The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam - How to remove

There are many sites and apps online that claim to offer free TikTok likes and followers. Free follower generators are all scams. Most of the sites that promise to give you free TikTok followers only show you ads, while others try o steal your login information.

If you come across a site or a browser extension that offers to give you free TikTok followers, don’t believe it. Don’t interact with it, just close it.

About the Free TikTok Followers scam:

Threat type	Adware, scam.
How the Free TikTok Followers scam spreads	Sites that host this scam are found in internet search results, promoted on hacked sites, social media, etc.
Dangers of the scam	Wasted time, advertisements for potentially harmful apps and sites, leaked TikTok login credentials, installed malware.
How to avoid the Free TikTok Followers scam	Avoid free follower generators and hacks, use ad blockers and anti-malware apps (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.), remove suspicious apps and extensions from your device.

How the Free TikTok Followers sites work

This post was inspired by the “Free TikTok Followers – Tiktok Followers Free” browser extension. This extension can be found on the Chrome Web Store, where it has a thousand users and overwhelmingly negative reviews.

There are so many websites that offer to “generate” or “hack” some free followers for your TikTok account. They’re easy to find, too – they appear in internet search results.

Unfortunately, being on the Chrome Web Store or Google’s search results doesn’t mean that a site is safe. The apps, extensions, and sites that promise free TikTok followers are all lying.

What the Free TikTok Followers sites really do

There are many websites that promise to generate free TikTok followers. In my experience, most of them work like this:

• They ask you to input your user name. Many don’t check if the username is real.
• They ask you to choose how many followers you wish to receive.
• Then they say that there is unusually high traffic from your area and you will have to verify that you are not a bot.
• To “verify”, you are asked to complete surveys, sign up for subscriptions, interact with ads, download shady apps, follow other TikTok accounts.

Most of the time when I use a fake TikTok name (when there was no account with such a name), the Free TikTok Followers sites don’t care – they still pretend to add new followers. That’s because all that the Free TikTok Followers sites want is to show ads. To get people to click on those ads, the follower generator sites insist that if users complete all the surveys and other verification requirements, they’ll get free followers.

There are occasionally sites that give you followers in exchange for money or for downloading apps. However, these followers tend to be fake and don’t engage with your account.

What are the dangers of the Free TikTok Followers scam?

If you diligently complete the verification requirements raised by the Free TikTok Followers sites, it will cost you time, money, and privacy.

The Free TikTok Followers sites often advertise subscription services with costly weekly fees. They also promote various apps, some of which might be safe while others are fleeceware (useless apps with high subscription costs). There are also apps that promise free TikTok followers but only deliver advertising spam.

Though I haven’t encountered this myself, there are apparently some Free TikTok Followers sites that offer not just ads, but prompt visitors to download actual malware (The Three Kinds of Scams Trying to Trick You on TikTok).

Occasionally, a Free TikTok Followers site asks you to log in to your account with your username, email, and password. These are phishing sites – websites that impersonate legitimate sites to steal people’s login credentials. The people behind phishing sites might sell the credentials or use them to hack accounts.

Even if you avoid malicious ads, the Free TikTok Followers sites still waste your time.

How to avoid TikTok Followers scams?

Don’t look for free TikTok follower generators

While there are tools that let you get new followers (various “growth tools”), they’re usually paid and some of them use bots and other fake traffic. There is no way to get real TikTok followers for free. All the sites and apps that claim to give you free likes, followers, subscribers, etc. are scams.

We’ve seen this scam before with YouTube Subscribers Generator, free V-Bucks hacks, various Bitcoin giveaway scams, etc. All these sites do is convince people to click on ads. And sometimes steal their usernames and passwords.

You might be able to avoid some of the Free TikTok Follower sites by using ad blockers and malicious site blockers. Ad blockers can help you stay safe online, though you shouldn’t rely on them completely. It’s important to be careful.

Remove Free TikTok Followers extensions and apps

Uninstall any apps and extensions that promise to give you free followers. Below are instructions for removing browser extensions.

It’s advisable to check your device for other suspicious apps. You can do that with an anti-malware program like Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for Windows, or others. If they find malware, remove it.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted browser extensions

TopRemoving The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to "Free TikTok Followers" Scam. Click on the trash bin icon next to The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to "Free TikTok Followers" Scam, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything "Free TikTok Followers" Scam related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to "Free TikTok Followers" Scam. Click on the "Remove" icon next to The "Free TikTok Followers" Scam or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.