Are there any text message scams?

[Klompy]

I almost never use text messaging, but tonight I've received a few that really confuse me. They consisted of asking what I'm doing, and even mentioned a local bar, but the confusing part comes with the fact that I have no idea who's number it is, and that when I actually tried to call the number instead of texting it the number comes up unrecognised. I'm still getting text messages to which I'm still flirting back in the form of text, but without knowing who this is it's starting to bother me. I'm really starting to wonder what's going on. It's a local number so I'm not paying rates or anything, and I think it's a real person but I can't be sure. Is there any way of figuring out if this is a real person?