Are you being stalked? Yes. By scammers. Again.

Rik Ferguson — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:58:39 +0000

One of my favourite singer songwriters once wrote “There is nothing new, only forgotten” and today is an object lesson in short term memory loss.

Once again facebook scammers are fooling users en masse into believing that they can find out who has been checking their profile pages. You may notice several of your friends posting something like the below at the moment:

Bogus message from bogus app

It’s a variation on a theme I blogged about only three months ago but it seems the attraction has not worn off. As I said back then, there is no officially sanctioned Facebook functionality that will allow you to view who has been checking your profile. Don’t click the links, don’t install the app.

If you do authorise this scamware you will be asked to grant permission for the app to post to your wall and to access your information.

Don't be tempted...

Once you grant that permission you will be put in the unenviable position of enticing your friends and family to fall for the same scam with an automated post to your wall.

In the meantime you are redirected to yet another affiliate marketing based moneyspinner for the scammers.

"Please click this link and make me some cold hard cash"

Unless of course you’re using Trend Micro, in which case you’ll see this…

Not on my watch, sonny Jim.

I have informed Facebook incident handlers of this latest ruse and doubtless it will be gone very soon.

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Are you being stalked? Yes. By scammers. Again.