Three social media accounts purporting to be Andy Preston were used to dupe women in North Africa.
A mayor had his identity cloned in a Facebook fraud that scammed women in North Africa out of hundreds of pounds.
One victim, a 40-year-old from Algeria, said she had lost €500 after communicating with an account purporting to be Mr Preston."Sadly, scamming is a really common global problem on social media and I suspect hundreds of people's profiles are being abused in this way," he toldAt least two Facebook pages and a WhatsApp account featuring Mr Preston's name and pictures of him have been used.
In the Facebook message sent from the suspect account, the scammer claimed they lived in Middlesbrough and were the chief executive of a charity - although they also claimed to be the mayor of Nottingham. She said the fraudster told her she was "a special person" and he was "interested in getting to know me and Islam".
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