The FBI is seeing so much activity around malicious Google Voice activity, where victims are associated with fraudulent virtual phone numbers. Scammers often use the Google Voice number in fraudulent ads on marketplace websites or for other criminal activity. As of September, the Identity Theft Resource Center reported that the scam is booming 49 percent of the complaints they received in the prior month were about the scam. In at least one case, the scammers disguised the message by having it sent in a foreign language by sending it in a Filipino.”]
Source: https://threatpost.com/google-voice-authentication-scam/177421/