Error
Application error
60423: Multiple contacts were found
Verify
Twilio returns this error when Verify resolves more than one contact from the lookup criteria in your request. Verify cannot continue until your request identifies a single contact record.
- Your request uses lookup criteria that are too broad or ambiguous, so more than one contact matches.
- You stored duplicate or overlapping identifiers across contacts.
unique_customer_provided_idvalues and channel values must be unique for each contact. - You stored or submitted phone-based identifiers in an inconsistent format. Verify and the Contact API require phone numbers in
E.164format.
- Send one unambiguous identifier for the contact. If you fetch a contact, use either
unique_customer_provided_idorchannel, not both. - Review your contact records and merge or remove duplicates. If the contact already exists, update the existing contact instead of creating another one.
- Normalize phone numbers to
E.164before you create contacts or start verifications, then retry the request. - If you upsert contacts through the Contact API, use each item's
correlation_idand response details to identify and correct problematic records before you retry.