Recently, LinkedIn has been targeted by spammers or phishers. I've received emails with hot links to a web site purportedly run by LinkedIn, but when I forwarded the email to the LinkedIn administrators, they told me it was a fake. So I wouldn't assume that these invitations are really coming from the people they are supposedly coming from.
If possible, these invitations should just be filtered out automatically, like any other junk mail or spam. If they are legitimate, they should be sent to the invitee, not the list.
Yes, the system send a non custom invite....automatically send... clearly invasive... excuse me friends...we are friends beyond linkedin.
Best regards
José
2010/11/30 David dfkettle@gmail.com:
Recently, LinkedIn has been targeted by spammers or phishers. I've received emails with hot links to a web site purportedly run by LinkedIn, but when I forwarded the email to the LinkedIn administrators, they told me it was a fake. So I wouldn't assume that these invitations are really coming from the people they are supposedly coming from.
If possible, these invitations should just be filtered out automatically, like any other junk mail or spam. If they are legitimate, they should be sent to the invitee, not the list.
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
Yes, the system send a non custom invite....automatically send... clearly invasive... excuse me friends...we are friends beyond linkedin.
How automatic was it ? Can you describe how it happened ? LinkedIn is the only «social network» site I'm registered on, so naturally I'd like to know what kind of people they are. Plus, it's been happening several times recently on pd-list, so, it's of interest to pd-list, I suppose.
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
Thanks Mathieu, it happens that linkedin invite your mail contacts, not segmented by digital behavior, simply import the contacts from gmail, as in the tradigital marketing and becomes invasive, especially if you use it for the first time and do not understand how it works.
Best regards
José
2010/12/7 Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
Yes, the system send a non custom invite....automatically send... clearly invasive... excuse me friends...we are friends beyond linkedin.
How automatic was it ? Can you describe how it happened ? LinkedIn is the only «social network» site I'm registered on, so naturally I'd like to know what kind of people they are. Plus, it's been happening several times recently on pd-list, so, it's of interest to pd-list, I suppose.
_______________________________________________________________________ | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
Like I said, Linkedin has been the victim of hacker attacks recently. I received a bogus email supposedly from Linkedin, asking me to click on some link in the email. I forwarded it to the admin at Linkedin, and he said it wasn't from Linkedln. So I wouldn't blame it on them if some of their customers are careless. It probably has nothing to do with them.
David.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Jose Luis Santorcuato santorcuato76@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Mathieu, it happens that linkedin invite your mail contacts, not segmented by digital behavior, simply import the contacts from gmail, as in the tradigital marketing and becomes invasive, especially if you use it for the first time and do not understand how it works.
Best regards
José
2010/12/7 Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
Yes, the system send a non custom invite....automatically send... clearly invasive... excuse me friends...we are friends beyond linkedin.
How automatic was it ? Can you describe how it happened ? LinkedIn is the only «social network» site I'm registered on, so naturally I'd like to know what kind of people they are. Plus, it's been happening several times recently on pd-list, so, it's of interest to pd-list, I suppose.
_______________________________________________________________________ | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
-- http://arselectronicachile.blogspot.com http://comunicacionnativa.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/santorcuato
It might be worth talking to them, though. Maybe they can block any emails going to the list from their end. Nobody should be sending invitations to a mailing list, anyway.
David.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:51 AM, David dfkettle@gmail.com wrote:
Like I said, Linkedin has been the victim of hacker attacks recently. I received a bogus email supposedly from Linkedin, asking me to click on some link in the email. I forwarded it to the admin at Linkedin, and he said it wasn't from Linkedln. So I wouldn't blame it on them if some of their customers are careless. It probably has nothing to do with them.
David.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Jose Luis Santorcuato santorcuato76@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Mathieu, it happens that linkedin invite your mail contacts, not segmented by digital behavior, simply import the contacts from gmail, as in the tradigital marketing and becomes invasive, especially if you use it for the first time and do not understand how it works.
Best regards
José
2010/12/7 Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Jose Luis Santorcuato wrote:
Yes, the system send a non custom invite....automatically send... clearly invasive... excuse me friends...we are friends beyond linkedin.
How automatic was it ? Can you describe how it happened ? LinkedIn is the only «social network» site I'm registered on, so naturally I'd like to know what kind of people they are. Plus, it's been happening several times recently on pd-list, so, it's of interest to pd-list, I suppose.
_______________________________________________________________________ | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
-- http://arselectronicachile.blogspot.com http://comunicacionnativa.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/santorcuato
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, David wrote:
Like I said, Linkedin has been the victim of hacker attacks recently. I received a bogus email supposedly from Linkedin, asking me to click on some link in the email. I forwarded it to the admin at Linkedin, and he said it wasn't from Linkedln.
But were the links in the bogus email all going to linkedin.com, or were there any «fake» links ?
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
They were fake, they were directed towards some other web site. I didn't keep the email so I can't remember where, but they weren't goingto Linkedin. I didn't click on them, I just hovered the mouse over the link to see where it went, so I don't know what would happen if you clicked on one of them. But the email looked legitimate, someone less paranoid than myself could easily have clicked on it. I happen to have an account on Linkedin, but I didn't recognize the name in the email so I was a little suspicious.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, David wrote:
Like I said, Linkedin has been the victim of hacker attacks recently. I received a bogus email supposedly from Linkedin, asking me to click on some link in the email. I forwarded it to the admin at Linkedin, and he said it wasn't from Linkedln.
But were the links in the bogus email all going to linkedin.com, or were there any «fake» links ?
_______________________________________________________________________ | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
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