It was a text: "hi. a few messages arrived from your phone to my mom's temporary prepaid phone (insert my real phone number). please check your contact info; you got it wrong. thanks."

At first, I thought, "OMG! Some shady phone company gave this poor person's mom a number that was already in use." However, before responding to the text, I thought about it some more: "How would my sent messages appear in someone else's phone with allegedly the same number as mine?? If anything, my friend's messages would be arriving to that number." Therefore, this doesn't make sense, right?

I'm deleting the text right now, but I'd really love to report this scam so that others don't fall for something that could cost them money or simply an invasion of privacy. Good luck, folks!