Residents report texting scamTAHOKA – A text scam threatening to kill the recipient unless payment is made has been reported by a Tahoka resident, and local police say that this type of scame was also reported in the Lubbock area not long ago.“A local resident received a phone call on his cell phone that he did not answer, and shortly afterwards he received a text message saying that someone had paid him to kill him, but he knew he was innocent so he was going to let him pay him off instead of killing him,” Police Chief Jeff Parker told ...