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		</div><p>A new Facebook hoax is leading users to believe their account on the social network has been cloned.<br />
The hoax comes in the form of a chain message, which suggests that the sender received a duplicate friend request from the recipient and asks users to forward it onto other friends.</p>
<p>“Hi…. I actually got another friend request from you yesterday…which I ignored so you may want to check your account,” the message reads.</p>
<p>“Hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears…then hit forward and all the people you want to forward too….<br />
“I had to do the people individually. Good Luck!”</p>
<p>Cloning is when someone copies photos and information on a person and creates a fake account in their name, usually in an effort to trick friends into revealing more information about you.</p>
<p>However, there is nothing to suggest the message currently doing the rounds is anything more than a prank, as there are no instructions or malicious links.</p>
<p>“We’ve heard some people are seeing posts or messages about accounts being cloned on Facebook,” a spokesman for the company said.</p>
<p>“It takes the form of a chain mail type of notice. People have told us they don’t like seeing the same post a lot of people are copying and pasting on to Facebook.</p>
<p>“So if enough people post the same long post, it could show up lower in people’s news feeds.<br />
“Claiming to be another person on Facebook violates our community standards, and we have a dedicated team that’s tasked with helping to detect and block these kinds of scams.</p>
<p>“We have made several recent improvements to combat impersonation, including image recognition technology, automation to detect scams, and improved reporting abilities.”</p>
<p>There is no evidence to suggest the incident is related to the recent security breach on the social network, which affected 50 million users.</p>
<p>People were logged out of their accounts after Facebook discovered the issue, after hackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code involving the View As feature, which lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else.</p>
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