Weird Facebook thingy

onlyroz

Bit of a strange one. Have been getting some odd chat messages from my cousin's husband today through Facebook. I've never actually met the guy, but suddenly he's telling me that he's naked, and wants to get together (bearing in mind that they live at the other end of the country). So I'm thinking that either he's nuts or his account has been hacked. Which is the most likely here? So far I've ignored him but am unsure of the correct approach.

GeeBee38

I would contact your cousin and say ' i'm getting some very strange messages from your husbands fb'
So that way, you haven't answered any messages, so won't get pulled into any arguments, (if he is trying it on)
And if he is, she can catch him out
If it is him, he is acting very inappropriate and god know who else he is sending them to, if he can do that to his own wifes family

DylanO

Sounds like a vicious psycho has got into their account and is trying to cause trouble.

It happened to a friend of mine - her ex-boyfriend somehow managed to get into her account and would go on chat and 'flirt' (though that's a gross understatement) with all available men.

He did it quite a lot before she found out and it caused her no end of trouble. It was only when he started it with a gay guy who told her, that she realised what had been happening. Her reputation was quite seriously damaged because no one would confront her about it, and when she made no reference to it, people just judged her.

My advice is to immediately phone him up and tell him what's going on - if it is him then you'll soon now, but if it's not (and it's probably not) then he needs to know ASAP.

BitterAndTwisted

Eh, I'd just forward all the messages to your cousin and let her sort it out. That you've never met this chap is a pretty good indication that his account has been hacked. Or ignore the messages because they're being sent by a loony, either cousin's bloke or hacker and forget about the whole thing.

Mk14:37

It doesn't have to be all evil and lunatic, it could equally be said chap's friends with a slightly warped sense of humour - they've found their friend's FB logged in, posted some "I'm secretly gay" message on the status update and then messaged a random female from the friends list.

Not *actually* funny, but it's the kind of thing some people do "for a laugh".

Agree that the way forward is to tell your cousin straight away though. Get it off your mind.

Savvy_Sue

Do they have children of an age to think this funny?

faerie~spangles

Block him.

If cousin asks why, tell her you were getting strange messages from his account.

It is possible he's been fraped.

onlyroz

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Do they have children of an age to think this funny?

They've only been married for a year and are still in their 20s.

My first thought was that he was messaging me by mistake but I checked his friends list and there's nobody with a similar name. But I can't think of a single genuine reason why he would want to contact me in this manner.

I think I'm going to see if it happens again - or if I get a message today saying "sorry but some weirdo was posting as me yesterday". I don't really know either of them well enough to start phoning up and making accusations. I see my cousin every year or so and it's only since I added her to Facebook that I have corresponded in any real way with her. As for her husband, I don't know him at all.

Sambucus_Nigra

Block him then. If it's him he will know why. If it's not then he won't notice. If he does notice in the months to come just say you have gone through your account and removed people you don't actually know.

Mupette

ok i am too old for this,

what is Frap or frapped, i see it a lot and haven't the nerve to ask DS 17

duchy

If he's in his twenties he probably has some immature mates....or could have left his phone somewhere and an idiot got hold of it.

I'd drop your cousin a private message on FB saying I think someone has got into X's FB account as I've got some messages that obviously aren't from him. It's not a big thing -accounts get hacked or messed with-the nice thing to do is to let the account holder know so they can sort it before it offends someone who might take it really badly and do damage. I've let people know before-and just got a thank you message back.