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The First Lady, Patience Jonathan, is clearly a victim of identity theft (or impersonation) on social media. An online investigation by our correspondent on Monday showed that 16 Facebook accounts already bear her name, photograph and basic profile, though she had yet to register her presence on the social networking site.

As a result of this, many regular visitors to the fake accounts desiring to meet with Mrs. Jonathan on Facebook have been deceived into believing they are communicating with her.

Posing as Patience on Facebook, one of the unknown fraudsters involved in this scam has been using various tactics to lure unsuspecting members of the public to visit the page.

Additional checks by iPUNCH show that the fraudster has been striving on the Facebook page, which she/he opened with the name Patience Faka Ebele Jonathan on September 27, 2013, to bait unsuspecting Nigerians with promises of employment.

I will give out jobs to some youths to thank God for what He has done for me and in my husbands life, the fraudster wrote in the First Ladys name.

Unfortunately many unemployed people fell for the trick. They trooped to the page, urging the Presidents wife to fulfill her promise

Your Excellency, we thank you for your caring attitude. Please make us happy and you will find happiness. Thanks and stay alive, one Rasla Raham commented on the page.

As the fraudsters continue to fool some people on Facebook, there is a need to find out how many victims they have duped on the social networking site.

While some of the impersonators have perfected their plan for various nefarious activities online, a handful of them are still struggling to do so.

A glance at some of the fake Facebook accounts opened in Patiences name shows some discrepancies in her basic information, which is already in the public domain.

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Fraudsters create 40 Patience Jonathan Facebook, Twitter accounts