Someone has "cloned" Salleh Marican's Facebook account, and is trying to scam money out of his friends.

On the morning of April 19, the CEO of Second Chance Properties Ltd noticed that his Facebook account had been cloned by an unknown person.

The account belonging to the 2017 Presidential Election hopeful is verified with the Facebook blue tick, but the impostor does not have it.

You can see it below, if you search for "Salleh Marican" on Facebook:

According to a family member, this clone had been sending out friend requests to people on Salleh's own friend list.

That prompted Salleh to post a warning on Facebook about the clone:

Scam

However, the clone sent his targets a message while pretending to be Salleh.

He spun a tale of a "Facebook bonus" prize:

"How are you doing? I lost password so I made this one.

My life has really changed with the FB bonus, guess what? The FB bonus, I thought you already heard about it. Becos it bonus was made to some FB users in other to benefit from them, its a randomly picked of profile on FB and get $90,000. Did you get yours from them?"

They were then instructed to contact an agent named Judy at the email address [email protected].

After that, they received an email instructing them to send $600 to someone called "Smith Jones" in the Philippines.

Reported

Salleh learned of the scam when one of his friends visited his office, and asked him about it.

At about 7.00 pm on April 19, he posted on Facebook that he had lodged a police report, and advised anyone who had been scammed to contact the police too.

At least one person recognised the scam for what it was and played along, only to be blocked by the scammer:

 

PSA from Salleh's family member: Please do not fall for the scam.

Anyway, it's best to be more careful when you interact with someone online if he's asking you for money.

Top image via screen shot from Facebook.