It is a cyber scam. This happened to me and was sent to all my contacts in my regular email (then my entire contact list was deleted!) I think it was done via FaceBook as I could no longer sign in as the message said, email and sign on changed. I did not do this. I never really did get my FB back and had to start another FB site. I was told to change my sign on and password frequently and not to use obvious things like home town, birthdates, anything that could be found by googling/ancestry.com etc. Good luck. What a pain these folks are causing. Everyone thought I was in the UK. That is where the $ was supposed to be sent.