Why are my contacts getting deleted?

as i was texting one of my friends lats night i noticed that all the sudden her name didnt show up but her number insted.
i went to check on my contacts and found only a few names and none of them i regonnised
i then loged into icloud and went to contacts
i found the same strange contacts there
then i decided to restore my phone to backup
that solved the problem and all my contacts were fine... for a few seconds
the very next time i looked at my phone the contacts were strange again
i even tryed restoring again and quickly turning off icloud and that kinda worked but i noticed that almost half of my contacts were mising already
how do i refresh the contacts in icoud from the contacts in the backup in my itunes?
why did this happen? Is there an action i could have taken to prevent this from happening?

Nomoreapple4me wrote:
I've posted several discussion questions & how strange they get deleted? All I'm trying to let everyone know is how pathetic apple customer service is.
I can't help it if I was lied to & scammed.
If your posts are being deleted, it is because they are in violation of the Terms of Use (https://discussions.apple.com/___sbsstatic___/apple/tutorial/tou.html), which you agreed to when you signed up here, even if you didn't take the time to read them.
If you have a technical support question or issue you would like assistance with, post it. If you want to rant and complain, you will need to go elsewhere.

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