Here’s a website (whois-vk(dot)tk) that seems to be aimed at users of VK (originally VKontakte) wanting to know all the ins and outs of their Facebook profile visitors.
Here’s the “Please excuse the broken English, I ran it through Google Translate” screenshot. It’ll strike anybody who has seen a typical “view your profile visitor” site as familiar either way:
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“Guests VKontakte page is no longer considered taboo secret.
Guests in contact – a service providing statistics on visits to your personal page on the social network Facebook.
Service “Guests in contact” will show you all who came to your page. You do not have to put in information about themselves and their status any links or download from the net are program application.
Stop guessing and thinking, who are you interested. Just use this service, and you can always see guests VKontakte. Visitors of my page VKontakte are no longer a mystery.”
Below that, users are asked to enter their Facebook profile ID:
The scanner checks visitors to your page Facebook
Our unique service will tell you all the guests of your Facebook page, will tell how often they visit your page, what information is viewed on your page. Visit history is stored in our database for two years.
Entering an ID bring up another form to fill in – this time, asking for a Facebook login and password, because they need to “confirm your rights” on the page ID. I don’t know about you, but I’ve already bailed, stocked up on supplies and made for the border by this point.
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Hitting the button takes users to another site altogether, vv-kstaros(dot)com/gertfertast/, where they’re presented with the below:
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The page brings up lots of whizzy bars that fill up with blue while it claims to “create databases with references to your account” and “a structure of information received”. It all sounds very complicated.
Once the bars fill up, the user will see this:
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“To get all the results collected by our crawler, you need to enter your phone number on it come SMS with an activation code.”
If you have a picture of the How About No bear handy, now is the time to use it.
It’s worth noting that the .tk site is already flagged by FireFox, so it’s entirely possible we’ll see it appear in others too:
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Always be mindful of who you’re giving your login credentials to, and why. Unless you’re 100% certain the site in question is legitimate, stick to entering your details on the official website of whatever product or service you happen to be using. If you’re really worried about who is viewing your profiles, take advantage of the various security and privacy options on offer and lock everything down until you feel comfortable.
You don’t even need to sign up via SMS for that piece of advice…
Christopher Boyd
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