After receiving faked messages through Facebook that were asking for help from who she thought was a friend on Wednesday, a Missouri woman was scammed into wiring around $4,000 to someone in England.

Jayne Scherrman believed she was sending the money in order to assist a friend and her husband who had supposedly been detained in London.

Police believe that someone had taken over the Facebook account of Scherrman’s friend Grace Parry and then changed the password and sent out the messages.

Parry and her husband who is a minister often go on mission trips so it didn’t seem suspicious to Scherrman that they were in England. Scherrman had thought that the Parrys were in utter need of the money since they could only reach her electronically.

When Scherrman was reached by a caller after the couple had been “detained,” she asked to speak to Parry but was told she was unavailable. After Scherrman tried to get a name and address from the caller, she realized that it might have been a scam.

Scherrman had already wired almost $4,000 and Parry told authorities that a friend from Mississippi had also wired $600.