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SCP-1471 is an application from the mythos of the SCP Foundation website. Its debut story, SCP-1471 — MalO ver1.0.0, was posted in February 2013 by a writer known as LurkD. Despite the current use of the tag, SCP-1471 is not a character and has little actual appearance on e621.

SCP-1471 is a 9.8 megabyte free-to-download phone app titled "MalO ver1.0.0" that manifests within listings on mobile app stores. It inexplicably circumvents the application approval process and goes directly to distribution. Once installed on a smartphone or tablet device, the app will be entirely inaccessible as no icons or shortcuts are created for the application and cannot be deleted by any program managers. Store descriptions describes SCP-1471 as intended for an undisclosed recipient or demographic, marketing it as a source of companionship in the form of "MalO".

SCP-1471 has four stages of activity.

• Within twenty-four hours of downloading SCP-1471, the affected device will begin receiving images through their text program every three to six hours; these images featuring an individual (ostensibly the sender) designated SCP-1471-A at locations frequented by the device user.
• Upon forty-eight hours since download (receiving as many as eight to sixteen images), the images will begin to be taken at locations recently visited by the recipient after their departure.
• Seventy-two hours after download (twelve to twenty-four images), the images will be real-time candid shots of the user, implying that SCP-1471-A is in close proximity despite no physical evidence.
• If an individual has been in possession of an SCP-1471 affected device and exposed to the produced images for over ninety hours (fifteen to thirty images), they will irreversibly be afflicted with hallucinations of SCP-1471-A in their peripheral vision and/or reflective surfaces. This condition can be avoided if visual exposure is sufficiently avoided within the preceding ninety hours.

While SCP-1471 and its components have posed no direct physical harm to any individual; the highly enigmatic, personally invasive, and visually unsettling nature of it has caused mental fatigue and psychological distress to recipients as expected when faced with a supernatural stalker, with some cases of people tormented by the app committing suicide.

Due to the indeterminable source, virality, and relatively benign yet disruptive effects of SCP-1471, the phenomenon is designated the Euclid containment class. At least 9,405 devices effected with SCP-1471 are in containment, with more potentially undiscovered or to be infected. Special containment procedures utilize a self-uploading malware program to render devices suspected to have downloaded SCP-1471 inoperable and available for seizure by field agents.

External Links

• SCP Foundation Wikidot
• SCP-1471 — MalO ver1.0.0
• Capone