Bumble verification code on fiancé’s phone

[Kim266]

My mind is all over the place because of something I found in my fiancé’s phone and I don’t know what to do.

Two days ago I was looking in his deleted folder for a text I’d sent but accidentally deleted. I was trying to register him for something. In the deleted items was a Bumble activation code. It said something like ‘your Bumble activation code is . don’t tell this to anyone’

I immediately started shaking and I couldn’t believe it. I handed him the phone and told him to explain the text. He said he couldn’t because it wasn’t him and he didn’t even know about it. He’s adamant that he didn’t ask for the code and that he hasn’t been trying to talk to other women.

I went on the App Store to see if Bumble was on his phone. It wasn’t but there was a cloud icon next to it. However I can’t draw any conclusions from that because he downloaded it first in 2020 before we met. We met on a dating app so I know he was using them in the past.

As an experiment I tried to download it on my phone but when deleted, it just showed the past date when I originally downloaded it. I don’t think there is a way I can prove it for sure.

I googled and apparently there is a Bumble verification bot, as others have said they’ve received verification codes from nowhere, but I’m sceptical because it’s never happened to me or anyone I know.

I can’t stop worrying about this. We are long distance at the moment so I’m not there all the time. He could be doing this and I’m unaware but he’s never done anything like this before.

does anyone know if it’s possible to receive a spam text like this with a verification code? Should I believe him?

He’s now saying it wasn’t in the deleted folder even though I saw it with my own eyes. But there is still a chance it’s a spam text and I feel like I can’t end a good relationship with no definite proof. He denies again and again that he’s done this and says I should trust him. I don’t know what to do.

He probably joined it when he said before he met you. What's the date on it?

@Maddy70 it was dated the end of august this year, a day after I left after visiting him. He also says he never used Bumble anyway (we met on tinder so could be true.)

@Kim266 This makes it even more obviously he’s lying. He’s now saying it wasn’t in his deleted items. You KNOW it was. This is where they play tricks with your mind to make you doubt yourself. If it was spam; he would have said oh yeah I got a weird message and deleted it. He hasn’t done that. He’s denied ever getting the message even though he deleted it. He’s now denied it being in his deleted items as he realises he can’t explain not seeing it if he deleted it. If you don’t want to end the relationship over this that’s completely up to you but don’t be in denial about it. He was looking elsewhere. It may have been a momentary stupid idea that he regrets. He is not going to admit it though so you will never know the full truth.

cmon. You can't end a 'good' relationship with no definite proof. You KNOW what you saw. If you are willing to forgive that- then fine, but please don't settle with being gas lighted. A whole lifetime of that awaits.

Oh no

He’s now saying it wasn’t in the deleted folder even though I saw it with my own eyes.*
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So... he's gaslighting you

You literally saw it. And he's denying it.

No good relationship including gaslighting.

Sorry this isn't what you want to hear.

Even if it is a genuine, if I found this on my husbands phone it wouldn't occur to me to think that he was cheating. I would believe it was something random he didn't know about. So I guess you need to ask why you don't trust him and if that lack of trust is logical. Good luck.

Hi. I know this is an old message but I came across it because I just received this exact text (and looked the exact same) to my phone number and I was trying to see if there was a scam going around. I certainly didn't sign up for bumble so I believe there is a good possibility this was just a scam / bot text your husband got and he obviously deleted it because it as just spam. If he was deleting the text to try and hide something, surely he would have deleted it from deleted texts as well. Also, if he was truly on bumble couldnt you just search bumble and see if you come across his profile? Best of luck mama, Im sure it was nothing.

This happened to me on my phone....I thought it was spam and would have deleted it, but then I realized they sent me 2 messages in less than a week. I searched bumble scam, and didn't really come up with anything. I did not even know what bumble is prior to searching after receiving these messages. So I really don't know what's going on and why I'm receiving them either.

i’m just received a text today that looks exactly the same supposedly from bumble and i do NOT have a bumble account and do not have the app. i googled it to see if anyone else experience this and it brought me to this page. i figured id share my experience from the other side of things. my wife felt a little weird although we have a very loving and trusting relationship. but we talked about it, and i told her to quell any weird feelings we can go on bunble together to show her i don’t have an account nor ever had the app. there’s also reddit threads about this and apparently pretty common. maybe someone tried to creat an account with my phone number? or maybe they mistyped theirs when creating an account