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Posted on 08/04/2014 2:34:29 PM PDT by Vinylly

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1 posted on 08/04/2014 2:34:29 PM PDT by Vinylly
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To: Vinylly

No but thanks for the heads up.


2 posted on 08/04/2014 2:35:54 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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Add him to your junk list and forget him. If your gut tells you its a scam then its a scam.

BTW, anything from linkedin is duplicated if you go to the site. So if its real you can confirm it there.


3 posted on 08/04/2014 2:37:19 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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LinkedIn is a business social media.


4 posted on 08/04/2014 2:37:24 PM PDT by xone
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http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-jack-clemes/88/5ba/b75


5 posted on 08/04/2014 2:38:28 PM PDT by xone
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To: Vinylly

Google him. Suspicious.


6 posted on 08/04/2014 2:39:09 PM PDT by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation leads to ... you don't want to go there, buddy.)
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Linked In is obviously involved in a massive drive to become a Facebook-sized phenomenon. I’m getting tons of emails supposedly from acquaintances wanting me to join their Linked In circle. I just dump ‘em. Linked In appears to be data mining using Facebook and other social sites to determine who knows who.


7 posted on 08/04/2014 2:39:28 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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If you are not a member of LinkedIn, then they will not be sending you emails. If you look at the email headers, you will almost certainly see that this email is not really from LinkedIn.


8 posted on 08/04/2014 2:40:20 PM PDT by proxy_user
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Good point. Spammers and scammers could easily use Linked In for their own purposes. But Linked In is definitely getting more aggressive in its own efforts to sign up members.


9 posted on 08/04/2014 2:42:27 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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If you don’t have a LinkedIn account, consider it a scam or virus “opportunity.”


10 posted on 08/04/2014 2:42:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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He’s a cousin to a Mr. Richard Fedder from Fort Lee, NJ.


11 posted on 08/04/2014 2:42:41 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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Linkedin is one of those sites that email addresses are ‘mines’ from.

You might try ‘bouncing’ the email back to the sender. If they are legit, they may get the message. If the email is trying to sell you something, place it in the ‘spam’ filter your ISP provides.


12 posted on 08/04/2014 2:43:46 PM PDT by TomGuy
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I received a LinkedIn request to join from an office manager with my company in the nearest office. I contacted him; he said he is not signed up with them. I suspect someone who is signed up had him on their e-mail list and was hacked.

Summary execution is too good for hackers.


13 posted on 08/04/2014 2:45:56 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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That happened to me. LinkedIn sent invitations to everyone I had ever sent an EMAIL from my google account. I still don’t understand how it happened.


14 posted on 08/04/2014 2:48:05 PM PDT by DManA
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My husband left LinkedIn a year ago. He still receives emails from people wanting to link to him. They DO come thru LinkedIn, but they are NOT from the individuals. LinkedIn appears to generate these emails from their files. This has also happened to another friend of my husband who had quit LinkedIn.

FB did this for a time, as well. I would get invitations from actual friends and acquaintances, but they did not send them. FB did. I never responded thru FB and never joined and the messages stopped.


15 posted on 08/04/2014 2:49:33 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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One possibility... I know lawyers are employing doctors to make cold calls/emails based on medical information discovered in regard to class action suits.


16 posted on 08/04/2014 2:50:04 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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I've been a LinkedIn member for a few years. Basically it's a way for me to keep my resume "out there" as well as keep in touch with present and former colleagues should I ever find myself in a job-hunting situation. Likewise, some good candidates have come to me through LinkedIn that we have hired. So for the most part, Linkedin seems on the up and up.

However in recent months, LinkedIn has this new "profile update" feature where if you aren't careful, everybody in your address book who is not already connected to you will get a LinkedIn invite. This can be disconcerting if you have a lot of people in your address book who are not work colleagues because they you will have aunts, cousins, casual friends and whatnot getting these invites and they will think you are spamming them.

17 posted on 08/04/2014 2:50:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: headstamp 2

Did your grandma Nanna Roseanne Roseannadanna tell you that?


18 posted on 08/04/2014 2:51:19 PM PDT by DManA
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Makes sense. My husband has a gmail account. When I was receiving the FB invites, I did not have a gmail account.


19 posted on 08/04/2014 2:51:29 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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