Good to know, makes me consider closing my account myself. Linkedin always had a bit of a scammy feeling to it. Especially when it comes to recruiters' spam messages.
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#22It's not surprising. LinkedIn has been shady from the start. People shouldn't forget that they used to scrape your contacts from your email account through some sneaky user flow that got you to give them your email password.
This is the main reason I will never use LinkedIn. Context: https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae...
I always set my LinkedIn at the max privacy. I deleted my LinkedIn account over 8 months ago. I still get spam from recruiters in my email that uses my LinkedIn name which is different than my real name. LinkedIn definitely does not follow privacy settings.
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#23Using LinkedIn is never a good deed.
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#24Good to know, makes me consider closing my account myself. Linkedin always had a bit of a scammy feeling to it. Especially when it comes to recruiters' spam messages.
I got surprising results sending canned messages back asking for basically a 50% salary bump over my current. Never followed through but at least one person said "I can do that."
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#25Are you concerned now that illegal enterprise now knows your details and can possibly retaliate?
Are you easily doxable ?
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#27If that's true then: 1. Either LinkedIn is hacked by drug mafia 2. Or drug mafia has people inside LinkedIn But first thing - you should share you full report that you've sent to LinkedIn. You don't risk outing yourself - since mafia already knows your account.
Or four, as suggested by the top comment: Linkedin pro and correlating "who viewed all of my reported accounts recently?"
Or 5 parallel construction, which is just 2, but they blame 4 :)
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#29A placement agent called me recently about a job. At one point during the call she was obviously struggling to multitask and had to pause to say "I'm having trouble finding you on LinkedIn".
My response was "I'm not on LinkedIn."
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#30Of all the social networks, I never would've guessed that LinkedIn is the one people turn to when they want to sell drugs.
I dunno, there's a lot of recruiters. They must need something to help them through the day.