Ask HN: Angel List and fake profiles / investors

[tremt]

Hey guys,

I recently added my startup on Angel List and I am getting pitches from some investors, which is all good.

However, those investors do not look very real. All of them (that contacted me so far), had a free email account (gmail, gmx or yahoo) and had some companies in their linkedin profiles / twitter profiles that do not look real. In a few of them it looks like a fake identity was created only to be used on Angel List.

Have you guys noticed it before?

Am I being too paranoid?

[MikeHo]

How many followers do these said investors have on Twitter or connections in their linkedin profiles?

You should be able to find a decent amount of hits by simply googling their name and their respected companies.

[tremt]

We did and they have few followers, few connections on them...

Should I post names here for people to take a look? I also noticed that thet were doing a bunch of introductions there.

[naval]

Why don't you email me instead Tremt, and I will investigate. No point in launching a public witchhunt :-) I'm at naval at angel dot co.

[simonk]

[e-mail] if there are fake profiles, the team at angelist will want to know