Facebook has become the best social networking site and a record number of over 500 million users say it all. But out of these 500 million most of the users are not tech savvy, they use Facebook for fun and to get connected with friends and family. Also, there are users who are not supposed to be a member of Facebook because of age restrictions, but they are a part of it. These are the two broad categories of users which are generally targeted by some intelligent “fools”. [I will be calling them IFs in rest of the article.]
The main aim of these IFs is to make profit out of a normal Facebook user and earn a few bucks or misuse their profile information. The most common ways of earnings are forgeries and spamming. Forgery includes creating fake profiles, pages, groups and applications as well.
You might have seen a number of pages, groups and applications using luring phrases and words like: Guaranteed, 100% Working, No Spamming, It’s not a Joke, Try Now, Yes, It Works..!! First X number users get it free, Share with X number of friends and get access, and many more. The sole aim of these pages is to make a fool out of the users. The latest scam on the Facebook is “see who viewed your Facebook profile”. Facebook help center mentions that neither Facebook nor any application can give you a record of your profile views. But, a common Facebook user is not aware of this and fall victim to such scams. The user does all what the application / page says but what do they get at the end? Nothing..!! Only waste of time.
When you use an application, first thing you are asked to do is to allow the app to access your personal information. By this, application pulls in your personal details, friend lists and much more. These fake applications generally ask you to follow a set of steps by clicking a few links. As soon as you click on the links you are taken to a new page and a new application. Then you are forced to grant access to this application as well. In this manner more than one application gets access to your data. Also, the app developer IFs get paid for the ads that are being displayed on their application page.
Here is a list of fake pages, groups and applications
I created this list after going through over 500 search results on Facebook for keywords: “your profile”. These all are related to the “see who viewed your Facebook profile” crap. So, please don’t waste your time by visiting these sites, apps, pages and groups.
- http://whoviews.x0x.in
- http://seewhoviewed.fileave.com
- http://whoviewsyou.letzmingle.com
- http://profileviewer.thelikeportal.com
- http://whoviewsyou.fileave.com
- http://cwhoviewedu.fileave.com
- http://profilespy.fileave.com
- http://swvyp.fileave.com
- http://whoviewsyou.weebly.com
- http://whoviewedyou.weebly.com
- http://profile-spy-facebook.co.cc
- http://profileviewer1.thelikeportal.com
- http://profilespy.co.tv
- http://profylspy.fileave.com
- http://whoviewyou.weebly.com
- http://whoviewedmyprofile.tk/
- http://profilespy.isgreat.org
- http://x70.net
- http://facebookpageviews.it.cx/
- http://prospy.fileave.com
- http://profile-spying.co.cc/
- http://profilespy.pcriot.com/
- http://diziden.com
- http://profilespy.in
One thing that you will find common in these sites is that most of them have the same design and the design is similar to Facebook. But these are not a part of Facebook.
Application:http://apps.facebook.com/checkyourprofile/ this application asks user to follow three steps to get the results. But these three steps take the user to three different application pages. The user grants access to his/her personal data to these apps. In this manner the IFs get access to your information by four different applications. They get paid by the ads being displayed and the ads user might have clicked. User is at complete loss, no results and wastage of time.
Pages and Groups:
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/-ProfileSpy-see-who-visited-your-profile/138245949527960
- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=333673643734
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/-See-Everyone-Whos-Viewing-Your-Profile-100-Works-/106569886045991
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/See-Everyone-Who-Views-Your-Profile-1st-5000-Members-Will-Get-It-Free/131340976906439
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Know-who-viewed-your-profile/123033804406851
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/SEE-WHO-VIEWED-YOUR-PROFILE/132381376790255
I think this article will prove helpful to all the new users of Facebook and current users who are not much aware of the scams and spamming that is going on Facebook.
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I wouldnt call them fake pages as such as most of them dont realyl pretend to be part of Facebook as such. But yeah gotta be careful what we dont on these sites.
I call them “fake” because they use the facebook logo and design. A common user thinks it to be a part of facebook and he/she thinks that what this page/site claims must be true. So they ultimately waste their time. They get nothing except wastage of time but the site owner earns.
Facebook should act against these Fakes. Otherwise we are one who are being fooled both by site owners as well as the Social Media Giant
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