Sorry for the difficulties.  It's possible that the link expired or that there was a glitch in the system (I'd imagine the latter, since you received the original link garbled).

I'd recommend sending an email to support@tgif.network, explaining what's happened.  They should be able to manually verify your account or generate another email (hopefully with a good link!) from the system so you can self-verify.

73,
Joe, WB3IHY