Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Spam’ Category

LinkedIn Group Setting Changes… whu??

Monday, January 7th, 2013

I have gotten about a dozen emails from LinkedIn like this: I don't know about you but this BUGS me.  I've held off on writing about it because previous posts might have sounded too jaded (who me?  passionate? :p) Anyway, I think I know why LinkedIn is doing this, and this morning ...

Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn got BETTER when Twitter went away

Monday, September 10th, 2012

When I blogged about this a while back someone said that it was awesome that there wasn't anymore Twitter noise on LinkedIn. I thought it was a bad strategic move by Twitter.  Here's a little more to the story: Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Got Better When Twitter Shut Us Off, Move Was ...

LinkedIn Group Management: Moderating People

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

I am on a handful of Groups where my Discussion comments are moderated. In general, I think it is ridiculous. I want to see my comments fast, and I want to have the conversation build fast.  If you have a bottleneck in comments getting posted (at the whim of the mood of ...

Would You Connect With A Fake Account on LinkedIn?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Check out the account below?  Would you connect with it? I'm kind of surprised 142 people have connected...

LinkedIn Spammer: How to get rid of a bad LinkedIn Contact

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

I got a message from a first degree contact (I accept all invites, since I speak a lot and can't know or sit down with everyone who invites me) that said this: Thats Nice hearing back from you Bruce well My name is Angela you knw that Lol , Am single ...

New LinkedIn Spam – Pattern

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Yesterday I posted about some spam I am getting - four by mid-afternoon yesterday - ugh! Here's something I noticed... since I have a somewhat zero-tolerance policy on slimeball spammers, I go in and look for the connection to "remove"... One was from Alex V. Lambert (my apologies to anyone named ...

More LinkedIn Spam

Monday, May 16th, 2011

I'm getting more LinkedIn spam through direct messages. It's dissappointing because it hasn't been very common. Here's how this spammer started - it looks like they have a program to extract my title and other general information from my Profile, and marry it to a template message (the rest is as ...

LinkedIn Spam: Two Requests for LinkedIn

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

I hate getting crap email, especially from LinkedIn connections. I just got this: I want to be able to do two things from here: Mark as spam. On Twitter I can flag as spam AND block the contact.  Would be great to do that from here. Remove the Connection. The process now ...

LinkedIn Spam Email – NOT from LinkedIn

Friday, October 1st, 2010

I got a note from John Reinke, one of my favorite thinkers, who warns against a new, very prevalant spam email that looks like it is from LinkedIn but it is not. Here's what it looks like in your inbox: When you click on it, it looks totally legit (but it is ...