Just crazy...a little off topic but kinda the same, we’ve been looking for a puppy and if you look on Craigslist, it’s nothing but scam after scam.
One of the sellers was selling a shihtsu puppy for a decent price but asked to email them with a phone number to avoid “scammers”. Ok, so I send him a phone number and then get a text saying something like. “This is the seller with the puppy, are you real?” I say “yes”. They then say “please tell me the verification code from a separate text to validate you are real”.....hmm
So basically, this person is trying to add your phone number to their google voice and google sends you the text to validate and take control of the number, which they’ll then use for more scamming. Sneaky, but luckily I’m up to date on these things. He then texts, “don’t worry not scam”.
I have google voice also and proceeded to add his number on my end so he would get a verification text....he went away.