Unknown texter

[Linville]

Wow WhichBlair, It must be quite alarming that someone has your mobile number and specifically offered you iop services from a text!! 
Did they say who they were, not I want to know who, just if they did?

Could it be a google thing? They do targeted advertising based on data they collect from your searches...Though I very much doubt thats this is the case!  I wonder how on earth they associated your number with iop's?!

I did read that more than one iop was hacked/compromised and had customer data stolen a while back, maybe this is where it comes from? 


Still, it is very unnerving that they have your number at all, let alone shot you a text of that nature!!

Any respectiable vendor worth their salt would surely not have the need to send marketing texts, let alone take that kind of risk!!

Probably just chance scammers...But still, very strange indeed!!

They did identify themselves. Appears to have come from an area code here in the U.S. But you never know. It's definitely creepy. I can PM you (or anyone else) the name they used. I'm tempted to find a public phone somewhere and dial that number.

Yeah, WhichBlair, Like you think the number is most likely spoofed and not real.

But it could be interesting how it comes up, still.

They can have programs that generate false numbers and use them to call from anywhere in the world and  set it up so that it appears local or say from Portland, Or.