Watch out for “Wh0 Viewed Y0ur Pr0file 2017” links – they’re scams
More links are spreading on Facebook that claim you can see who viewed your profile. The links claim you can get “full details” of who viewed your Facebook profile in 2017.
An example of these links can be seen below –
Wh0 Viewed Y0ur Pr0file in 2017
Naturerox.pw
Get full detail here
When clicking the link, users are taken to a Facebook app installation page which requests permission to install on the users account. If the user accepts, the app will try and post the same spammy links from that user’s Facebook account.
Once the app has installed itself, it can do all sorts of potentially nefarious things in the background. It can collect a user’s personal information, or try and lure the user off of Facebook and on to websites that may try and trick the user into installing malware onto their computer.
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At the time of writing, Facebook have begun blocking many of the links.
As we have stated many times before, you cannot see who have viewed/checked/stalked your Facebook profile. This is not a feature that Facebook provide. And if any link you see on your newsfeed is telling you otherwise, you are most likely being scammed.
We discuss these types of scams in more detail in our previous blog post here.
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