Hey, yes I'm a reporter as well, though in college. But I got a text from this number before, same story, said he knew me blah blah. Really strange.

Had very similar experience as those described previously.  Received an out-of-the-blue, and inappropriate, text message from this number today, saying that I was "a mature and beautiful girl." I asked who it was, and he said his name was Mike Adams.  He said that he was "the Mike that said I have nice hair".  In my research for trying to figure out who this person was, I came across this website.  Ninja said to check your LinkedIn profile to see if Robert Fenstermacher (aka, in my case, Mike Adams) did recently request to connect, and sure enough, he did.  I accepted his request being that he claims to be in the same field of work as me (health field).  Now I know that he was only trying to connect with me (and plenty of other women) to stalk me/us and just be a total creep.  

What is the best authority to report this incident to? This man needs to be stopped.  It's so incredibly creepy.

Any links to his LinkedIn pages?

I am a reporter and I just received a text from "Rob", saying I'm a kind and beautiful girl...and that he lived near Boston. This is a weird trend going on. I just asked him how he got my phone number, so we will see if he responds...

Received a text from this number saying I was a "kind and beautiful girl." The person said his name was Rob and we met around my college campus. Thankfully I googled the phone number and read this forum so I knew this person was some creep. When I called him out on his bluff, he stopped texting. I am also a young reporter so I think he potentially gets our phone numbers off of our reel resumes because my phone number is not on LinkedIn.