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Facebook account cloning is a simple scam – but it’s easy to be fooled by it. A scammer will make a copy of your real account, using your Facebook profile photo and other public information, to trick ...

Oh, so you found a duplicate Facebook account that shows your profile, but it’s not you who created it? Watch out! It could be a cloned Facebook account and your friends could be just one step away ...