Forms such as unlimited name changes , free chibi drawing , or a similar form of advertising, . are all current scams. Practically speaking, if you want all your friends to be inhibited to the point that Unfriend might not read this article.
You are using facebook, suddenly you do not understand from where many strange or strange fanpage appear on your New Feed page. So what is the cause? And solve like?
This is a very common problem today. To evaluate the popularity of an individual page, or a certain page, 'Like' and 'Follower' are used as a measure to evaluate this level. Therefore, to increase the number of Likes, increase the View, increase the Subscriber (or follower), . bad guys have used many tricks that make users turn themselves into victims to be taken advantage of. Besides the righteous individuals, there are also those "nefarious" individuals who present many tricks to users.
The tactics often used
- Recipe 1: Executes a piece of code to use a certain function
You want to change your facebook name when the number of exchanges has expired, you want to know who visits you the most, you want to appear great comment icons on facebook, or even you want to be drawn free chibi, . You Search online and find a tutorial like this.
A form of fraud hitting user psychology
First you click on the link, they ask you to copy a long piece of code (Script).
Then paste it into your web browser (by pressing the F12 button, or press Ctrl + Shift + J for Chrome, Ctrl + Shift + K for Firefox, .) to execute the function.
Just press an Enter key, you will be 'trapped' by them. The main purpose of these bad guys just to increase Like, increase Subscriber only. You will have a lot of trouble: automatically tag your friends in a series of comments (comments) with nonsense, just ads. That can not be changed anything.
Many users have been tagged in the comment.
On the New Feed also appeared many strangers, .
Currently, if you run these scripts on Chrome, Chrome will alert you to avoid being trapped. I tried Firefox and unfortunately Firefox has no warnings.
- Zhao 2: run the application
It seems that you really like this content: 'Top 5 people who regularly follow your facebook', 'Top 10 people who send you the most messages', fortune telling, . Taking advantage of this mentality, users easily 'tricked' by applications. If you're lucky, the app merely lists the statistics for you, but 'unfortunately', New Feed will be filled with strangers, strange pages, many offensive images, .
Occasionally you will come across content like this
Normally, if you want to use the application, click on the link of the application, a website will appear and ask you to follow the instructions. First, they force you to Like the page, then let you wait a bit for the statistics application. During this waiting period is when they 'dirty' your facebook.
Behind these instructions are the accompanying JavaScript snippets. If merely, the code will automatically add you to a Group, like a Fanpage or follow someone you do not know.
The application will use some of your personal information. If you find that the app uses too much information, be careful.
Worse, there are bad guys who want to use it to spread viruses, or they want to install viruses to hack your account. They use this technique to take advantage. So how do you know you have manually implemented malicious code on your computer? The answer will be at the end of the article /
Through the application, this is a form of 'taking advantage' of higher than asking you to copy the code yourself, this time the code will automatically run without your opinion, and it is not blocked. by Chrome.
You should also note, not all applications do so, some applications are only statistical or entertainment is primarily, but not for any other purpose.
- Recipe 3: Install additional plugins, add-ons, extensions for the browser
The same content, but the form has changed
This is a newer, more sophisticated tactic, overcoming the 'weakness of technique 1'. For this trick, when you click on a link, instead of asking you to copy the code into your browser, it will take you to the add-on settings page for Firefox or the Chrome Extension.
You will be asked to install the Tampermonkey utility.
You click Add, the add-on will automatically install into your browser. After that, you continue to follow the instructions, open the 2nd link. Automatically will say 'Do you want to continue executing the code to rename it?' So you click Yes.
And you are 'trapped' again.
You go to the Friend on your wall (Timeline), you see the group Follow and you will see very strange people.
- Other techniques
Occasionally, you will encounter in many comments under the status, the post, . instructions on hacking Viettel, Mobiphone . by sending scratch card codes (or a promotion message).
In fact, you will not be Like, Follow strangers, but the money to buy scratch cards will fall into the hands of fraudsters, while you have nothing.
Solution
If unfortunately you are 'involved', how do you solve the problem?
1) Based on Activity Log
All your activities will be recorded in Activity Log. Based on this, you will be surprised 'why do I like, follow so much?' Unlike Unlike each image, take turns removing tags, etc. to avoid getting in trouble later.
If you see strange pictures (or a strange link, status, .), click Unlike to cancel Like the picture.
2) Uninstall the application
If you've accidentally run a 'dirty' app, besides deleting their posts on the Timeline (or in the Activity Log) you also need to delete the apps in Settings.
You go to the Settings of facebook, select Apps. Here, the applications you have used will list, and the remaining job is to remove each 'dirty' application.
3) Unfollow strangers, fanpage
You go to the Friend on your wall, in the Following group, you proceed Unfollow each person in the People group.
For fanpage, unfortunately, you can not do directly as People group, you have to open each fanpage, then Unfollow each page. For faster operation, open a new tab by clicking the page name with the scroll wheel in the middle of the mouse. Then you unfollow each page, close each tab (instead of having to click to let the browser load to that page, then you go back and then load in the same tab).
This job will require your patience if you are stuck with too many strange Groups and Pages.
4) Check your browser add-ons again
If you accidentally installed a certain utility, quickly remove it. To prevent the utilities from automatically running 'dirty' scripts.
Uninstall the 'dirty' utility Tampermonkey
5) Delete junk, reset
Last work, to resolve all the 'ruins' of the application, utilities 'dirty' left, please clear all garbage, browser history. Then you perform a reset to restore everything to factory defaults.
For Chrome, go to your browser's Settings, select Show Advanced Settings, and press the Reset Browser Settings button.
For Firefox, click the Firefox Menu, choose Help, select Troubleshooting Information, then click Reset Firefox.
For Internet Explorer, click Internet Options, then go to the Advanced tab and click the Reset button.
Precaution
Besides knowing the cause, you also need to know some ways to prevent and avoid being caught in situations like this.
1) Install an antivirus program
You will be wondering one thing, is installing an antivirus program effective? Most antivirus programs have the ability to check links. If you find a link that contains a virus, or contains a certain danger. The antivirus will block that link and alert you if executing that application, your computer may be infected. The writer himself received the same warning thanks to the BitDefender program.
A powerful antivirus program will help you detect unsafe links.
2) Control tagging
To avoid tagging around, there's a setting on Facebook that helps you control what you've tagged (except you get tagged in comments). You access the Facebook's Settings, in the Timeline and Tagging section, turn ON at the 'Review tags people add to your own posts before the tags appear on Facebook'.
Later, every time someone tags you in (even automatically tags), facebook will ask you for advice.
3) Control Activity Log
Every activity on your Facebook is recorded in Activity Log. If you find something strange: You Like a strange Group, following people you don't know, . You must have been 'trapped'. At this time, please review before you have played any application, or have clicked the wrong link, . And quickly removed it.
These FanPage ads
4) Beware of App invitations, spam links
Once you click on a certain link, if facebook suspects this is an unsafe link. Facebook will ask you if this is a spam link?
This is also a very important sign to help you determine whether it is a trap of the bad guy. Because so many people visit this link, facebook will suspect this is spam, which means that link is not safe.
You also do not trust the invitations to play apps from friends. Most likely those are unsafe applications.
5) Be careful with the instructions
As you can see, most bad guys take advantage of user psychology to set traps. You need to be careful, do not click on strange applications, unsafe links, do not follow the instructions without any basis, .
'Turn over' tricks
The writer will help you analyze a bit of the code to 'expose' this trick. Most scripts are written in JavaScript. However, do not get discouraged because the code is so long ., you just need to pay attention to a few points as follows.
First, they ask you to click on this link. So what is the nature of this link?
After you copy and paste the code according to their instructions, the GET process. So what do they get?
They get the information and the tagging process starts.
You can see the 'mastermind' facebook at the beginning of the code.
You can easily see the facebook link of the mastermind
Scroll down a bit more, you will see the list of people ID, the page that you will Follow after you run the code.
Each ID will have 15 characters, so wherever you see there are 15 characters, that's the account ID.
If you replace this ID string with the link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=[15 characters], the browser will display the relevant accounts.
Account with ID 270969653047835
The account has ID 1000004044068515. You also notice that this account has a lot of followers.
And this is the code Follow, Add Friend, Add Comment, . (you can use the Search feature to find keywords like follow, comment).
And the last question is can you change your name? The answer is no, you have been fooled.
They only send friend requests, not change anything.
At this point, you have realized that the 'essence' of this code is to get the ID of each account of everyone in your friendlist, then tag in, give follow, auto Like, Follow, .
In addition, there is a lot of complicated code at the bottom as well. The writer only analyzes for you a few simple things so that you are not a victim of them. These scripts can also interfere with cookies and browser caches to get passwords, . and many other forms.
- How to rename facebook safely
By the way, the writer will also teach you a way to change your name if you want to be safe.
Once you have exceeded the number of times to change your name, there are 2 ways:
- You notify facebook that your account has been hacked. Facebook will reconfigure your account, allowing you to change your name and password. But this method only works 1-2 times.
There is also a way to change the name, which is to ask Facebook to confirm your true name through a scanned ID card, or any identification with your real name. This way you will be able to change your name but the name will be the same as on your ID card.
With this article, you probably know the causes, and find solutions and ways to prevent fraudulent tactics - which are 'raging' a lot on facebook. As the technology grows, the tactics become more and more sophisticated, so it requires users to be constantly alert for how scams.
Currently Facebook is gradually turning into a 'trash' with tricks, 'bullshit' apps to like, increase subscribers, . It's time we have to join hands, fight these scams to preserve a clean facebook.