Unknown iPhone keeps showing up on Find My iPhone

An unknown iPhone keeps showing up on Find My iPhone on my iphone 5. I removed it, but it came back in a few days. I then erased it and then removed it and it came back again. I then erased it, removed it and changed my Apple password, A week later it showed up again.
I did sell an iPhone 2 years ago but i erased it and removed the SIM card before shipping. I dont know if the one that is showing up is my old phone or some other iphone.
Can someone please provide some information as to what is going on?

If it comes back, then go to iCloud.com, log in with your Apple ID & password, and place the offending iPhone in Lost Mode and set a passcode up for it.
Then, change your Apple ID password to something very complex (using a mixture of capital letters, lowercase letters, numbers and maybe even some special characters), making it at least 12 characters long.

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