Some people would love to know... who is hanging around on their own Facebook profile? But they don’t exist – the so-called “profile viewers”.
And yet, users keep receiving “offers” in this regard and curiosity often wins out.
These are the following status posts that appear in the news feed:
Well, that's funny. I thought I'd never find out! Well, now I know! Greetings go out to my ex! Look for yourself:
We know – give me the list!
More than 2421 people use this app.
But it can also look like this:
showme.xyz
You have had (31) visitors to your profile in the last 2 days.
To view the list, click on the button. We do not post anything on your behalf.
To my stalker list
In any case, you are being lured here – into a trap !
The fact check
Various variations of this “stalking list” have been circulating on Facebook for years, but the description is always similar.
However, if you follow the link, you will find yourself in a multi-stage process that deliberately deceives the user in order to ultimately gain access to your own profile with the help of an app that you activate unnoticed.
Goal: Access the public profile
At this point we would like to point out again: Such profile viewers do NOT work!
No app can read this data... the user simply grants the app the right to the “public profile” and thus third-party access to it .
So it's basically a "back door" to the user profile - good for the fraudsters, bad for the user.
If you click on the button, the operator of the app will now have access to all the information that the user has set to “public” in their Facebook profile.
This can affect the public profile, the friends list, the email address, chronicle posts, photos and also the friends list.
Result:
Yes, it may be that certain tests and analysis games require various data from the user so that the user can be shown a result in the tests. BUT should you really be so FREE with DATA?
With just a single click, the user has transmitted a lot of DATA to the OPERATOR. So STAY AWAY from such dubious status posts!
In addition, a pretext is used to lure people here. There is NO profile viewer or a “stalker list” for Facebook visitors.
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