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Scammers are attempting to tap into users' concerns about social network privacy with a tool that supposedly allows surfers to monitor who's stalking them on Facebook.

The rogue applications supposedly offer information about who has viewed one's Facebook profile, and how many times it has been viewed. In reality the app, supplied by scripts that marks are invited to run from a website unconnected with Facebook, generates spam messages promoting the tool that are sent to victims' contacts on Facebook.

The message appear as either wall messages or direct messages, something of an innovation for this type of scam. The JavaScript-based applications rejoice in names such as "profile view" and "creepers".

Users fooled into using the tool are, of course, left no wiser as to who might be taking a keen interest on their activities on Facebook.

A full write-up of the scam, complete with screenshots, can be found in a blog post by Trend Micro here. ®

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Re:First Rule of Facebook

Never sign up to facebook?

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First Rule of Facebook

First rule of Facebook

1) Never, never, never, never install any "app". Mainly because they are all crap but also because they are full of security holes and you've got no way of protecting yourself.

Also by not installing stupid Farm-ville-pillow-fight-stalker-shite you can go and do something more productive with the time.

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New?

Things like this have been doing the rounds for years. Only idiots install Facebook apps as they can be full of crap. Also, Facebook will never let you track down 'stalkers' , as half the male users would have no use for it if they did that.

(Not that I've ever looked for bikini shots of my female friends or friends of friends. Don't judge me by your standards !)

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