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Receiving someone else's text messages
Oh my goodness! First T-Mobile is having problems porting in my daughters number. We need her to have her phone with her at school so we told her to put in the sim card and use the temporary phone nu...
The temporary number she received can obviously receive texts for that number. If the person who previously had the number didn't let their contacts know that they their number changed. Then this might be why that is happening. Once the port is complete, she will stop receiving texts for the temporary number. For now, she might want to block those numbers or just send them a curtesy text saying like, "I'm not sure who you are trying to reach, but I just got this number. Please stop texting me.".
All numbers are deactivated before being recycled. How long they stay deactivated, really depends on the demand for that area code and locale. Being close to the holidays, people tend to message more of their contacts that they don't keep up with as often.
