Posted on 08/04/2014 2:34:29 PM PDT by Vinylly
I keep getting an email from a Dr. Jack Clemes via Linkedin. I don't know who Dr. Jack Clemes is and I don't know what 'Linkedin' is either. He gave a reference knowing all about my Daughter and Son-in-law, where they live and where they work. I called my daughter to see if she knew anything about him. She responded that they have never heard of him. This is what makes me suspicious. I keep getting emails from him but always delete them. I really don't know what he wants and am afraid it is a scam. Has something like this ever happened to any of you.
They’re also using techniques to trick busy-body business people into clicking to upload their contacts for MORE datamining.
LinkedIn accomplishes nothing. Total waste of bandwidth. There’s a real opportunity for someone to drive them under before they sell to someone like Google or FB...
This appears to be like “my daily flog” which invites you to see pictures from a friend. Once you agree and go through the sign up they highjack your address book and send request in your name to folks in your address book pretending to be you.
Several of my friends have had this happen with Linkedin lately. The one that had responded to the invite from a “supposed” friend found that his address book was high jacked and he can’t get off of the “Linkedin” member list. i don’t know if he has checked to see if he actually was on the Linkedin official site or an imposter site.
I always send an email to the person that supposedly sent the invite and ask them if they actually sent it. I have never had anyone reply that they sent the invite.
Delete, spam it and never respond to these “invites”.
I wonder how many got that... ;)
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