Why are my incoming texts being sent to a friends email?

I was given an iPhone 3gs about 6+ months ago by a friend, switched it over to my provider and have had no problems up until about a week ago. All of a sudden, all of my incoming texts started being sent to the friend's email address who gave me the phone, and I'm only receiving part of them. I've checked with both her service provider and mine and there is nothing that can be done by either. I know for a fact that the phone is no longer linked to the email address in any way that I can see, as the phone has been completely wiped clean and set up for me. Is there anyone who has had this type of issue or know how to fix it???

Incoming text messages as in SMS/MMS, or iMessages?
This must be for iMessages and if so, your friend needs to deactivate or unregister the iPhone for iMessage with his/her Apple ID.
http://holgr.com/blog/2011/12/howto-deactivating-imessage-on-lost-or-sold-iphone s/

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