I have never heard that before but I will offer an observation. In Jonah 3:4-5 we read the following:
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And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day's walk. Then he cried out and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
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Notice however that when Jonah speaks they 'believe God' which a natural reading of the text would understand as a response to Jonah's message. Furthermore we see no indication that Jonah receives the rebuke or 'reward' of a false prophet as indicated in other passages of scripture.
In other words I don't think anyone can repent and believe without the true message, however surly the vessel who brings it!