Why am I receiving calls and messages meant for a previous owner on a tourist SIM card in Sharm El Sheikh?
Based on 1 discussion with 2 participants · Last activity: 5 days ago
TL;DR
This is usually normal: tourist numbers with a limited validity period may be deactivated after about a month of inactivity and later officially reassigned to another visitor. Calls for the former owner do not by themselves mean the SIM is fake or that your data has been stolen.
What the community said
A tourist SIM number in Sharm El Sheikh may have belonged to an earlier visitor. Once that visitor leaves and the number expires, it can be put back into circulation, so their old contacts may still call or message it.
7 days ago Tourist SIM card
According to travelers’ reports, if a visitor does not renew their SIM after leaving, it can stop working after roughly one month. The operator may later sell the same number to another tourist.
7 days ago About 1 month
Unexpected calls and old messages on a newly bought number are not, by themselves, evidence of a fake SIM, a leaked number, or missing data allowance. It is a normal consequence of mobile-number reassignment.
7 days ago