Some of you might have seen posts in your friend’s Facebook Feed excitingly announcing an application that allows you to see who has been visiting your Facebook page — the message probably looks something like this:

Some of you might have been “brave” enough to click on the link. We don’t blame you, an opportunity to see who is visiting your Facebook page is hard to overlook. Well, the natural sequence of events after you click the link (app called Profile Watcher V2.1) looks something like this: 

Upon clicking the link you will be catapulted to a webpage, which will encourage you to grant permission to the application to access your Facebook information.  If you proceed any further then your “goose is cooked, Buddy!”  You have just granted a scammer complete access to your personal data, Facebook mail, and wall posts. And the worst part is you won’t even get to see who is visiting your Facebook page. In other words all your efforts and losses will be for nothing.

According to Sophos, an Internet security firm, almost 60,000 Facebook users have fallen victim to this shady scam in recent days. 

 
It is interesting to note that this scam in not exploiting errors in the Facebook code, instead it’s relying solely on poor decision making of Facebook users; who are being used as host to spread the scam virally across the forum. Facebook currently does not have the functionality that allows you to find out who is visiting your profile. The company does not even embrace third party applications that claim the same.  In fact Facebook is downright against such applications, and requests uses to “report” any links that claim to provide such functionality immediately to the moderator.  

 Warning against such application in Facebook FAQ

In short,  if you get a message which claims to give you the capability to monitor who is visiting your Facebook page etc then please don’t click it, or else…