Utilizing Social Engineering to View Private Facebook / Myspace Profiles
September 10th, 2008 | Written by Andrew | 88,211 views | Published in Hacks, How To's | 44 Comments
Update 12/14/09:
New Codes that work, one for Facebook videos @ http://laatedaa.com/forums/index.php/topic,1018.0.html
and the Facebook picture code @ http://laatedaa.com/forums/index.php/topic,1016.0.html
Update 7/22/09: New code for Facebook has been released! More info about it here http://www.laatedaa.com/2009/07/22/view-comments-and-pictures-on-public-profiles-in-facebook/
Update 3/30/09: View private Myspace Photos here…
http://www.laatedaa.com/2009/03/30/view-private-myspace-pictures-2/
Update 2/22/09 New Comments Code!: http://www.laatedaa.com/2009/02/22/view-private-myspace-comments/
Update 11/10/08:
Try this new method if the user is on Myspace profile 2.0
http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/11/10/myspace-20-loophole/
This [laatedaa?] guide is meant to show people the steps on viewing someone else’s Facbook or Myspace profile without the need of any confusing and messy codes that may in the future be patched. The technique used below is the oldest form of obtaining information. It’s called social engineering. I’ll take social engineering to the next step by applying it to be able to view private Facebook or Myspace profiles. This method is highly effective and will 90% of the time work.
The following steps are intended for educational purposes only.
Although this may be considered time-consuming, you will definetly have all the information / pictures you want from the target person.
Step 1
Find your target profile, the person who you want to view their private profile.
Step 2
If you know their friend ID, type that into the URL where the friend ID is supposed to be. If not, search their name in the search friends field until you find that person.
Step 3
Click on “View Friends”. This next step requires in choosing someone who you think is kind of close to the person but not best friends because we are going to make a “fake” Facebook profile that matches the target friend’s name and picture. If you know what school they go to that would be nice. If you know their graduation date, even better. If they are currently not in school, maybe try a co-worker, or outside friends. The more you narrow down, the more likely the target person will add you as a friend, opening the doors to all their information.
Step 4
Carefully choose one of their friends and make sure you note their name and copy their picture to your desktop by right clicking the image and hitting “save as”.
Step 5
You will need to create a new email account or use a spare one you have to create a new Facebook / Myspace account.
Step 6
Use the information taken in Step 4 (Name and Picture), and fill in all the info about their friend into your “fake” profile.
Step 7
Add all of her friends that go to the same school (and perferably same graduation year). Having more friends makes it look more legit, before adding the target to your friends list, that you are an actual person. Most of the time, the target will not even know that there have been two of the same names in her friends list.
Step 8
Add your target person using your “fake” profile and wha la!, the keys of the locked door are given to you!
Variations
One variation of this method is to find the target’s school (high school or university) and create a profile for that particular school. Make it sound enticing so that they would join the profile such as “San Francisco High School Class of ‘04″ Then find a picture on Google Images and add the target as well as all the people in San Francisco High School ‘04 to make everything look convincing.
Conclusion
Of course there is a very small chance that you may pick the wrong friend to create a profile of, but the chances are very slim. 90% of the time, the target will add you, letting you read all about their profile. The only way to make this method sucessful is to find the right friend and keeping everything legit. Also, you need to get the target’s friend’s name correct and make sure you use one of their pictures! If all goes well, you will be one lucky person. Repeat for every profile you want to view (yes, I know, it can be tedious).
Any questions or comments, or even suggestions, post them in the comments.
Carry the discussion on to the forums!
http://www.laatedaa.com/forums/
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September 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm (#)
this is a comment i myself did this already a long time ago and belive me i got a best friend from another befriend of the target i want. and it didn’t work guess why one is you chosses someone close the target i wanted ask his other best friends id he open a new page and his buddy said no sooo i didn’t get accepted.
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September 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm (#)
Which is why I say pick your target’s friend CAREFULLY! If you pick the right friend, then your in!
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September 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pm (#)
oops delet the comment it didn’t make no sence at all. what i was trying to say was i did this trick already and it didn’t work. because i did a fake account as we say but the main target end up asking his real friend if he made a new page. thats how i got busted and didn’t get accepted.
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September 10th, 2008 at 5:57 pm (#)
oohhh i knwon what you mean andrew, but dang is ganna take me a long as time. to get all those friends on her page to mine as a fake one, to do this trick your talking about. I’ll give it a try thanks andrew
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September 10th, 2008 at 6:02 pm (#)
yes i have heard of this before, to some it does work to others it don’t cause is just to much work and the target some how finds out. this same trick is on youtube already. the best way will always be a code, like the last one we had months back how i miss it sooooooo much.
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September 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm (#)
Eric – I don’t think you need that many friends. Just like around 7-10 would suffice. I know a lot of people who personally don’t check each other’s profiles and just adds them without thinking twice (I know I do).
Jesse – I shall post a code ASAP once it is found! I know you guys are waiting patiently here. There is bound to be one soon
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September 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm (#)
aww you so cute muchoss besitos to you, but not in a gay way ahah thanks for replaying back
, to day i thought i’ll let all of you known an andrew i was watching channel G4 i pretty sure you guys no what channel is that by now. and in the bottom it says something about facebook, Mark The owner of FB or what ever he is said starting from then end of this week all memebers of FB will be force yeap thats the word he use will be force to accept the new layout of fb which si the new thing that say try out blabla new application he did. he says everyone will have one so when you sign in by next week or more it will show the new page. and he also mention something about the memebers adapting some crap and thats why and thats the reason we need it, i didn’t realy get what he meant in that part. so is know biggy just thought i’ll let ya known what i saw today. but i wonder why does he want everyone to have the new layout.
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September 11th, 2008 at 4:00 pm (#)
I think the new layout is crap. I don’t like it at all.
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September 12th, 2008 at 8:17 pm (#)
agree.
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September 15th, 2008 at 4:47 pm (#)
Alot of people really don’t even refuse friend requests from a person who has alot of friends. Someone more intrepid than myself should really set up a sort of myspace accoutn just for this sort of social engineering thing and share teh password with us here. Nothing really to lose since the entire profile is fake.
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September 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm (#)
How would you guys like it if I created a forum (thread style topics) for you guys to discuss all these matters? I think it would work out simplier than the comment style threads that are hard to manage after 20 comments long. The other FB post has over 200 comments.
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September 16th, 2008 at 6:50 pm (#)
to anonymous god that would be such a great idea if only i can get someone to do the same for me in FB.
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September 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pm (#)
http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/09/16/laatedaa-discussion-boards-launched/
Check it out, register and start posting on the boards with a thread style feel. Talk about your codes here in an organized matter.
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September 20th, 2008 at 11:42 pm (#)
If any of you were interested in Photobucket stuff,
http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/09/20/photobucket-picture-scanner-fusking/
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September 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm (#)
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You act as if you wrote this. Why dont you try giving credit to where you got the idea from buddy. Of course,] you will say “oh someone sent it to me on my blog.” Whatever dude, you just keep lying and denying but anyone who knows how to use google, and cares to, can figure out that you rip off other peoples ideas.
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It is really pathetic that you troll code sites and you rip off their codes and then post them as if YOU made them. And then you make money off of someone elses work. Why dont you learn how to make codes and ideas for yourself buddy. Or try going out and earning an honest living. Probably out of your realm I bet.
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Go ahead and delete this comment if you want, because will keep replacing comments everyday that you delete them so you are wasting your time.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm (#)
well to be honest, it isn’t that original of an idea. anyone can make a fake profile and try to add their targets on it. maybe andrew’s approach seems like its copying (i’m guessing from the GUG private boards), but its pretty common sense.
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:47 pm (#)
i agree with lyla if you get to look at it is not a big deal at all, because right now myself i’m checking some other sites out about codes etc.. and they have the same thing only in short little words “like just create a fake profile and add the person blabla this blabla bla that”. same thing hack the reason why i search other sites is to get a different code or something. thats what the internet is for. hey Lyla what private boards are you talking about is it those where people have to pay right.
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September 24th, 2008 at 7:54 pm (#)
Do you receive any other information on other sites? As in do they have codes I don’t have jesse?
Guys, please register up on the forums at http://www.laatedaa.com/forums/
I would love to get to know all of you guys better and personally. We can even start a Facebook / Myspace thread in where we can try to add the targets profile in hope of getting in!
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September 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm (#)
to andrew well nope not yet babe besides the one about the best last code that facebook fix. i have them writen down some where these sites where well they actually post ideas the same way you do andrew but not codes at all. and i’m pretty sure everyone knowns them plus they don’t up to date like you do so theres no bigy in them.
hahah check you out andrew don’t get me wrong dude i would soooo love that idea about the facebook/myspace thing. but i don’t known
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm (#)
jesse, yeah the GUG boards have a private section where they post codes, but you have to pay for those.
the trick andrew posted can work, but sometimes people really do refuse friend requests from people they don’t know.
any new leads for codes?
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October 19th, 2008 at 3:54 am (#)
This is creepy.
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October 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm (#)
nope none at all lyla the reason i didn’t go and make a fake fb profile is one i suck at it and the person i want wont add me because of the same reason you said lyla. about not knowing the person. up to now i’m going crazy lyla still trying to find a code or trying to crack one. which i suck at it totally ehe. oh and thanks for replying back
lyla.
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October 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm (#)
do you think these people are for real? i wish there was osmeone out there that wont charge and will hack someonce profile for me. and who chekc these poepl out what do you guys think?
***EDITED LINK**** (Malicious site)
copy the link and paste it in your browers.
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October 21st, 2008 at 5:58 pm (#)
@Dave – That site grabs people’s passwords using an illegitimate way. They will setup a site that mocks the layout of Myspace or Facebook and whenever you enter your email in there, your info is logged, which is then transferred over to plain text so they see your login info. Don’t do it guys, trust me on this one.
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October 25th, 2008 at 5:28 pm (#)
okay cool thx andrew thats the reason why i asked.
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November 1st, 2008 at 1:37 pm (#)
I just want to say you are doing an amazing job with these codes.
I really enjoyed the one were you can view private comments.
I just want to say thank you and ask if you have
one that can help me view private pictures?
If so can you email me or ect.
its really important.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 pm (#)
I tried this and it worked! Well I simply made a copy of someones account. I didn’t even have to go through the faff of adding friends.
I did it, grabbed a ton of pics and deleted the fake account.
However I must say, its a bit of an anti-climax being able to finally see the pictures. Somewhat depressing, but whatever.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm (#)
New code to allow to view pictures in Myspace profiles.
http://www.laatedaa.com/2008/11/01/view-private-myspace-pictures/
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December 31st, 2008 at 3:37 am (#)
I had some luck (accidental) with running the myspace ID # on the web, came up under the coolchaser layout site, complete with all pictures from the person’s myspace account. The original myspace was public, where I first saw pics, then it went private, but apparently the coochaser site keeps the pictures…so there they are again.
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January 30th, 2009 at 11:51 am (#)
The thing is, when you make a profile it says how many friends you have and stuff.. and I know you can block them from seeing friends but it also has a thing on Facebook that says “This person is new to facebook, help them get started.. suggest friends, comment on photos.” or something, and it may be sort of suspicious for the person who you are adding..
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February 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am (#)
Impersonating someone else is still illegal.
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March 13th, 2009 at 1:53 am (#)
Skip all this and use the port scan tool at: View Private Facebook Profiles
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April 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm (#)
I’ve tried the private facebook viewer thing, but all it does it direct me back to the login page for facebook. When it say enter the last word at the bottom of the address page below, will that word always be same?
thanks
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April 10th, 2009 at 3:57 pm (#)
all i wannna noo is how to get on someones facebook without adding them as a friend! how do i do iit ! ??
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April 12th, 2009 at 9:00 am (#)
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May 19th, 2009 at 3:06 pm (#)
Really code is hard to do just go to Private Profile viewer and after a simple email submission it worked for me…..
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June 17th, 2009 at 10:32 pm (#)
Try putting your target ID here for others to add.
http://laatedaa.com/forums/index.php/board,19.0.html
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July 22nd, 2009 at 9:21 am (#)
Update 7/22/09: New code for Facebook has been released! More info about it here http://www.laatedaa.com/2009/07/22/view-comments-and-pictures-on-public-profiles-in-facebook/
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July 25th, 2009 at 7:18 am (#)
Just go to ***Censored*** It works there.
Admin Edit: SCAM Alert. Make you pay for a service we know that does not work. Don’t try it guys.
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November 26th, 2009 at 3:18 am (#)
Did this…took about 3 days.
got absolutely everything i needed…was well in with the whole circle of friends.
facebook deleted the account after a week…..maybe someone got wise and reported it.
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