I received the exact same text.  Got into a conversation with him by text.  Since I am a home improvement contractor I thought it was legitimate.  He wants to pay me $6,000 by credit card up front and wants me to send $4,000 of it to an attorney.  (Sounds like the old, "I'll give you $X and you send another person $Y trick", and it turns out that the original $X check eventually bounces.  If you do ANY type of advertising you'll always get a few pranks or scammers.  I actually talked to him, via text, for about 30 minutes.  He never really answered any specific questions I had about the bathroom remodel. Most of his questions / concerns were about the payment method.  I told him I didn't accept credit cards but we could set him up a Paypal account to pay me.  That got him confused.  He was all too ready to credit card me the $6,000 and get me to send the attorney $4,000 of it right away.  The attorney was supposedly representing the seller of the house that I was to be doing the work on.  He did provide me with a legitimate address of a home that recently sold in my area. (Information that's readily available to anyone via Zillow.com.)