A Facebook user has been conned out of a massive $4,000 by scam artists that hacked into her friend's Facebook account.Jayne Scherrman lost her money when her friend Grace Parry had her account hacked and stolen. All of Parry's friends were spammed with urgent cries for help saying that she and her husband had been robbed in London and needed money to get back home.Scherrman was of course one of these unlucky friends, but she also received a call from a man with a British accent, who claimed to be from the British immigration authority."He said the woman and her husband were being detained and that more money was needed to fly them home," police spokesman Jason Selzer told the Press Association. "She sent three different wire transfers to London."Scherrman sent the money to help out her friend, while Parry was trying to get the word out that she had been hacked, but was locked out of her account.
News source: tcmagazine
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