Google Contacts Duplicate Phone Numbers

[klasmeister]

Hi Community,

I'm having a very weird problem that I discovered through my Note 8's merge duplicate function.

Out of nowhere it appears that in my Google Contacts (using the Samsung Contacts app), some phone numbers of existing contacts were added to other contacts at random.

Whilst I can easily identify which is the wrong phone number for some contacts, it is difficult for others. In addition, a very large number of contacts is affected and it would therefore take a very long time to fix this manually.

Any ideas/suggestions welcome!!

 

[klasmeister]

Anyone?

EDIT: It appears that this only affects my Google contacts on my Note 8. When logging on to Google Contacts on my PC, everything appears to be normal.