Why my contacts have been deleted

This morning all my contacts had been deleted from my iPhone why did that happen and how can I get my contacts back on my phone.

Where do you backup your contacts?
If to iCloud, is there another device sharing your Apple iCloud ID? If there is, anything done to contacts by the other device will be synced to your iPhone contacts. The same is true of anything done to contacts by a computer on icloud.com. Go to icloud.com and check to see if your contacts are still there.
If you back them up to a computer through iTunes, then you can recover your contacts by re-syncing them from your computer to your iPhone.

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Dont bother posting to this one. I have checked plenty of other posts and there are millions of them. The basic problem is that apple don't seem to understand the meaning of sync. Sync usually means the meshing of two databases so that they match, instead this band of half witted, jean wearing, morons decided that the software should basically default to deleting one database and replacing it with another.
In every other post the answer always given is gee why didn't you have a back up, that's why I was trying to sync in the first place you dim witted moron.
ITunes *** the big one and is obviously there solely to lock people in and sell, sell, sell! This seems to be the apple mantra.

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The iphone is designed to be synced to your computer regularly. Your contacts will be in whatever program ( outlook, address book, etc) that you have been synxing. Sync them back.
If you have failed to sync them, then they are likely gone. You can try restoring from backup.

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I haven't done anything to my iPhone but it somehow deleted all of my contact! I need you help you my only chance!?

What sort of visa card is it, debit or credit ? Debit cards don't appear to still be accepted in all countries (and even where they are it seems that not all are accepted).
For a card to have a chance of being accepted it needs to be registered to exactly the same name and address (including format and spacing etc) that you have on your iTunes account, and have been issued by a bank in the country where you and your iTunes account are. If it is then you could check with the card issuer to see if it's them that are declining it, and if not then try contacting iTunes Support (these are user-to-user forums) and see if they know why it's being declined (but you might not be able to use a debit card) : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Account Management
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Where do you backup your contacts?
If to iCloud, is there another device sharing your Apple iCloud ID? If there is, anything done to contacts by the other device will be synced to your iPhone contacts. The same is true of anything done to contacts by a computer on icloud.com. Go to icloud.com and check to see if your contacts are still there.
If you back them up to a computer through iTunes, then you can recover your contacts by re-syncing them from your computer to your iPhone.

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ICloud keeps duplicating my contacts, any of which I need to delete anyways. Is there a way to delete multiple contacts at once? I have been deleting them one at a time, but they keep reappearing.

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- What version of the Operating System.
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- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
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Can I retrieve contacts that have been deleted?

You posted this in the BlackBerry space, so I am assuming you have a BlackBerry of some sort... if you've used desktop manager or BB Protect or another backup application, then you can retrieve contacts from the most recent backup.
Otherwise, you may be out of luck, unless their information is in your recent call list, or recent texts.
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Hi, Farticus10.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I would recommend the steps in the article below. See the section labeled Verify that the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is installed > For Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 > Update the Apple Mobile Device Driver.
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
If the issue persists, try the remaining steps the attached article.
Cheers,
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