Is this a new thing? Just got a text message from someone, who I don’t know and who didn’t identify themselves, shopping an OTTB for sale. Said they got my contact from a “list of eventing farms.”
Hope it’s not a new trend. I don’t want just anybody sending me texts hawking their horse for sale and blowing up my cell phone. For god’s sake, plaster that sucker all over facebook and leave me alone. 
More and more people don’t really know (or care to understand) which messaging technology they are using at any given time. Lines between text messages, messenger apps, email are getting increasingly blurry as an app like FB Messenger will offer to handle all your text messages for you.
I see this first hand all the time with my 82 year old mother, but at least she has the excuse that she is 82.
Too much of that and I’ll remove my phone off listings. I personally found it obnoxious and would never do that.
It could also be a pure spam scam, along the lines of the Nigerian Princess money laundering scam. The scammer spins a too good to be true deal of a lifetime, then at some point tries to get you to wire money to them. Of course there is no horse (or princess) involved.
I get spam text responses to ads all the time–“Is your item still available and what is the lowest price?” Assume it’s the same Nigerian/Paypal scams as would come via email.
As the horse wasn’t all that cheap, $5k, I don’t think it was a scam, just enterprising “Mallory”, according to Mr. Number, trying a new angle for shopping her OTTB around. But you never know. I’ve had my share of the Nigerian email scams and fortunately they are pretty easy to spot as they all sound about the same.
I’m apparently on the text spam list for some seemingly legit sales agent. Nice looking horses, not cheap, ungodly annoying.
Jennifer
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