but when we tried to send friend request - they are just pending. Like my friend request is pending on his side without him able to accept me. Then when I cancelled it, he sent me his request, and I would smash the accept button, but the request itself would remain in pending, with friends list being empty.
So we thought "maybe some servers problems, let's call it a day and try tomorrow after work"
Yesterday I came back from work and found a request pending for 23 hours. I tried to accept it - nothing. Meanwhile my friend was playing with some random dude. So he asked him to add me friend list. He did and I could accept him no problem. So we were able to play together even after the random dude left.
So while in party and with voice channel connection we tried to send invites to each other some few more times, both from "recently played " list and by searching for friend code. Still getting problem with accepting (it just won't accept despite hammering down on the accept key)
So my friend had genius idea "maybe we are in eachother blocked list?"
Block list was empty. So we tried to "block-unblock" to be sure. But as soon as we blocked eachother, we disappeared from correlated "recently played" lists, but haven't appeared in blocked list. It being still empty.
And when trying to send a friend request, it just won't appear on the recieving side wile being pending on the sender's side.
Then while doing an operation, my game got crashed on last mission in operation, when I was activating last hellbomb on automatons bunker. So that was the end for our play session and chatting together.
Like I know the most easy solution would be find a third friend to a group that will play with us while we are free to play. But I would like to find a solution to the problem in hand and I honestly have no idea where to ask.

Hello, I want to preface this by saying that this is my first time posting, and that English is not my first language, so please forgive any mistakes or clumsiness on my part.
I (21F) am not the most tech-savvy person, I know the basics but my parents (56F-64M) are even worse so they usually come to me regarding technology-related questions. It all started when my mother came to my room asking me if I knew how to block someone on Facebook. I do not use facebook so I could not give her precise instructions and asked her to give me her phone so I could do it myself. This is not an uncommon occurrence, I have blocked people for my mom before, and she had no qualms about letting me see/do it myself. This time, however, she was very skittish and hesitant, dancing between giving me her phone or not; in the end, I managed to convince her and she asked me to block a man whose name was not familiar to me. I could not see much of their prior conversation, but his very last message was an "I love you."
To be honest, I did not think much of it at the time, surely this was just a common case of a man crossing the line, hence the request to block him. I asked if she wanted me to erase the conversation as well, and she enthusiastically agreed.
Fast forward to barely a day later, I was doing her nails in my room and she was on her phone distracted the whole time. She was actively chatting with someone, and hiding her screen whenever I leaned in. I could see the message bubbles but not the name of the sender, and when I asked who she was talking to, she evaded my questions or acted like she was not listening to me. To be perfectly clear, this kind of behavior is very strange coming from her; since the day I could remember she has never tried to hide a conversation or act so evasive about what she's doing on her phone, more often than not she is the type to blast voice messages at full volume and read messaged out loud so this all looked strange to me.
The same thing happened twice more, and I started to get suspicious. Whenever she was on her phone I could see the same text bubbles and I just felt that something wasn't right. I am really not proud of what I did next, I promise. Long story short, I did some snooping on her phone, and it turns out she managed to unblock the man (I swear I didn't know she knew how to do that in the first place), and once again, I saw an "I love you" from him. I was pressed for time so I didn't scroll up their entire conversation, but I haven't seen her saying it back to him; however she did say she would "listen to his song on the road", and other things of that nature. In another conversation they were talking about his divorce and dispute with his wife (I'm not sure how detailed I should be about their conversations), and the tone was very... Tender. I was disturbed.
I am disturbed. I don't know what to do or how to approach this. Just a few minutes before I started writing this I was sitting with her on the couch and I saw a notification from him pop up with something along the lines of "I miss you". I never thought my mom would be a cheater, and to be quite frank I don't know if this counts as cheating in the first place? My parents have been married for 31 years, and like every other couple who has lasted this long, they've had problems on the way, but it was never bad. Should I talk to her? Should I wait and see? My heart feels uneasy, I lack experience in this domain, so here I am.
TLDR; My mother has been exchanging questionable messages with a mystery man who has declared that he loves her. What do I do?

NOTE: I don’t work for meta, I simply did what i listed and it worked for me. I won’t know the answers to all your questions. I knew less than you and managed to solve my problem with no support. Please try to resolve the issue yourself first as if you have no support. AND PLEASE ACTUALLY READ EVERYTHING BEFORE REACHING OUT TO ME. 80% of the messages I get are from people who did not bother to read my post. All the resources I linked also answer a bunch of questions.
I also update this post and add more links or new updates from other individuals trying out the method.
HOW TO REACH OUT TO REAL INSTAGRAM SUPPORT- i posted this initially in this thread linked here: but decided making my own post may reach more people
https://www.reddit.com/Instagram/comments/dnhh5w/comment/kij6ymf/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
**Please read this entire thing before DM me asking questions. I have explained like everything here (that's why its so dang long), you need to read this and follow the steps. Remember be Patient, Persistent, and Polite!!!!!!** I will answer you and help if you really need it!! $Tips appreciated :P
LINKS TO SIMILAR METHODS
https://www.reddit.com/Instagram/comments/dnhh5w/help_us_confirm_you_own_this_account_cant_log/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
https://www.reddit.com/Instagram/comments/vmva7s/how_i_got_my_account_back_when_i_couldnt_get_past/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
https://www.reddit.com/facebookdisabledme/comments/10hsrn3/got_back_my_account_instagram_privacy_policy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
https://www.reddit.com/facebookdisabledme/comments/10drtuu/account_unblocked_within_12_hours_after_request/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
https://www.reddit.com/Instagram/comments/dnhh5w/comment/kobpwu7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
STORY
I got locked out of my instagram account after I used a 3rd party app to find out who was following or unfollowing me. The error is instagram's fault. This triggered their security alerts and the suspicious activity caused Instagram to put your account in a mode where you can only get it back if you email a real instagram support person so they can escalate your issue to an Account Recovery Specialist. My method helps with my issue and other issues even 2fa lockouts or potential hacking errors.
Unreliable alternative options:
There are a many ways to fix your problem. You MAY get lucky if you try to use an incognito browser or utilize Firefox browser to log into your account or reset/change password. Those type of methods will only work for certain people but will solve your issue VERY fast. BUT for the most part many people will need a REAL meta support member to help them.
If you buy Ads on facebook or on instagram, you are automatically assigned a real human being support person to help you with your account, same goes for getting Meta verified—but it all goes to the same goal of getting a real person to talk to so you can request a SPECIALIST.
(Also heard that if you email their public security email ([security@mail.instagram.com](mailto:security@mail.instagram.com)) every single day for a few months they might respond 😂😂😂)
Warning:
My method will work best if you have full control of your account and the emails and phone numbers and all verification information they will ask you. If your account was hacked or you don’t have all the information needed to verify your identity, instagram might not help you.
Because you’re talking to a real person you can still try to get a specialist to help. But with the account being hacked it may be harder. They have to be able to verify your identity so having access to your original email or phone number is important!!!!
THE SOLUTION
I got my account back in 7 days: I contacted instagram's Privacy Operations team by claiming I needed help with accessing my data through https://help.instagram.com/contact/505535973176353 I selected I had a data access issue and then selected \*"I don’t have an Instagram account and I want to access my data".*** This gives you an option to **create a ticket** and get in contact with a real person. You can also select any other option related to privacy operations because any of those options give you to a Privacy Operations support ticket.
The goal, is in this method is get in contact with a real instagram support person, who you can try to convince to help you with accessing your account or forwarding you to a specialist to help!!!! This skips the months of waiting and emailing instagram and hoping for someone to answer.
CAUTION:
DO NOT start your email off saying you cannot log into your instagram account and you need help recovering or accessing your account. They will immediately tell you they can't help you and potentially close your ticket and ghost you.
You need to making every communication related to Privacy Operations or they ignore you. State you need help with instagram's privacy policy or info about the privacy policy. This Privacy Operations team are real people assigned to resolve issues regarding privacy. A Real Person is assigned to you, you are given a ticket number, and they will email you regarding your issue and questions. Remember by law Instagram has to allow you access to all your data and information!!!! So keep insisting for access to your account so you can get your data!!!!
After I got a response from a real person, I told them I couldn't access my account but I needed data and information from my account. They will try to tell you to go to the Help Center to figure out how to access you account again. Keep NICELY talking to the person who is contacting you about the privacy concerns.
PRO TIP: in every email you send them always state and include that you would to be forwarded to a specialist or a support team that can help you with your account. You need a specialist it’s the only way to get your account back!!! Include a DEADLINE- like I need it before next month, they might respond faster, that's what I did.
Consistently insist that you need your data and information from your account. I told them I had a trial coming up that involved evidence needed from my instagram account including all data and information. Let them know that you cannot access you account no matter what you do with the help center, and this is where they started to help me. The person I was given for my ticket, sent all of my information and my concerns to a Specialist, who the gave me steps to verifying my identity and unlocking my account.
AGAIN THERE IS NO EMAIL I cannot give you the email they used to communicate to me--it doesn't exist
There is no public email or contact information for the person who helped me, a special contact thread is created for you by Facebook ( in an email) which will help you set up and reaccess your account. This took me 7 days to get my account back. It's about an email a day, with a weekend where there was no communication. Most work is done weekdays and business hours!!!
There will be a lot of back and forth emails with copy and pasted answers from the help center, but keep in mind no matter what they send you whether it be specific or just a copy and pasted response with links to the help center; there’s an actual person reading your emails and your thread and responding back. You just need to keep insisting your issue and wanting a specialist so the person finally sends you to a specialist team member. **Do not get mad or give up if you keep getting bot/automated type responses!!! Follow my instructions!!!!**
TIMEFRAME
They are slow. One email a day typically, two if you are lucky. Once you get the email regarding a new email request it will take between 1-3 days (7 days longest) to hear back regarding identity verification. After verifying identity, they will send a confirmation within 1-2 days. If you do not hear back from them, send follow up responses as much as you want. Make sure to log in to your account to check if they fixed it and did not notify you.
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS AND PRO TIP
—-try logging into your account/changing password at least once a day while you are going through this process of emailing back and forth. Instagram may unlock your account and not tell you or send a confirmation email after you verify your identity or even after you submit your new email.
If you mess up or they deny you— You can keep trying and starting over again. You get a new Support person or a smarter one!

1. Go to their contact page to submit a support request, just google it or try using the link I listed, asking for help with data/privacy issues. Choose you need your data and information but don't have an instagram account. https://help.instagram.com/contact/505535973176353
2. Wait for the first email which includes your ticket number from them, then respond to that email, explain your issue, continue asking for help on accessing your data and ask a lot of questions about how can you download your data, ask questions about the privacy policy, and to be sent to a specialist team member to assist you with your issue. Keep it relevant to privacy operations but mention you can't access your account and you need a specialist.
3. They will send you an email back that sounds like a bot, or it automated messages, but this is a real person just copying and pasting information to send to you in the email. They will tell you that their team cannot help you access your account, but Do Not Listen to This.
4. You're gonna have to repeat yourself a few times. It sucks! Respond back with the same issues you stated before, say that you understand that you need to log in to instagram in order to access your data, but you cannot access your account. Nothing in the help center works in terms of accessing your account. Ask the support to have your issue sent to a specialist team member, that can help you with your issues. Keep asking to be sent to a specialist team member, and to have you ticket forwarded to them--almost like you are asking for a supervisor or a manager
5. If they listen, You will be contacted by a specialist team that will help you out. They will send you an email asking you to provide them a new email not associated with any past or present IG account this means you are being sent to a specialist to get your account back.
   1. ——it may take 1-3 days (max 7) to hear a response from them. FACEBOOK will be the emailer. Look for that sender not IG. Sending follow up emails after is okay. Be patient and know that someone will get to you eventually!!! Mention a deadline like you need your data before next month.
6. The last few emails will be asking you to verify your identity, with a picture of yourself holding a note card with a handwritten code number alongside other personal details. I included my emails, phone number, device used, picture of my face and front page of IG account. If you don't have photos on your IG account of your face, you may face issues.
   1. After you submit your identity verification wait 1-3 days for response or confirmation. Log into your account everyday to check if its restored.
7. —- heads up —if you manage to get ur account restored---if the specialist verified you and sends you an email with a link to access your account, it might not work or be broken. But you can create a new password through the standard method of 'forgot password' and that’s how you can access your account.

—if you don’t speak English go ahead and try writing them in your own language!!! They will respond to you in your language. BUT English is a for sure method!
NOTE: If all fails. And you seriously can’t get your account back after a few tries with the privacy operations method, I suggest trying to open an ads account with meta and instagram or do something that involves paying a little money or being a customer to Instagram. If you open an ads account I hear you get a special support team, meaning a real human to talk to. They may be able to escalate your problem and have your account fixed especially if you pay the platform money. This may also work with paying to be verified or something. Just another suggestion but as I said in the beginning, I won’t know how to solve all your problems.