Getting someone else's text messages on my gateway!?

gramps28 wrote:

If someone is still texting that number it's still going to go to the router since it's assigned that number. When I got assigned my phone number I was getting all kinds of calls and text for the old user but luckily I was able to respond to them the they stopped.

You can try contacting Tmobile support to see if there's a way to block them.

I have no interest in stopping them since I will never receive any texts for me on my gateway and so have no reason to ever look at them (other than for a free private reality show).  As I said, it is not good for grandpa Arron's for his texts to be sent simultaneously to multiple devices (his actual phone, my gateway and who knows what other devices).

And it's bad for anyone else who T-Mobile is sharing their texts with strangers. No way to know if its happening to you. I'll give you 1,000 to 1 odds Grandpa Arron doesn't know I'm getting his texts.

The key would seem to be why/how are texts sent to one number get sent to multiple devices of multiple people. Since the earliest text was in March and I had this gateway for many months before that, if in fact Grandpa Arron really does have the same phone number as my gateway (your speculation and somewhat refuted by texts I send to that number not showing up on my gateway), T-Mobile issued him that number despite knowing it was already assigned to my gateway.