Thursday, November 14, 2013

Who Saw Your Profile - Watch Out For These Facebook Scams

"Who Saw Your Profile" is one of the Facebook scams highlighted by the magazine Digital Trends.



If you ever see something advertising this ability, it is a scam. Like the Change Your Color app, the motivation for illicit users to create these apps is for the affiliate dollars and your personal information.

There are variants to this popular Facebook app scam, which Bitdefender provided us examples of below:

Who saw your profile

Example: WoW!! I Cannot believe that you can now see who has been stalking your profile for real! You can easily check who is spying on you at http://apps.facebook.com/fggtrtbr/


Timeline viewers

Example: Awesome! The Patent has been Approved! Beta is out for this application!!I can see who viewed my TimeLine this past few days.


This app would then republish the following excerpt and link to your Timeline to lure your Facebook friends:

Now I know who are my real Timeline Viewers! :P Thanks for developing this application! Check yours here! https://apps.facebook.com/timeline-voyage/


Profile view

Example: My total profile views today: Male Viewers: 43 Female Viewers: 29 See your total views and who is viewing you here: http://apps.facebook.com/gdrydrete/


Source. Via Digital Trends.

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