Does the online service Reverse Phone Detective Work?

Is it possible for someone from another state, to have a NJ phone number, and to be texting me?

• So their's this girl that I know who lives states over from me, who's never even been to New Jersey. But now i'm getting text messages from someone with a NJ phone number, who texts awfully just like her by using certain words that only she would usually use. So, I tried calling the number. But every time I call it, I just get an automated response saying "You have reached the textme number. If you wanna use this service for your ipod or iphone or android smartphone, please go to textme.us." She would never call me, but always text me. Then at times, she would email me, with a Gmail account. Reason why i'm asking, This girl is basically like the girl from the movie Catfish, she likes to impersonate other girls because she's like, she's psychotically in love with me and I stopped talking to her months ago, but she always finds other ways to get in contact with me and tries to act like different girls. So, i'm tryin to do some detective work here. My guess is, is that she's using some type of texting service (my guess is google voice, possibly), to message me. I tried making a google voice account and seeing how it works and everythin to make sure for myself, but i'm not very good at working that plus I don't have the time really to figure that out right now. I tried using textme.us to send myself a text message, but I get "Error: Unknown recipient or recipient blocking messages from the web." I have a really old blackberry phone that doesn't have a web browser, I think it's called the 8700 series or somethin. So, how is this person text messaging me? Is this a legit person? Or can it be someone else from a different state?

• Answer:

  Most of those VOIP forwarding call services, google voice/EvaPhone services alike, offer you the option of choosing your new phone number. A list of numbers will show up and you have to pick one from the list. Generally numbers are generated according to some of the data you provide such as the city you live or even a phrase/motto you like. Funny, hm? But here's the thing that could answer the most crucial thing about your question: when using those type of services, it's very simple to say you live in a different state and pick a number from that area. Most of them never bother checking if you actually provided a real physical address. You may say, this is irresponsible... yeah, it can be. But they are not so dumb since they can track your moves through your other phone number, because signing up for GV requires an existing phone line, so they can forward you a code that will unlock your new GV number. In case someone is using their service for questionable purposes, they can track the person using info based on the number they provided when trying to unlocking the service. There's two things you can do: block the number and forget about the txting, or call the police and say someone is harassing you and prank calling. I don't think they will open an investigation, after all is just a loser trying to get your attention, but if you thing it's serious I bet they will have some good advice to give you... in end, this is probably something old to them. So it could be a legit person... but by the info you gave (the textme automated response) I'd bet on someone from a different state or even someone in your state but using a fake number.