Google sends you a confirmation text. Enter the code to complete the verification. A number can only support one Google Voice account at a time, but you can forward calls.

7News On Your Side’s Lindsey Mastis recently talked with an expert at the Federal Trade Commission about the Google Voice scam.

They then ask you to send them that code. Once they get it, they can use it to create a Google Voice Number connected to your phone, which helps them conceal their own identity.

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the ...

A report states that a recent Google Messages beta has brought about the company's QR code-based verification keys on Android ...