Comments on: If I Can Spot a Fake LinkedIn Profile, Why Can’t LinkedIn?

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:13:16 +0000

Twitter is extremely transparent, and the spammers are the ones sending the automatic direct messages and broadcasting their wares. On LinkedIn they are a little more sophisticated but are still there…

By: dianawei

dianawei — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:08:19 +0000

Yup, I guess I'm not on LinkedIn enough to tell the difference yet. As for Twitter, there are tonnnnnssss – many third parties hired by Amazon or others to post continuous sales and such. You're like an online sheriff if you can distinguish all this.

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:04:26 +0000

Wow! You would think that LinkedIn would help you in this case. It just goes to show how truly easy it is for someone to create a fake profile and infiltrate the system…

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:03:30 +0000

Indeed, there are LOTS of fake LinkedIn accounts. It's the same as with Twitter, but upon close look you can usually root out the fake ones from the real ones.

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:13:16 +0000

By: dianawei

dianawei — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:08:19 +0000

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:04:26 +0000

Wow! You would think that LinkedIn would help you in this case. It just goes to show how truly easy it is for someone to create a fake profile and infiltrate the system…

By: nealschaffer

nealschaffer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:03:30 +0000

Indeed, there are LOTS of fake LinkedIn accounts. It's the same as with Twitter, but upon close look you can usually root out the fake ones from the real ones.

By: NothingMan

NothingMan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:43:39 +0000

I've been wondering the same thing. My wife's previous employer created a fake profile and used it to find a reason to sue her. We even have testimony in court that the owner of the company created this fake profile to see what he could fine… LinkedIn has that testimony, and we've still heard nothing.

By: Sven Johnston

Sven Johnston — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:15:14 +0000

RT @NealSchaffer: If I Can Spot a Fake LinkedIn Profile, Why Can’t LinkedIn? #Spam on LI is serious. http://budurl.com/neal79 #LinkedIn