Do You Know Who’s Really Viewing Your Facebook Profile?

Lots of bad things happen every day on social networks. Most attacks rely on cross-site scripting or web application vulnerabilities but I recently stumbled upon one particular attack that uses nothing more complex than social engineering to fool the unsuspecting (and perhaps even the suspecting) public. It’s a case that simply proves the old axiom: if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Here’s how things unfolded.

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