Anyone getting LinkedIn requests from totally random people- i.e. no one with whom you would ever have a business connection? I have gotten a number of those over the years, and just ignore them, but today I got one that was really “out there”.
It had a note with it (came through on my email) and was basically a romantic solicitation telling me how cute and attractive I was and how the guy would like to get to know me. He had no LinkedIn connections. It was pretty funny, really. I blocked him and reported the invite (which isn’t that easy to figure out how to do). Just wondered if anyone else gets these or if my LinkedIn profile is just so cute he couldn’t help himself!
I get more and more of them too, along with my favorite–emails from my long-lost foreign relative who has a Large Sum that they would like to deposit in my account.
I’m not on LinkedIn, but a while back I got an invitation to connect from someone I don’t know that listed three people she is supposedly connected to whom I am acquainted with in person.
I just got an email from Linkedin telling me there has been a breach and the acount is frozen until
I go in and change the password. Maybe it is connected. You should report it.
I have gotten a few random requests- but no romantic solicitations.
I have also been a “random requester” (by accident). I looked up a man I worked for years ago, found someone I thought was him (same name, same type of job, similar looks) and sent him a request. He accepted and it was then that I realized that it was the wrong man.
Not romantic, but random, yes. There is usually some sort of logic though- someone in sales or marketing trying to expand the Rolodex (non-industry specific, like insurance) or something like that. Maybe I have been lucky? Or maybe your profile is exceptionally cute?
I am sooooooo over Linked In. I think it was the “endorsements” that did it for me. People I vaguely know have endorsed me for things I know nothing about. It’s useless.
My rule is that I will only link to people I’ve actually met. Unfortunately some of my connections are people I met years ago whom I literally don’t remember.
I agree! I hate the “endorsements” and have never endorsed anyone, even though a bunch of people have endorsed me seemingly out of the goodness of their hearts.
I won’t link to people I don’t know (or would vouch for) either.
Funny…I have friends who have requested I link with them…or,whatever it’s called. And I do…but I never look on LinkedIn. Ever.
But back to the OP. I know two people who have gotten a LinkedIn request from the same named supposed member. The invite is provocative, and is from a total stranger who appears to be spamming LinkedIn members.
Anyone else get an invite like this…from a total stranger?
Yes, I have gotten a ton of endorsements, but am not looking for a job or hiring, so not sure that I am “valuable.”. Oh well, my webmaster made me an account and said I should have one, tho I have no profile, cute or otherwise (unless I’ve forgotten it).
Not a LinkedIn fan, but want to suggest that all emails requesting that one must click a link and change passwords be regarded with suspicion. Double check the email address, go in through a separate routine access route or do a search for “xyz” company security breach or scams. I have had “my bank” send links requesting this- the scammers have ranged from rank amateurs to sophisticated enough to look very credible. Such emails can be forwarded to the organization’s online security office.
The endorsements are utterly worthless, but the industry networking is VERY valuable-- it’s an electronic Roladex. It’s enabled me to reestablish professional ties w colleagues from 20 years ago. When I am assessing a job candidate, I do use LinkedIn to see whether the candidate and I have common associates. It’s also useful for reconnecting w classmates with whom I don’t want to be so familiar on FB.
I must look too grimly serious in my profile photo because I get zero romantic solicitations, only headhunter solicitations.
The security email did come from LinkedIn. I did all the checking and they told you to go to their werbsite to intiate a new password, no links in the email.
Well, I think Linked In remains the place to post them, but as I said above, I’m no fan. I occasionally get messages from recruiters looking for someone who looks like me, but this generally does the recruiters more good than it does me.
I also received a dating kind of solicitation from Linkedin. People can’t send you an in-mail unless you are linked. There was a random request for linkedin and I accepted it. This person then sent me a dating like email. I reported this person to Linkedin, and they didn’t do anything about it. If they want to make it professional they need to monitor it better.
I thought linkedin periodically sends to the members’ e-mail base. I get a few requests, all from people I know, usually at the beginnnig of the month. I just ignore them and they stop after a few days.
