I get fake text messages from time to time, baiting me to reply. This would confirm that I have a legit cell phone number which I suppose the scammers can sell to other scammers. Typical msg: "How have you been? Long time no see".
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 5:00 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I dug into this a bit and apparently the usual scam is they want to get > your phone number and then they will try to port it or set up a Google > Voice account for that phone number. When the confirmation code gets sent > to your phone, they will ask for it to "verify you are authentic" or some > such reason. If you send them the code then they can take over your phone > number. > > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023, at 14:35, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: > > I don't know what the scam is but perhaps they will want to conduct the > > transaction outside of the FBM, thereby avoiding selling fess (if any?) > > or skirting any buyer fraud protection that FBM may offer. > > > > Or maybe they want just your phone number to start harassing you with > > text message and robocall scams. Phone number by itself should not be > > *too* valuable, but a known working/active phone number is worth more > > than a random one. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023, at 13:29, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: > >> Is there some kind of scam where a potential purchaser gets your phone > number? > >> > >> Just listed something and had two responses asking for a phone number. > >> Seems fishy. > >> > >> > >> Rick > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
