Comments on: Who’s checking your Facebook profile? Scammers.

By: Rick Ranum

Rick Ranum — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:50:34 +0000

How do you get rid of all these photos now part of my page?

By: Myck

Myck — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:49:47 +0000

I rarely use any apps on Facebook but somehow managed to get caught up in this. It even puts your photo in the collage, similar to above and then emails people you’re friends with.
Only found out when out of nowhere, I started getting odd comments and messages from people that the app had mailed. Dont know how many people it mailed or what it said but Im sure someone would have said something if it was bad. It cemented one thing in my mind, Im done with facebook. I tried to contact them about this (‘report this’ is a joke), eventually you get directed to a form that goes to? –No Idea
and is this answered? –Never
Absolutely sick of it now, have removed all info possible and changed anything remaining (name, address etc). It wouldnt allow me to remove all or close the account, so I just did it gradually.
I know theres no way of completey wiping all data but Im not going to make it easy for them either.
F***FB

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By: Seeker

Seeker — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:54:20 +0000

Okay, I got this email from a close friend of mine which said “SEE WHO’S VIEWING YOUR PROFILE NOW!..” and all that. I clicked on it (how stupid?) and it brought me to a facebook page which said become a fan. Which I did. Then it said paste the following code into a web browser (how goddamned stupid??).Notihng seemed to happen. Atleast I couldnt figure out anything.
Anyone out there knows something about this? Should I be worried??

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By: Matt Murphy

Matt Murphy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:27:30 +0000

I first became aware of this app about 10 days ago when I was invited by both my wife and my sister in law. I noticed that it was automatically posting on my facebook wall with comments that I never made. Nothing untoward, just general crap like “Matt Murphy likes this, it work’s!”

I also noticed that it was making a very generic montage of friends, seven of which I knew hadn’t been on facebook for weeks and one that I’d only just sent a friend request to ( and had’t replied yet) so I thought something was a bit sus.

Getting rid of it? easy but frustrating, as the app keeps making new posts while you are deleting the last but this is how I got rid of it.

1- delete the app from applications page (do this prior to deleting posts or it just adds more posts)

2- go to your profile and delete all references to the app

3- go to your photos and delete all montages and the albums it creates.

4- Warn everyone in your friends list and ask them to warn everyone they know.

5 Do a search for the person who originated the app (go to the home page you got it from and go to its wall, the developer will be listed. Then annoy the crap out of them, let your friends know about the developer, get them to do the same, then report them.

Hope this helps, but to ensure that an app is genuine, and actually sent from one of your friends, IM them or send an email for them to confirm. or just dont use apps>