Facebook Cloning
is a social engineering technique where scammers use your publicity available FB Information to create a fake copy of your profile
Modus Operandi
- Report you to shut down your real account
- Ask for money
- Compromise your reputation
- User bait-and-switch techniques
- Send malicious links to your friends
How To Secure Your Account
- Customize your Facebook Privacy Settings
- Accept friend request only from people you personally know
- Hide your friend list from the public
- Always do privacy check-up
What to do if your account has been cloned
Immediately report the said cloned account!
For questions, kindly contact ISSD, ITMS
723-0401 local 4225
or
issd.itms@pnp.gov.ph