How to deal with LinkedIn spam?

StarDust9182 said:
If they have covertly checked out non-linkln application data, then what other data has been checked out.

How did you verify that they are really linkedln web addresses? Did you access the DNS or use a sniffer? (http://www.coderanch.com/t/358827/Servlets/java/hiding-URL-address-fake)
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well, i suppose i'm not absolutely sure, although i'm reasonably sure as i checked both addresses within the email -- the confirm contact address as well as the unsubscribe address -- and both appear to be legitimate.

i used web-sniffer.net to do so, and while this may or may not be the best of sites to check verification, the site does provide for a comprehensive enough picture of the address(es).
 
StarDust9182 said:
There are of man-in the-middle hacks (for example - http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.ca/2013/10/how-nsa-hacked-google-and-yahoo-part.html)

and ucode hacking issues in URLs (and many many more).

I am not trying to exaggerate the point, merely demonstrate that the art of hacking magic is based on misdirection and trust. We see what we expect to see. The internet is not safe and can't be made so currently IMO.
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i agree, although i'm also not so hesitant to cautiously call foul on linkedin's part. large web conglomerates have been known to engage in behaviour that isn't very noble to say the least.

ultimately, i have no idea whether the links are fraudulent after reading your last response, although i'm reasonably sure they haven't compromised my computer (a macbook air). perhaps the operating system i'm using has something to do with this, though, should they be fraudulent.
 
they aren't fraudulent.

i just emailed the person (via private email, not through linkedin) who linkedin sent an add-to-your-network request this morning and received the following:

Hello David,

I wanted to add you to my LinkIn network, it is on my personal email settings instead of my work email setting. My apologies. I hope you're doing great and that you've completed your doctoral program! :)

Are you still in Los Angeles, by the way?

Best wishes,

Maria

Sincerely,

Maria (surname omitted) -Community Manager
Office Ph/Fax: (number omitted)
(address omitted)
Los Angeles,Ca 90028
​
 
that, or she doesn't know what is going on, although i'm sure she has given, as one can infer, linkedin permission to access her email address book.
 
Glad to hear it worked out. I have changed the service level on my "bad" email address to junk and moved most people out to other ones. It's the one that I now hand out to untested sources.

You are not the only one annoyed with the spam sent - https://www.linkedin.com/today/post...853953-factoid-to-give-big-data-a-perspective

Canada's attempt - http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/canada-s-new-anti-spam-law-applies-to-almost-all-businesses-1.1885477

" .... Additionally, starting on July 1, 2017, individuals and organizations in Canada will be able to file a lawsuit against anyone they believe has violated the law...." Lawyers ...... start your engines!
 
StarDust9182 said:
Glad to hear it worked out. I have changed the service level on my "bad" email address to junk and moved most people out to other ones. It's the one that I now hand out to untested sources.

You are not the only one annoyed with the spam sent - https://www.linkedin.com/today/post...853953-factoid-to-give-big-data-a-perspective

Canada's attempt - http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/canada-s-new-anti-spam-law-applies-to-almost-all-businesses-1.1885477

" .... Additionally, starting on July 1, 2017, individuals and organizations in Canada will be able to file a lawsuit against anyone they believe has violated the law...." Lawyers ...... start your engines!
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thanks for helping -- much appreciated!

and lawyers start your engines, indeed!
 
Hey -- if we're voting, I'm voting

LINKEDIN IS EVIL.

I've been in the middle of it with them for over a year, and I STILL get stream of "Do you wish to Connect with this person??" and have it turn out to be a friend's anti-spam alias-- complete with mispeilings -- no way to get that except by having hacked my email list.

Their business model has only the flimsiest of moats, and I'd be shorting the crap out of 'em, if it didn't violate my rule about not shorting momentum/fashion stocks, no matter how good lucking the play. Uh-uh, no way.

BUT LINKEDIN'S DAY IS COMING, and it will *not* be A Good Day.
 
This problem has nothing to do with LinkedIn.

It is simply a virus that remotely connects to your email account and sends fake invitations to all members of your contact list and/or people in your "Sent" email folder. In other words, you are receiving these emails because someone else's computer is infected and unknowingly sending invitations (even though some people may send genuine but random Linkedln invitation requests once in a blue moon).

If you do NOT have a Lindedln account you can re-direct these annoying emails to your Trash email folder simply by creating a filter. For example you can tell your email program/service to send any email with the keyword "LinkedIn" in the subject line to the Trash folder (or "Junk", or whatever folder you like).

See your email program/service for instructions on how to create filters
 
Thanks for that post.

I should clarify that I am not saying that linkln had anything to do with incorrect emails being sent. Only that I am CERTAIN that the people who supposedly sent them did not send them to me. Without that clue, I would never have known something was wrong.

Facebook and Linkln among others have had major hacks in the past few years and that I suspect that some people using those programs today are hacked and watched without ever knowing it. If you have not regularly changed your access passwords on each and every program ......
 
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