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Facebook scams When your friends are actually hackers. Scams cost Americans roughly 5. Better Business Bureau, they affect one in four homes. Watch The Imposter Online Facebook CoverThe most frequently reported scams are delivered by phone. But more than half of victims say they were contacted online through websites, e mail, social media and more. Experts say more and more people, including millennials, are becoming victims on Facebook. So what happens when a person you think is a Facebook friend turns out to be someone else For Shellie Drummond, it started when she found the Facebook profile for a friend from years back, named Deborah Boyd. I was on Messenger and my friends name came up, she told CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. Deborah Boyds Facebook profile was hacked the scam artists then targeted her friends. Watch The Imposter Online Facebook Login' title='Watch The Imposter Online Facebook Login' />CBS News. Soon Boyd was telling her about a so called government grant shed gotten through an agent on Facebook. Sure enough, the agent then told Drummond she could get financial assistance from the government. All she had to do was provide some personal information, then send 1,5. The person that I was corresponding with that I thought was my friend had vouched for this foundation, and I believed her, said Drummond. So she wired the 1,5. Florida, then waited for the delivery driver like the one shown on Facebook to deliver her 1. But they never came. And when Drummond tracked down her friend by phone, Deborah Boyd told her, It wasnt me. You got scammed. Turns out, Boyds Facebook account had been hacked by scammers who locked her out, then quickly reached out to try to con her family and friends, who she then had to warn Please do not send them anything, and delete yourself off that page. Because its not me. Theyre basically capturing that trust you have in this person and using it for their own gain, said Emma Fletcher of the Better Business Bureau. So we wondered were the scammers still active To find out, CBS This Morning set up our own fake account on Facebook, and contacted Boyds imposter. Sure enough, she claimed she got a 5. My_Balls__Dickhead_anvver_3_800x450_1059964995964.jpg?itok=gcTlQU-G' alt='Watch The Imposter Online Facebook Games' title='Watch The Imposter Online Facebook Games' />Shes not wasting any time, Fletcher said. Werner showed Fletcher the conversation that progressed. Is that typical of what you see happening Werner asked. Well, once you show an interest, you know, theyre going to go in for the kill, Fletcher replied. Watch Justine: Seduction Of Innocence Online Forbes. And it wasnt just the fake Deborah Boyd account we found what appears to be a network of fake Facebook profiles offering grants, from 5. 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So if those arent the real people, whos really running those Facebook accounts  Computer expert Gary Miliefsky set up a way to track the scammers location he built a page that looks like a money transfer companys website, but really finds a computers unique IP location. This website is an IP tracker, Miliefsky said. So when they click the link thinking theyre going to a popular money transfer site, they are allowing us to track them. We got the scammers to click on it, and lo and behold the scammers are in Lagos, Nigeria. Russians use malware, the Chinese use malware. The Nigerians, they use social engineering and they use social media, said Miliefsky. Watch The Imposter Online Facebook' title='Watch The Imposter Online Facebook' />But if we were able to track them, what about Facebook The company told us it has a dedicated team helping to detect and block these kinds of scams, and has developed several techniques to stop the abuse. But Boyd told us Facebook still hasnt solved her problem, and the scammers still have a fake profile up with her name. These people should not still be contacting my friends and family, Boyd said. No way should they be. This is, what, six months later, nine months later Come onAfter Werner reached out to Facebook, it asked us for the URLs for the scam accounts, which we provided. Within hours, it appeared Facebook had blocked those accounts. But Deborah Boyd says she has never been able to get back into her old profile, which has a lot of family photos and memories that shed like to have back. Watch the latest Featured Videos on CBSNews. View more videos on CBS News, featuring the latest indepth coverage from our news team. Imposter syndrome can make the best employees feel like a fraud heres why it should be embraced. Facebook is testing a snooze function that mutes a page for a certain period, rather than forever. This would be even more useful on Twitter, where usually lovely. Gateway to Tampa Bay area news, weather, radar, sports, traffic, and more. From WTVTTVDT FOX 13, the most powerful name in local news. By the way, the people we mentioned whose photos were used One declined to comment, but the other expressed shock when we told her. Watch I Am Jane Doe Online Ibtimes. She had no idea her photo had been taken off her own website and used by fraudsters for a scam.