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.

Cybercriminals and phishers are still focusing their efforts on Facebook. Several new scam tactics are listed as below.

1) Koobface Variant Resurfaced again

Recent report from CA suggested that a Koobface variant is still actively sending massive spam messages to millions of users on Facebook. During the attack, the Koobface variant connects to the malicious server UPR15MAY.com to acquire information for its spam messages to be sent to contacts of infected users.

2) Killselfz and Ligromind Malware

Similar to the “.at” and “.be” domains, this time the domains used are of the top-level domain. If you come across Facebook messages with phishing links to Killselfz[dot]com and Ligromind[dot]com, do not click on it or else the scammers will plant the malware to your computer.

3) Today, a new wave of phishing attacks on Facebook users is underway. A popular tech news blog Mashable is reportedly discovering two new top-level domains that can steal your Facebook login details and then spam your Facebook friends. If you get Facebook messages which prompt you to click the phishing links to Junfunrun[dot]com and Bulitre[dot]com, stay away from those messages and delete the messages instantly.

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…

Be wary, more scams are appeared on Facebook. The channel scammers used on Facebook might be different this time, no longer the Wall posts or messages that conned users to check out links that lead to download adware, and something about virus, but via chat.

Founder and President/CEO of SnapStream reported that in his blog, and even he published the transcript that a scammer tried to scam him, where the scammer seemed to be hacked into one of his friends’ Facebook account, and initiated a chat conversation with an attempt to beg for money. The channel for scam is different this time, but the story is the usual one, your Facebook friend is stranded in foreign land, desperately need money so that can get a ticket fly home back. While the fact scammers used chat to scam Facebook users might indicated that more and more Facebook users are actively using chat, and the user base is large enough to be a viable target for scam.

As Facebook users, perhaps what we can do is to ask questions intelligently in this type of situation, such as questions that involved information that you and the person behind the profile would know. And also, if the Facebook friends you made is really your friends you know in real life. When you received your friend’s help via chat for money, you can give the person a phone call, that’s what real friends do and clear your doubts as well. In short, sometimes the communication in the old way, i.e. phone call can actually prolong the friendship and eventually helps to stop Facebook scam.

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?