“The weak link that is easily exploitable by scammers appears during the sign-up process, when users receive a text message ...

As explained by a "Diamond Product Expert" on the Google Voice Help forum, recent regulation around 10DLC (10-digit long code) messaging restricts the ability to send text messages from non-mobile ...

Using Google Voice to forward incoming text messages as emails to the Pi ... [AhadCove] has all of the code and detailed directions on how to set this up on his GitHub site.

Google Voice also provides a unified communications service. Using a person's existing phone number, voicemail messages are converted to text and can be read on the computer or as cellphone text ...