I hate when someone is looking/checking my profile and I don’t even know about this!!!

But this time, you’re not alone. Likewise, Facebook also hate it, and hence they blocked the applications that offered users a unique feature to see who is viewing their profiles. Simply not because of the emotional feelings of hate, it was believed that most of the applications that offered this feature are malicious.

According to Rik Ferguson, a Senior Security Consultant at Trend Micro, he has already identified 25 different copies of the same malicious app but using different monikers such as peeppeep-pro, profile-check-online and stalk-my-profile on Facebook.

In fact, Facebook Wall has already seen a number of these malicious apps that promise users to see who has been viewing their profiles. In one such scam samples, users are being invited to try these malicious apps by offering a photo montage of their contacts. Nevertheless, none of these apps work as they claimed except profit the creators behind these apps by earning them the advertisement revenues.

While this may be good news, Facebook was quick to block these malicious apps. In a statement, Facebook said: “Don’t believe any application that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo. They can’t.”

From now on, when you checking out the similar apps that claimed to allow users to see who is viewing their profiles. Either it has been blocked, or it is an empty page.

Examples are as follows:

1) Who is checking now

http://apps.facebook.com/who-is-checking-now/

2) Who is checking my profile?

http://apps.facebook.com/yourprofile/

However, it’s ironic that the profile stalker app is still somewhere existed on Facebook, at the time of my writing. And thus, users are advised “not to” install any app that offered the aforementioned feature in order to secure their accounts from being attacks related to this scam.

Facebook no longer a place for safe and trusted environment?

Internet predators?

1. Facebook Admits Sexual Assault Suspect Used Site

Police have charged Wisconsin 18-year-old Anthony Stancl with sexual assault and accused him of copying female Facebook members’ photos, pretending to be a girl, and persuading male schoolmates to send nude photos…

2. YouTube video as embedded in below:

3. Facebook dating alert for murder suspect

Police hunting a fairground worker suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend and then…

This is a latest attempt of the attack on Facebook user; this time is not spam, but the notorious Nigerian 419 scammer on Facebook.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a Facebook user, also worked at Google Australia Karina Wells has received a Facebook message from her friend Adrian that seeking help from Lagos, Nigeria. She has been told by the message that Adrian now is being stranded there in Nigeria and looking for a help and needed her to lend him $500 for a ticket home. However, Karina Wells is a smart lady, spotted that the message from the other party, was a scammer while chatting by using the word such as “cell phone” instead of “mobile phone.” Mind you, all the people from the Commonwealth countries speak and favor the British English as opposed to American English. She then gathered all the details of where the scammer was and forwarded them to both Facebook and the relevant authorities.

Now let’s go ahead and ask ourselves: How many “friends” do you have on Facebook? Enough is enough. And do you know where are they actually right now?