Sources say that fraudsters are impersonating the captain and pretending that he’s become a recruiter for cruise giant Princess. They’ve even mocked up his passport — featuring a promo shot lifted from the Bravo show as his ID photo — to send to marks to “confirm” that he was who he claimed to be.

The scammers have been advertising dozens of nonexistent jobs on Facebook, along with a purported pitch from Captain Lee, and asking hopefuls to send an application fee of 15,000 Indian rupees, equal to about $200 in US currency.

The message attributed to Captain Lee reads in part, “I want you to know I am a God fearing man and we treat out workers like our own family and also increase there [sic] salary after one month of work.” It promises a $7,000-a-month salary. Sources say that his team only learned about it because some of the applicants e-mailed his real Web site to ask if the situation was legit.

Princess Cruises didn’t get back to us.