How Do I Tackle This?

Ignore it like it never happened Do NOT respond
If it is genuine I am sure your hair dresser will bring it up on your next appointment .Then you can say yay or nay.

99 times out a hundred these messages are scams, but the other could be genuine. A couple of years back I had a message from a cousin I hadn't seen for years asking if I could lend her £50,000 as she had borrowed money to start a business, circumstances had changed and she needed the money urgently. It turned out to be genuine! I didn't have that sort of money lying around, but I knew this person had spent her whole life on failed ventures and I was not going to get involved. I haven't heard from her since so I don't know the outcome. All I can be sure of is that I would never have seen that money again.

I think you should contact her and tell her that you think her telephone was hacked because ......
It's a shame if you are new to an area to be avoiding people and losing a hairdresser that you are satisfied with. Its also very sad for the hairdresser that she has acquired a reputation just because someone has hacked her telephone. Lastly if you don't speak up, she is unable to warn her contacts that her phone has been hacked and they may lose money because of it.

Sounds like someone hacked her account. I would phone her to check, if she is innocent and knows nothing about that message fine carry on using her, but if it was her stay away

First of all I was wondering why she would have contacted you on Facebook to change an appointment when she would have taken your phone number at your first appointment. I assume that whoever hacked her account has used all of the contacts of hers to send out the same message.
I would actually contact the local police and I hope that your hairdresser has also.
Quite honestly Facebook do little if anything when your account is hacked - the onus is very much on the person that has been hacked to prove what has happened.
Most police forces have a dept for cyber crime these days and they may well have been looking for more details in some cases. Dial 101 if in the UK.

Message her back and tell her she’s been hacked.

Why don't people read the thread before posting?

It seems like I hear about a new scam every week. Please be very careful of your money this Xmas.

I think a few people haven’t seen the OP’s update yet?
Glad it was sorted.?

I think this might have been a scam and she may not even be aware that the message was sent. If I was you I would contact her and say you had a strange message and was it actually from her, if she says it was from her, just say you weren't in a position to lend her the money but hope she is OK.

albertina

Stay safe and get a new hairdresser.

That's not very fair.

The scammers are very clever and always one step ahead, it is up to us to be aware.

I would def tell her, poor girl , I couldn’t keep quiet

I would definitely mention it to her asap

Sounds like a scam to me!
I doubt she knows anything about it.

Oh pleased it's sorted, but still be aware anyone can say they were hacked !!
There's so many at the moment emails etc too
I've had bank asking if I spent x amount answer y if I did n if I did not ..wasn't the bank of course ,..
Royal. Mail asking me to pay for a parcel re delivery wasn't them! Tv license another scam
It's getting ridiculous out there,..
Keep warning everyone never follow a link ! Beware of texts too ..

Stay safe and get a new hairdresser.

pollyperkins

Another one is sending a video saying you need to see this as I think you are in it. That nearly fooled me as it was a close relative and I’m sufficiently self centred and vain to be curious. But something weird about the request stopped me in time.

I got one of those - via Facebook Messenger - recently purporting to come from a friend who used to run his own security firm - anyone can get caught!!!

If it wasn't her and she knows nothing about it, surly she will get in touch to arrange or enquire about your next hair appointment or something?
If she doesn't contact you, I think she knows darn well, and you should stay well away from her...

Thanks ?

Glad it’s sorted WM.

?Woodmouse

Thanks for the update Woodmouse. Thank goodness you were on the ball enough not to just send the money and that you let her know about it.

I phoned my hairdresser this morning and explained my confusion etc. Yes, she'd been hacked and knew that lots of her contacts had been messaged, saying that she needed a loan. She had to change her FB password/s which apparently took her quite a bit of time.
Thanks to all of you for taking the time to read my message and offer your advice and insight. It helped me no end.

pollyperkins

Another one is sending a video saying you need to see this as I think you are in it. That nearly fooled me as it was a close relative and I’m sufficiently self centred and vain to be curious. But something weird about the request stopped me in time.

I had one of these messages from a very close friend and I did click on it without thinking. Luckily at that point I was directed to a funny sounding website and asked to join it in order to watch the video. That warned me and I closed the message. I was a bit worried about having opened the message but it was fine, the error would have been to have gone to the website.

You really cannot be too careful.

This asking for a loan, or especially a email asking for money because of a wallet stolen abroad has happened to us years ago, luckily we knew the person concerned would never ask for money.
So it was a definitely a scam, but it made us feel very uncomfortable.