I think the end game is to get a google voice account which ... • Aaron Parecki

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Scott Hanselman 🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/shanselman • Aug 6
I’m looking into it, apparently they register a Google voice in your name, your reply with a code and they take over your number and cause mayhem https://news.trendmicro.com/2021/11/04/google-voice-scam-facebook-verification-code/

I think the end game is to get a google voice account which gives them a number to use for other scams. You need a real phone number to verify a google voice account. I don't think it has anything to do with you personally, or using your name/identity in the further scams.

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- Scott Hanselman 🇺🇦
Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  They'd get an error message trying to verify a google voice number with another google voice number and I'm sure they would just give up after that and move on. My main number is a google voice number I've had for almost 15 years now 😅
  
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  I guess that’s why I never understood it bc I use a Google Voice # for transactions like this.
  
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- Scott Hanselman 🇺🇦 twitter.com/shanselman
  
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