HT1349 Why does my iPhone connect with someone other than the person I am texting?

Can someone explain why when I text someone from my contacts I get someone texting me back and I have no idea who it is.

Try to set up the phone as new device and to rule out a software error, don't use the backup after that.
If the phone works without problems, restore from the backup. If the problems are coming back, set it up again as new, this time adding the 3rd party apps back one after the other, one of them must be causing the freezes.
How to back up your data and set up as a new device

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