Sender of sms is unknown, although it is a contact

Several sms's received to my iphone only show me the number but not the name of the sender. although i have these numbers in the contact.

I have this problem with one contact. If she texts me, it never finds the contact. I've tried deleting it and recreating it even using the "create contact" within the SMS app. No luck. I even added the number to two other contacts (one at the top of my contact list and one at the bottom). Still no luck. This has gone on for this number since before I got iOS 4. I have an app that searches every field in every contact and looked for the number to see if its in there without a name, but it doesn't find it (and I tested this app against a test contact I put in without a name). It found it by number.

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I have noticed that a couple of my contacts with iPhones that I would normally iMessage to now I can only SMS text to.
It seems that in both cases, previously I received and iMessage from them and when I replied, it failed so I chose to send it as SMS.
Now, even, though I have deleted the Message threads, whenever I try and send a Message to them it insists on sending an SMS text instead of an iMessage.
How can I force it to start sending iMessages instead of SMS messages again to these contacts?
Thanks in advance for any help on this as it is really frustrating.
Rgds
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Its of high importance for me to find out the user id of an unknown person sending my wife SMS's through SKYPE. The number showing up from the sender is +442032892491. Upon googling, i found that this number is linked to Skype so if any user sends a sms without setting a number in profile, the default number shows up as above. Its very important for me to know who has been sending messages to my wife mobile. Can any one please suggest. I also tried sending a message back from my wife mobile to the same number +442032892491 but not sure if its actually reaching there.
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Look after yourselves people, because it feels like maybe Skype won't be looking out for you!

Hi there,
I just got the same issue, seems there is a heavy security problem with our Skype accounts. In two days time, 185 sms were sent using my account, fyi, here are some of them:
November 8, 2013 06:30   2013-11-08T06:30:11+00:00   3,53878E+11   Ireland - Mobile   SMS   0.089   00:00:01   0,089   EUR
November 8, 2013 06:30   2013-11-08T06:30:11+00:00   3,53877E+11   Ireland - Mobile   SMS   0.089   00:00:01   0,089   EUR
November 8, 2013 06:30   2013-11-08T06:30:11+00:00   3,53876E+11   Ireland - Mobile   SMS   0.089   00:00:01   0,089   EUR
November 8, 2013 06:30   2013-11-08T06:30:11+00:00   3,53874E+11   Ireland - Mobile   SMS   0.089   00:00:01   0,089   EUR
November 8, 2013 06:30   2013-11-08T06:30:11+00:00   3,53873E+11   Ireland - Mobile   SMS   0.089   00:00:01   0,089   EUR
I sent a complaint to Skype today, I guess there's little hope on a refund... changed my password and stopped to automatic recharge, we'll see what happens in the following days.

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