The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has been called in to probe the cloning of the Prime Minister’s social media accounts.

Yesterday, Andrew Holness alerted users on his social media platforms that he has become aware of fake accounts, and advised persons not to respond to the pretenders.

A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister today (May 4), says social media specialists have detected a number of fake Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, created to scam persons using the Prime Minister’s name and image.

The fake pages have used photographs from the prime minister’s official pages to give the impression that it is the prime minister’s real page.

The matter has been reported to the police as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Press secretary at the office of the Prime Minister Naomi Francis says this is a very serious matter.

She says the OPM has called in the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to catch those behind the fake accounts.

The team is working with the authorities to identify all fake accounts on social media.

OPM is urging persons to be careful. It adds that no page associated with the Prime Minister on social media solicits money.

Ms. Francis says the Prime Minister has only one official account on Facebook, one on Instagram and one on Twitter, all of which have been in operation for several years.

Meantime, it’s not clear if similar action has been taken for the social media accounts of Culture Minister Olivia Grange.

Yesterday, Ms. Grange posted that her Instagram page had been cloned.

She urged followers to note that the fake page has a hyphen in the account’s name. Her official account does not.