I’ve had exactly the same thing happen to my Yahoo account. Fortunately, I had backed up all the emails and haven’t used that account in years. I get the same thing. It says enter your email and will send the verification code to that email address. I Evan made up a fake one that nobody could possibly have and it says it is sending the email to that address. Obviously it is not checking to see if that is the recovery email on the account. This all started when it forced an update of the app through Google play. I think it is a scam to force you to pay for recovery help
WARNING - I’ve been trying to change email addresses and make passwords bat crazy at sites I visit but 1 of 3 will zap an email to the hacked yahoo email without asking so they’ve screwed me all over again.
1 of the remaining 2 won’t accept account changes so you have to make a new account while losing everything you’ve ever done there.
Any left will let you chat online but Mohamed can’t type English. Thankfully, Pablo Miguel and Chantese can type English.
Thanks for everyone’s help.