Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Spam’ Category
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Spam | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Maintenance, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | 5 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Maintenance, LinkedIn Profiles, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | 3 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Spam, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
