Strange issue with SMS - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey Guys,
Hopefully this is in the right place, if not my apologies. But i have been experiencing some strange issues with SMS on my S3 recently and i can't put my finger on where the issue is coming from.
I'm getting a number of duplicate contacts in the conversation list, for some reason my conversations will randomly get split into their own threads. It's start to get incredibly frustrating to sort through. The screenshot shows the problem.
I had this on a much small scale a while back and managed to fix it for a while by doing a backup of my SMSs and then when i looked at the backups files i noticed that the address was formatted different between conversations. So i edited the file and fixed all the addresses manually, deleted all my SMSs and imported the backup and the problem was fixed.
But now it's happening again and attempting to do the same process again, all of the addresses are exactly the same so my previous method won't fix it this time.
Anyone got any ideas why this might be happening or know of a way to fix it? It happens in any SMS app (including stock google and the samsung one as well as any third party apps) it continues to happen after a complete wipe of my phone and starting fresh.

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