Is this strange or C fuckery

[Babysharkdoodoodoodo]

So I've been in my new post for just over a month. Just come off a night shift, with another one to go before rest days. Getting ready for bed and I get a text from let's call her 'Jane'. We have several Janes at work, but only one has my number and she's just come on to day shift.

Hi it's Jane I have been trying to call you but signal bad. Im at the hospital after having a fall early morning. Can you try & text me back cos i need a favour x
Me: Hi, caught me before bed, what do you need:

Jane: Can you get me a phone voucher till tomorrow? x

Me: Sorry, off to bed now and I won't be up until 5. I wouldn't even know where to get one. Sorry.

Jane: Oh thanks. I need op and alone.

Me: Which Jane is this?

Because I have no idea who this is and why she is texting me, and why would anyone send a phone voucher, whatever that is, to someone they barely know?

Or is this some sort of scam?

It does sound odd. Does she think you're someone else?

Did she reply?

Sry strange. Do you work in the hospital she is at? She is maybe after a visitors phone voucher and thought you were on shift?

I get scammers on Facebook asking me to send phone tops etc.

Is your phone number displayed anywhere?

It's a well known scam. Don't do anything.

Here’ the scam

www.actionfraud.police.uk/alert/fake-text-messages-targeting-parents

Fraudsters are sending out distressing messages to parents in the hope that they will reply and send mobile phone top-up voucher codes.

Victims initially receive a text message from a loved-one which says they are in hospital and that the only way that they can make contact is via text message.

Scam. Block the number.

What does OP and alone mean?

Thanks. Blocking number now.

Its a scam. I got one of these on xmas day from an 'Emma'. They deliberately use a common name.

I guess it means ‘I need an operation and am alone’, Contessa

Definitely a scam, my brother got the same one at Christmas, but also adding in that there’d been a terrible accident and was awaiting surgery. Unfortunately by sheer coincidence the name they used was mine, so I received several very alarmed msgs and voicemails from family members until they got hold of me! (I was completely fine, at home in the shower).

Ahhh. That is obvious now you say it Biscuit - apologies OP (see, I was reading it as OP rather than op), was being dense!

It's a variation of the "had accident/been robbed on holiday" scam. They can clone numbers or just have a lucky guess on name.

That’s what happens when you spend too much time on mumsnet, Contessa