[mbillie1]

I dunno about actual scam scams, but there are lots of loose companies that will just add numbers to their lists, you might end up getting charged by them, especially if the numbers don't show up as recognized. Try responding with the word "stop" (which afaik is like a legally required stop trigged with any text-based company, like those goofy latenight rington commercials you see) ...

Alternately go to your local Sprint/Verizon/Cingular store and ask them to look up the number and tell you whose it is. They obviously won't do this (against policy), but I mean if you find a chick who works there and flirt with her, or invent some sort of creative story to get it out of them, you should be able to accomplish this. Or just explain the situation and ask them to tell you if it's a real person or not. Otherwise there are no known text messaging scams that I am aware of, although there definitely could be.