Tuesday, April 5, 2011

I cant believe that you can see who is viewing your profile! - OpenMouthed

You may start seeing a scam referred to as OpenMouthed spreading virally throughout your friends.

If your friends fall for the scam their Facebook account will begin to post news feed messages
With one of these two messages:
LOL !! Me cant believe that you can see who is viewing your profile! I can see the TOP 10 people and I am really OPENMOUTHED that my EX is still checking me every hour. You can also see WH0 CHECKS YOUR PR0FILE here-> [LINK]
or
I cant believe that you can see who is viewing your profile! I can see the TOP 10 people and I am really OPENMOUTHED that my EX is still checking me every hour.You can also see WH0 CHECKS YOUR PR0FILE here @ [LINK] 
Screenshot courtesy of Sophos

Since this is a viral APP it could potentially start posting different messages when the hacker/developer updates it. 

Note: another way to tell if a message is from this app is by the name. What I mean is under the post it will say "8 minutes ago via Profile Scannerz" in grey below the message.

The app name can change however so if you see the above message or similar, it's probably not safe.

Also no app can check who looks at your profile, it's not possible, that app would have to have planted code on your facebook profile outside of an apps wall. No app has the ability to do that, only Facebook can do that.

Whatever you do do not click the link in the message when you see it posted, likely the link will be a shortened URL from bit.ly, This link will try to give the app permission to post to your wall, and view some of your information. 
Screenshot courtesy of Sophos

If by chance you've clicked the link, gave the app permissions(probably thinking that it will give you the ability to see who looks at your profile). The app will take you to a group of surveys, but it doesn't outright say they're surveys, they say they're tests to make sure you are who you say you are. Surveys are how the hacker/dev makes money off of this scam. 


If you fell for the scam you can stop the app from posting on your behalf and erase messages it posted. 
Here's how:

Video Courtesy of Sophos


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