There are two largest communities in the Russian segment of social networks - VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. Of course, in addition to them, you can name other services, such as "My World", but these two sites are ahead of others in terms of the number of active users.
Interest in these networks also arose for another reason. In Odnoklassniki, it is possible to view friends who have visited your page. This feature is called "Guests", and it is useful for those who are interested in those who viewed their profile.
Who viewed your VK profile?
As for another service - "VKontakte", such a function is not provided here. You can’t see who was interested in your page here. This cannot but upset active users who are interested in finding out which of their friends regularly look at your photos, statuses, and so on. Perhaps such a desire is explained by the following logic: if a person went to my profile, it means "I am interested in him." It may well be that people in this way are looking for their secret admirers or checking who they are potentially interested in.
At the same time, many services, including scammers, are now using this desire of people sitting on VK to know who visited their page. Sites like “Vkneo.ru:Guests” are constantly being developed, which supposedly help you find out who was on your profile. It is noteworthy that these can be not only online services, but also real programs and applications that need to be installed on a computer or mobile device. What are these programs and how they work, we will describe in this article.
What is www. Vkneo.ru?
There are many sites and services offering to see guests. Finding them is not so difficult, rather, they obsessively offer to check their page, flashing in ad blocks. True, if you name the first one that comes to mind when you mention this topic, then this is the site Vkneo.ru. The reviews left on it claim that using this resource to find out who was on your page, as well as to compile statistics of such visits to identify the most "active fans", is easy and simple. Simply enter the site through a special form that allows you to set your profile - and all information will be available at a glance.
A gullible user can do all these actions, but, unfortunately, he will not see any "guests" of his "VK" page. And the thing is that sites of this kind are a hoax, like Vkneo.ru. Reviews that describe how great this service is are most likely fake. And the developers of this product are ordinary scammers.
Deception scheme
How people are lured to sites like Vkneo.ru, we have already painted. In fact, the developers are simply playing on the feelings of a person who is interested in who visits his profile. After the user is interested, the next stage of deception comes into play - extortion.
After the registration procedure, a person sees a message in front of him, requiring him to pay for the service of searching and collecting data about users who have visited your profile. This request can be expressed in various forms, for example, by asking you to "identify" your mobile phone by sending a message. Another option is to send an SMS to your number with a request to enter the code that was sent to you in the field on the Vkneo.ru page (the reviews of the deceived people fully confirm this). Maybe someone does not know about it, but such a scheme is used to connect the "Subscription" service, available from many domestic operators. In the future, after its activation, funds from the account begin to be debited from the person, which he may not even be aware of.
Ultimately, after the debited money, the user does not receive information about his "guests", but understands that he was deceived.
How not to fall into the trap?
It's easy enough not to fall for the scammers. First, read reviews about sites like Vkneo.ru. Just do it not on the portal that offers you services, but on the Internet on other, real sites. There, users like you will write whether it is worth dealing with this resource. Second, carefullyfollow what you are asked to do. If in order to get the service you are looking for, you need to carry out some actions with passwords from accounts, with a mobile phone or, moreover, with a bank card, it is better to refuse it. Thirdly, think for yourself: if the VKontakte site has not connected such a function as showing the “guests” of your profile, then how can a third-party resource do this? Of course not.
