There’s a hoax claim going round that people’s accounts have been cloned on Facebook that a large number of users have fallen for. The hoax messages tells people that their account has been cloned and they should forward the message to other people in their friends lists. The message says: ‘Hi….I actually got another friend request from you yesterday…which I ignored so you may want to check your account. Hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears…then hit forward and all the people you want to forward too….I had to do the people individually. Good Luck!’
There is no virus on the message, but it is irritating many people as others fall for it and put the false information onto their newsfeeds. A Facebook official said: ‘We’ve heard that some people are seeing posts or messages about accounts being cloned on Facebook. It takes the form of a “chain mail” type of notice. ‘We haven’t seen an increase in incoming reports of impersonation (cloned accounts). ‘The volume of these types of posts isn’t a good measure for how often impersonation is actually happening.’ The advice is to ignore and delete it.