Some jerk got into my fb account and told me friends I got robbed and need cash

Mother****ers!

I think I might have gotten tricked into a facebook look-alike logon screen and just thought that firefox logged me out, then entered my information. That's the only possible explanation I have for all this. Just re-scanned my PC with Microsoft Security Essentials, but my PC is clean. None of my other online accounts seem to have been compromised. Still a freaky experience.

Here's the transcript my friend sent to me after the fact:

11:10amFriend

waaaaap

11:12amFriend

how are you doing?

11:13amScammer

not good at the moment

11:13amFriend

why , what happend

11:13amScammer

am stuck in london

11:14amFriend

sorry to hear that. for how long?
when did u go to london?

11:14amScammer

gut mugged last night at a gun point
2 days

Friend

what! are you ok?

11:16amScammer

all my cash credit card was stolen away from me including mypassport

11:17amFriend

how are you getting back?
was this in london?

11:19amScammer

yeah am in a local library
am haven problem with the hotel bills

11:19amFriend

so thats why you are stuck, why 2 days? is that the time to get a passport
is there anything i can do?

11:20amScammer

all my money was stole away from me
i have nothing left with accept my
passport

11:22amFriend

thought you said your passport got stolen too
are you messing with me?

11:22amScammer

no
it was a bitter experience out there
my flight leave in few hour from now

11:24amFriend

well at least u can get back on the passport...but do you need anything, help with the hotel bill?

11:25amScammer

i need a lend from you

11:26amFriend

sure...what do you need

11:26amScammer

400

11:27amFriend

hey..send me an email with details on how you need it...money transfer? not sure how it would work...but i have to go now..will be back in an hour

11:28amScammer

ok

12:30pmFriend

so im back

12:31pmScammer

Scammer
my email Scammer@yahoo.com

12:31pmFriend

and you are still not on your plane?
i have your email

12:31pmScammer

i have only 3 hours
now

12:32pmFriend

so you need 400 bucks

Scammer

yes

12:33pmFriend

with a stapler
and some ITB reports

12:33pmScammer

my email Scammer55@yahoo.com name Scammer LastName

12:34pmFriend

huh, i know who you are

Scammer

what do you mean

12:35pmFriend

ok so how do i get you the money

12:35pmScammer

am freaked out here
you can vist www western union .com
all you need is my name

12:38pmFriend

so i go to western union and then what
do i do to get the money to you

12:38pmScammer

to receive the money i have to show them my passport
are you there
??

12:39pmFriend

ok im going to the site now
do i need your account info to wire you the money

12:38pmScammer

to receive the money i have to show them my passport
are you there
??

12:39pmFriend

ok im going to the site now
do i need your account info to wire you the money
i think it would be faster if i just go to my bank and wire it directly to you...they
could do it today

12:40pmScammer

wait

12:41pmFriend

ok

12:41pmScammer

you can wire the money to me via western union money transfer
www.westernunion.com
all you need is my name and location
where i am
ok

12:42pmFriend

whick air port in london are you at

12:43pmScammer

right now i am in a public library
ok
you can wire the money to me via online
transfer
or goto any nearest outlet nearby
alright?

12:44pmFriend

ok, so you want me to send it toyour
bank now

12:44pmScammer

no, i dont have any access to have the money via bank
no, i dont have any access to have the money via bank
because my credit card is been stolen by muggers
and i have contacted my credit card company
to deactivate any transaction
and it as been declared already
the only thing i could do is to receive the funds via western union
good thing i still have my passport with me
ok

12:46pmFriend

we are good friends, you can get your bank account info online, just log into your account, then i can wire you the
money, all you have to do is go to either gatwick airport or heathrow to your bank and show them your passport with your password to your account...it would be faster...i asked a friend at lunch and he said thats the fastest way to do something like this

12:47pmScammer

there is no gatwick bank around
right now i am in a western union outlet
just have the money wired to me
below is the location

12 St Luke's Church Hall, Havannah Street,Docklands, E14 8NA
ok

12:48pmFriend

hold on one sec...im at work and someone came in

12:48pmScammer

how long will you take to wire the money
to me
??
ok ok

12:51pmScammer

Are you there?

12:53pmScammer

Are you there?

Friend

will be back in 15 min...boss is here

12:54pmScammer

ok, i dont have much time
will you get back to me via contact email

12:54pmFriend

yeah

12:54pmScammer

once you have confirmed the transfer via western union
ok?
ok, i will be expecting your message couples of minutes
Thanks alot

Friend

hey im back, sorry about that...you know at work and all

1:00pmFriend

ok so im going to go to western union and transfer it to you...but you have to do something for me
remember that time you said you would give your buddy a bj..would u do that
and i get to watch

Scammer

no

1:04pmFriend

well how bad do u need that 400 bucks
how about streaking through the parking lot to the gymnasium...would u do that?

1:10pmFriend

dude u said u liked giving bjs...its like a win win for you..why the problem now

Scammer

what are you saying
i don't understand

1:12pmFriend

**** off you idiot

My buddy called me to let me know what's going on, then strung him around for a while and tried to get a feel for how much this guy possibly knew. At this point, I'm hoping that it's limited to the facebook password.

Anything similar happen to anyone?

whoa

wow... that crazy... glad that you did not get scammed..

Yikes.

I've heard of this scam before. It's always good to know your friends have an ounce of brain power.

Wow.

better than the nigerian prince emails

I got lucky, because I've heard of people's fb passwords getting changed so they have sole access to the account and they can keep trying to hit up different friends. Also, nothing appears to be changed.

Your friend should have told him that the money was wired, go to the Western Union to pick up, and have the cops there waiting for him. Fvkin lowlifes.

I remember back in the day when like 95-96 when I got internet it was all about staying anonymous and using screen names and keeping everything private. You never knew what kinda people were out there.

Now everyone uses their real names and pictures so that if one of your accounts is compromised they have control of your whole persona. Nothing is private anymore.

same thing happened to my friend while she was in london (weird). i was on facebook and got a chat message from her saying she needed help and money with the same spelling errors.. i caught on real quick it was a scam though.

That sucks dude. I'd have red-flagged it right there (If I had a FB account, that is) when he said something about western union.

that happened to me too, except i was the friend that was contacted
it was someone i hadnt talked to for years, and was never that close to, so i didnt really fall for it
if it was someone i knew better i might have

same exact thing happened to my friend few weeks ago, london, kidnap, mugged, need$$

Wow

i feel like i could be a really good scammer, because i can type halfway like a human being. they are so obvious!

For anyone to whom this has happened or who knows someone that it happened to: Has any other information been compromised?

i'm guessing they only thing they took is ur FB password, just find a way to reset it. Also they might have changed contact info in your FB profile, take a look at that. If you had any sensitive info in your mailbox, they could've gotten those as well

sh!tty, thankfully these idiots don't speak english as their first language and they always use westernunion lol

speaking of which, there was a radio commercial for western union and it was like "thanks to everyone using western union we were able to lower our rates to $8 for any transfer up to $200!!" I'm like, $8?! What a damn ripoff... with online banking, why haven't these stupid places gone out of business yet.

1:00pmFriend

ok so im going to go to western union and transfer it to you...but you have to do something for me
remember that time you said you would give your buddy a bj..would u do that
and i get to watch

Scammer

no

1:04pmFriend

well how bad do u need that 400 bucks
how about streaking through the parking lot to the gymnasium...would u do that?

1:10pmFriend

dude u said u liked giving bjs...its like a win win for you..why the problem now

Anything you need to tell us Busa?