Message from woman

[Whatapickle07]

Let's be honest here, it's never a good sign when you receive a Facebook message from another woman saying, I have something to tell you. I mean we all know where that's going to lead?

Just now waiting to hear back about what this information is.

Hope this turns out ok for you

Yeah another vote for scam too.

Had pretty much exactly this message from the most random contact the other day (someone I'd bought a table off on facebook marketplace last year).
She's a really elderly lady so I responded a bit for a while wondering if she'd confused me with someone she knew.

Then she started telling me someone was sick terminal cancer, we are contributing to a fundraiser here please contribute... it was like ohhh you've been hacked and just blocked.

She could be trying to sell some MLM crap or recruit you. They go through all the different levels of people they know and in the end scrape the barrel with anyone they've ever seen/met/heard of.

That would also explain the 'xx's

I feel your dread. Praying its not the outcome you are thinking. X

I feel for you OP. I can literally feel it in the pit of my stomach in just hoping and praying it's all completely innocent for you x

I hope all turns out well and you can laugh about it later!

It's probably a hacked account. Have you checked her Facebook page since you got the message. Most people I know are pretty quick at warning friends they've been hacked

It would make me suspicious and I'd have to reply, hopefully it is a scam.

Might it be about an old mutual friend who has died? If this is an old school friend?

I had a loosely know school friend from one of the years below me. it was a scam. it started out all friendly and then said she thinks ive won the peoples postcode lottery. If you dont hear anything back from this woman, it might have been a scamed or hacked accounts. if you do hear anything back, dont click on any links or anything like that as its a scammer.

Just watch any links are genuine

i hope you get a response and a bit of peace soon.

There’s a certain type of woman who will put xxxs on everything. U ok hun xxx etc

scammer bot. Just ignore

Is this one of those fake posts where everything is done real time then it just goes puff when people have sussed it out?

Just saying?!

Hopefully it’s a scan message op! I received one from my aunt before saying she hopes I was well and that she had something to tell me. I replied and heard nothing. The next day she messaged again saying she had some news. She’d been hacked but the stupid hacker wasn’t even sending links.
Hopefully it comes to nothing but you could message again and just ask if everything is okay since this message is out of the blue.

Hope you get answers soon op!

Sending hugs OP. It does sound like a scam fingers crossed it is xx

If this is genuine, I would never send a message like 'I have something to tell you' unless I wanted the recipient to stew in the meantime like you are doing.

It is not a kind thing to do. I would just say oh, how are you, do you have time for a chat? Not I have something to tell you. That is almost malicious and at best unthinking. The x also makes me think flakey.

If you are not prepared to block, is there some way you can contact her immediately outside of Facebook to say you received a message from her and is it genuine. If so, spit it out!

It may well be a scam.
My contacts all received a message from ‘me’ giving them details of a horrific car accident. It was very nasty and I was mortified.
Definitely change your password in case you’ve been hacked OP.
Good luck x

pretty sure their account has been hacked.

very sad that you dont trust your partner though @Whatapickle07

When accounts have been hacked, they message people on the friends list - doesn't sound as though the woman and the OP are connected.

Has she still not replied @Whatapickle07 ?

Hopefully that's a good sign. If she genuinely had something to say she would just say it.