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'Checkout Your PROFILE Stalkers' scam spreading on Facebook

By | May 20, 2011, 5:45am PDT

Summary: Multiple users are reporting on a currently circulating “Checkout Your PROFILE Stalkers” Facebook scam.

Multiple users are reporting on a currently circulating “Checkout Your PROFILE Stalkers” Facebook scam. Spamvertised as:

OMG! Its unbeliveable now you can get to know who views your facebook profile.. i can see my top profile visitors and i am so shocked that my EX is still creeping my profile every hour

Upon clicking on the link, the users are exposed to a “copy and paste propagation technique” where they are asked to copy and paste obfuscated Javascript into their browsers, leading to the re-posting of the same message on their friends’ walls.

Users are advised not to interact with the script and report the site as malicious one.

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