Are you using the /message-store filter?
You will get notified when you send a message out or receive a new message. You will also notified when a new message is read or mark as unread. Here is how the notification body looks like:
// when I receive the first message
{"accountId":37439510,"extensionId":1426275020,"lastUpdated":"2019-09-16T23:41:54.472Z","changes":[{"type":"SMS","newCount":1,"updatedCount":0,"newMessageIds":[1081360191020]}]}
// when receive the second message
{"accountId":37439510,"extensionId":1426275020,"lastUpdated":"2019-09-16T23:42:15.261Z","changes":[{"type":"SMS","newCount":1,"updatedCount":0,"newMessageIds":[1081360669020]}]}
// when I read both messages
{"accountId":37439510,"extensionId":1426275020,"lastUpdated":"2019-09-16T23:42:51.166Z","changes":[{"type":"SMS","newCount":0,"updatedCount":2,"newMessageIds":[]}]}