So appearantly someone created an account with apple using my email since yesterday been getting dozen of emails of login attempts with verify code and now when i try reset password for that account it says need verfiy account from number that isnt mine so how do i reset password using my email only?

edit: i dont own any apple product my only way is use website and when i did i got the message in picture ,all i want is reset this account password so noone uses it anything wrong/illegal

I have an old 7 plus that I’ve decided to sell (downsizing) but I haven’t used it in a few years and have no idea what the Apple ID password was. So that means I can’t turn off find my to wipe it so I can sell it. I’ve tried selecting forgot password through both the settings and at iforgot.apple.com but it just sends me an OTP which I need to reset it. Problem is it sends the code to the email associated with the account which is an iCloud email and of course I can’t access the iCloud email to get the code to reset the password because I can’t sign into iCloud without the @!,$;:/ password! Am I stupid or was this system designed by a sadist? How on earth do you fix this if it seems you’re locked out at every turn?