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[CravenMaven]

I got my daughter a sky mobile phone. She's had it 6 months and periodically gets calls or messages from random numbers (she's under instructions to not respond, I then block). Sky says it does recycle old numbers, but leaves 6 months in between use. The tone of some texts tho, are definitely not "we haven't spoken for a year". Could there be digital crossed wires?

[Daniel0210]

@CravenMaven 

For your information there are very few (if any) new numbers. I joined Sky Mobile in 2018 and on giving my new number to friends and family my brother-in-law spookily already had my number on his contacts as someone he frequently contacted at the local council. 

All numbers are recycled although I can't confirm the 6 months time frame. 

[caesarome]

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@CravenMaven wrote:

I got my daughter a sky mobile phone. She's had it 6 months and periodically gets calls or messages from random numbers

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Have you looked at call blocking options on the phone itself as some have an option to block calls/messages from unknown numbers so those that are not in the contact list.

[CravenMaven]

There is one, but we'd have to put all the known contacts in again after switching it on (there may be other methods admittedly). It's more that I was interested to see if other people had had the same issue. 

[CravenMaven]

I could well imagine we've run out of new ones by now. And it was Sky themselves who say on the site that they wait 6 months.