09-12-18 09:53 poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All about LinkedIn Scamming?
Howdy! pF,
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I got a linkedin request from someone at a company that I don't have on
my resume. He claimed that my name came up in their "unclaimed funds" research or something like that.
Bells went a 'ringing in my head - looked like a typical phishing scam, but yet not. They had information about me that wasn't readily
available, had a LinkedIn Profile that showed current employment at the employer in question, some other background information in the profile
as well...
I'm tempted to call and verify employment, but not interested enough to jump through hoops. I was going to ask the person to send me an email
from the company to a throwaway account, but I blocked the user
already.
I began using Juno Email in the mid-1990's on Dial-Up.
In 1996 I signed up with a local ISP that I could Log On using Dial-Up.
Now I use DSL.
The first time I got a Email from someone who began using linkedin asking
me to join linkedin I went to linkedin's Home Page and read their TOS &
Privacy pages.
When I read that any idea I wrote to another linkedin user about could be
used by linkedin to create a product but no credit would be given to me
for the idea, also linkedin would not compensate me if they made $$$$$$.$$'s from MY IDEA.
From what I read I decided not to use their service.
Occasionally I will see a Email from someone I know with a linkedin Address.
I called someone about receiving a linkedin Email from them and was told
they didn't send it, but they had allowed linkedin access to their Email Address Book.
I guess that is how the Email got sent to me.
I guess I'm lucky, in the many years since I got the first request I've received less than ten Emails asking me to join linkedin.
The BBS is the only social media I use, and that began in 1984 when I
bought a Commodore 64, 300 baud Modem and Floppy Drive and called a local Commodore BBS on Dial-Up.
I wanted to know how to use my PC, and that is still the main reason I
Log On this BBS.
I know I will never become a Mister Know-It-All, but am glad to be able to
Read and Write messages in the echo conferences I've joined so I can
learn a bit more about computer use and other subjects.
Ocassionally I may write about something I learned to help other users.
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