Who Deleted Me On Facebook Scam: How It Works
Wouldn’t it be nice to get notifications anytime someone deletes you from their list of friends on Facebook, or when they stop following your business page? Well, now that’s possible. Or that’s what thousands of users believed these days and fell for this newest scam. It is the same format as the ones hitting Facebook last year promising to allow you to change your timeline color, or the one guaranteeing you to see who looks at your Facebook profile. How does the scam work?
Watch the video below to see the Who Looked At Your Profile Scam exposed:
You may see it on your newsfeed as a recommendation coming from one of your friends. It looks like a brand new application that lets you see who deleted you from their list of friends. Your buddy suggests clicking on a link to install it and take advantage of its benefits.
The promotional text of the app might be similar to this: “This app regularly checks your friends to see if anyone has removed you. When it detects that someone has removed or blocked you, a message will pop up informing you who that was and a link to their profile. Click here (compromised link)”.
If you do click on the link, you are taken to a page that requests your permission to access private information. When you do so, the message immediately re-posts itself on all your friends’ walls, and you are prompted to fill out a questionnaire, for which scammers receive affiliate marketing money. Needless to say, you won’t see who deleted or unfollowed you whatsoever.
This rogue app is a fake platform to lure more people to installing it and clicking through to survey pages.
Who Unfollowed Me On Facebook Scam: How To Avoid
Facebook does not have a feature that shows who deleted you as a friend or unfollowed your page – at least not yet. Don’t open any links promising you that. Also, look for any grammar mistakes. In the image above you can see how “pop-up” is misspelled as “popup” and “their profile” is misspelled as “there profile”.
Who Deleted Me On Facebook Scam: How It Works
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