How is upwork not liable for this? I imagine there is a cachet that comes with having profile on upwork that the people committing felony identity theft rely upon.
Tell HN: Upwork has an impersonation problem
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#22I'm looking for advice on a similar issue. Somebody is impersonating me on dating sites and blackmailing women. They convince their victims to send nude photos, and then they threaten to send the photos to their families. The scammer (or scammers) use photos of me that used to be publicly available on social media. They also use my real name, presumably so that the victims see a legitimate LinkedIn profile when they…
Sorry to hear about that problem. Maybe you could put a warning about the impersonator on your LinkedIn bio.
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#23I deleted my LinkedIn, it’s a source of information that the general public doesn’t need to see. I don’t want to broadcast my employment history to the world. I think the value of LinkedIn is diminishing and will continue to decline.
> I think the value of LinkedIn is diminishing and will continue to decline. I don't see how that would be the case, it's the de-facto rolodex for your work-circle and I don't think I know any alternative that is getting popular.
I think it's value is you are able to be found be those looking to employ you. If you don't want to be offered employment, I don't see a point in having a LinkedIn - a resume does just fine when you are looking.
But this goes towards the GPs post, it is public information. I also deleted my LinkedIn awhile ago. In my opinion a company or person should only be given my CV when I offer it to them.
In terms of a work-circle rolodex, this is odd to me. If I want to keep in contact with the person in the future I will have their personal contact info and keep in touch, otherwise not.
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#24I've been on the other side of this, hiring fake people. I'm actually going to stop using Upwork after almost 10 years. It's such a cesspool of fraud now that I can't figure out how to find the honest people.
As an example, I recently hired someone who showed his face on video and had great communication skills. Next time we did a call, he had no video and sounded totally different. It turned out to be a subcontractor impersonating him.
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#25I deleted my LinkedIn, it’s a source of information that the general public doesn’t need to see. I don’t want to broadcast my employment history to the world. I think the value of LinkedIn is diminishing and will continue to decline.
It’s a trade-off for me. There is value in being visible to recruiters, but I’m not too comfortable with so much of my personal information being available for easy perusal.
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#26I'm looking for advice on a similar issue. Somebody is impersonating me on dating sites and blackmailing women. They convince their victims to send nude photos, and then they threaten to send the photos to their families. The scammer (or scammers) use photos of me that used to be publicly available on social media. They also use my real name, presumably so that the victims see a legitimate LinkedIn profile when they…
I would be thinking very hard about all the ways I could prove, definitively, that I could not be the person doing this to others.
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#27What’s the best course of action for you/the person being impersonated, if the platform doesn’t fix the (systemic) problem? Put up a big notice on LinkedIn declaring that you are not on these platforms?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think the value of LinkedIn is diminishing and will continue to decline. I don't see how that would be the case, it's the de-facto rolodex for your work-circle and I don't think I know any alternative that is getting popular.
I think it's value is you are able to be found be those looking to employ you. If you don't want to be offered employment, I don't see a point in having a LinkedIn - a resume does just fine when you are looking. But this goes towards the GPs post, it is public information. I also deleted my LinkedIn awhile ago. In my opinion a company or person should only be given my CV when I offer it to them. In terms of a work-ci…
Consider that not all of us mind sharing their CVs to the world. The potential for harm is quite low, and there are meaningful upsides.
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#29I remember trying to hire an iOS developer on Upwork, and got an American developer to bid on the project that seemed too good to be true. Turned out he was, and it was a fake profile. Figured it out only after agreeing on payment and about to start work, before realizing something was off. Contacted Upwork and they took profile down.
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