[redbergy]

My guess is that the notification in question was just letting you know that the person who imported your address is on LinkedIn and wants to connect?

It may look like an account notification but I'd think of it as more of an invitation.

It's not that they've connected your work email to the account with your personal email (publicly at least, privately I'm sure they keep that info). And it's not like they're sending any other types of sensitive/account/password reset information to that address assuming it's associated to the account connected to your personal email.

They're just trying to get you to join LinkedIn and connect with a coworker who gave them your work email address – assuming if you already have an account with a different email you'll login with that and connect with said coworker there.

[yabadabadoes]

Yes, the intended recipient sentence probably wouldn't be an email if LinkedIn was sending it to an existing account..

But I do think sending unsolicited emails in this fashion is illegal anyway in many places. I always found their attempt to get around this with a specific sender interesting, but I doubt it is universally legal.

[deckar01]

It was a connection request for completely unrelated 3rd party (outside my company).