Is it Just me or has anyone also thought of the Dangers involved in this practice?

Just imagine, u buy a new line and register it. Next thing u know, some strange numbers start calling your phone and asking to speak with some random name (Angela, my sister, my aunty, wife etc) and you keep telling them "wrong number" I'm sure this isn't news to anyone who's just recently bought an MTN sim card. It can get very frustrating at times. For instance, I've had to throw away a sim card for this same reason: it apparently belonged to an Abokki, which meant I kept getting Abokki-ish calls asking to speak with that Abokki. And he must have been famous too. So u can imagine. I threw the line away in frustration. My friend gets transaction alerts on his line with the bank info of the previous user all readily available to him.

So is this legal/proper/sensible/right? And why isn't anyone doing anything about it? I mean, what if someone buys a line that used to belong to a wanted person (either wanted by law or by underdogs) and then suddenly finds him/herself the victim of threat messages, legal persecution, stalking etc.

I haven't observed this with other Networks. Just MTN. So I dunno if its a legalized practice or just some in-house nonsense MTN is doing. Too many customers apparently.

This has been happening to me an I just came online to confirm.

Two days ago, I bought and registered an MTN sim. I called it and it was already registered on Truecaller. I was surprised. Guess what? At the point of writing this, about 3 people has called trying to speak to their uncle, and friend. I'm frustrated right now cause I intend using it as a business line.

Why is MTN recycling numbers?