Keeps happening to my family members as well. For all of them their initial response is to tell all their contacts that they have been hacked, their anti-virus

Keeps happening to my family members as well. For all of them their initial response is to tell all their contacts that they have been hacked, their anti-virus has failed and they have changed all their passwords on all sites... I keep telling them they have not been hacked, it is just Meta/Facebook being inexcusable poor at detecting obvious new cloned accounts. Some just panicked and closed their accounts making the fake one the only one with their name left on FB... I can't imagine any of them wanting to pay to be verified to avoid this though.