Facebook Scam Alert: Facebook Profile Spy – Updated Jan 3
Profile Spy Scam
We strongly advise you NOT to join this group, let alone invite any of your friends to join either. The group has been set up by a child, about 16 years old (based on his profile stats), bragging that he wants 412,000 members by January 12th, “cuz dats my birthday”. His language alone should be a red flag that this is a farce.
Farce or not, what’s worrying about this is the “activation link” that you will supposedly receive once he reaches his goal. Since Profile Spy has been set up as a group, and not an application, this kid has the ability to email everyone who has joined, and include whatever malicious content he wishes in that email.
If you receive an email to your Facebook Inbox from Profile Spy, we strongly recommend you do NOT click it.
Here is the group:
and now a second has appeared at:
Here is some further proof this program is bogus:
1. The photo he uses as his spy proof above has been clearly forged. If you look closely, you will see cut and paste lines where he has supposedly had people view his profile.
2. The kid graduates high school in 2012. This makes him about 15-16, and very unlikely the developer of this sort of application.
3. It is not even set up as an application! If it truly integrated with Facebook, it would be useless to set it up as a group. It would need to be an application for it to be fully functional.
4. There is too much controversy right now about tracking profile views. Many users feel it is an invasion of privacy, as as such, reputable developers have left this mammoth idea alone.
Here is his instructions about what you must do to join:
Profile Spy Scam Instructions
Thanks to those who brought this group to our attention, and hopefully we helped a few of you make a more educated decision about joining.
UPDATED: JANUARY 1, 2010
As you will read below, we received a few comments from the creator of this group. He demanded we remove his picture; stating we did not have permission to use his name and photo, and that we didn’t have his parents permission.
Firstly, HE CHOSE to create the group with his name and photo, on a social group, making it public property. He also created that group under the assumption it was with parental knowledge and consent. I am sure Facebook will see it the same way.
He also claims to have created the group for fun because he was “bored”, and that I should have noticed that there was an update to the group once the goal of 412,000 members was met. He says no links will be sent.
However, here is the update he posted at 2pm EST, after we made our post yesterday:
Profile Spy Scam Update
As you can see from his own update, he STILL claims “the link WILL 100% be POSTED for EVERYONE” – the complete opposite of what he claims in his comments made below.
The new goal of the group is 2,121,121 – 250,000 have joined since we posted 24 hours ago.
The group has now turned into a spam site. He is posting links to videos and products for sale – to serve his own purpose. I find it extremely ironic that he is claiming we cannot legally post his name and picture without his parents consent because he is underage, yet the link he posts for an ebook available at Clickbank.com, requires you to be at least 18 years of age to sell Hmmmm…..
This kid needs to realize you can’t have it both ways…But with 2 million people joining, there will definitely be a few to fall for his childish antics….
UPDATED: JANUARY 3, 2010
The teenage creator of the Profile Spy group is at it again! Yesterday he actually had the nerve to post that he was thinking of deleting the group, because so many of us were “too immature to understand” that it had been created only for fun. He also went on to explain that there was no Profile Spy link and that there never was one coming. Unfortunately, before I could get a screenshot of that comment, he deleted all posts in the group, and changed his name. I assumed this was going to be the end of the group…. I was wrong.
The kid changed his actual name on Facebook, to Ramdon Person – unbelievable. I assume “ramdon” was used in place of “random”. The word ‘random’ most likely was caught in Facebooks name filters….lol
Starting 8 hours ago, he began reposting details on how to join, invite everyone, and the latest group member goal. Oh yes, and he also re-posted the link to some rap video – most likely a friend. Ironically, or not, that friend ALSO has a Profile Spy group located at:
Here are the latest post screenshots (to preserve in case he changes again!)
Profile Spy NEW Instructions - Jan 3
Profile Spy Update - Jan 3
What amazes me, is that not only have over 1.1 million people joined this group, but the fact Facebook has not yet shut it down, despite numerous scam reportings to them about it…
UPDATED: JANUARY 3, 2010 #2
The original group discussed above, along with the creator, has now been banned from Facebook
However, his friends’ group still remains:
– now banned
And, another deceptive one called Profile Watcher, is gathering steam with over 600,000 members…
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i am the owner of this group and its not ment for people to get worried about it, it was made out of being bored and to see how many people join. i did not kno this many people would join. there will be NO LINKS SENT AT ALL. notice how i updated the goal after it was reached. also i want my picture and name taken off this website because i did not allow it.
also id like to say remove it because im underage and you need parents concent to post pictures of kids.
Jesus Christ kid grow a pair. There are so many other ways to find out who you are it’s not even funny. And seriously, LEARN TO F*****G SPELL!!!
oh and if you’re so concerned about your name, why’d you post it here?
Strange Patrick, that you are so concerned about your name and photo, yet you created a group under FALSE pretenses, on a social media site, using your name and photo. That makes it all public property. We do not need your permission to post it in this case.
However, since you have now removed your photo, we replaced ours with a new one as well. But, since your name and the false info you are spreading via your group remains, the details of our post will also remain.
You are falsely claiming people will be able to view the details of who visited their profile – you know you cannot provide this info to anyone. If you are worried about legalities, you may want to consider the trouble you will find yourself into.
Also, you are promoting a Clickbank product. Does Clickbank know you are underage? I somehow doubt that, because you would be then defrauding their terms and conditions of having an account there.
Amen.
Too fraud for me to even join. I mean, look how badly edited and bad quality it is.
Some of my friends have joined this and it is ver sad to say the least….Folks do not click on anything that is promising extra points for games on FB or things that promise you something for adding friends….these are just scams in the end… click carefully and do not be gullable
Do you know how to remove it from your groups? I never joined just looked at the page and it’s listed under my group like I’m a member.
If it appears on your group page, click on the group symbol, load the group page and then select Leave group from the left side menu.
I’ve devoted a group to explaining why these profile trackers don’t work. Not only is it very unlikely that the creators of these groups are capable of such applications, as the author here states, but it is also technically impossible to make a fully working tracker. Even if it were, Facebook would remove it since it goes against their policies.
There’s a new version out using the same picture.
I would recommend Mark Zuerburg sends an email notification/ new feed notification, advising people to not accept any of these sites as they may be harmful. This would be the best way to get people to realise it is baloney.
Some people have far roo much time on their hands…
and yet another new version:
Its still bouncing round – and is now oon
with a bit.ly link to a CPA site which demands you disable Adblock.
another version gid=463711590248
Another one, which tells you to post something shady in your address bar:
And yet another one – this time a girl who wants to ‘up’ her popularity and whose English language is also bad!!!!
Yup. Looks like what she is actually doing is growing a membership base using the popular “profile spy” name in order to launch a Twitter traffic ads campaign…
I visit my group page. But can’t see the group called ” Who Visited Your Profile? Get a Notification Everytime! ” to leave it. But it appears on my profile. What can I do now? I want to leave this group. Please Help Me.
Nadeeshani
From Sri Lanka
This is the Group Link:
That group link is no longer valid – the group has been deleted.
Thank You Very Much Dear.
I found another one. Here is the link: