[120bits]

This is the 4th time I have heard this news in a month. I wasn't paying much attention till it happened to my girlfriend.

A person with a linkedin profile, that looks very legit saying they work for Nike at a senior level position reached to my gf for a job role. Well, at first she was excited and then she forwarded me their profile. It was really good presentation, however, few things were way off. Like the timelines on their profile were not accurate. The related experience was shady and more. As I dig deep I was convinced its a scam.

I reported the profile to Linkedin.

[kstrauser]

Ugh, LinkedIn. Someone created a profile saying they were in my company's Mumbai office. We're 100% US-based, which is very important in our specific market. It could be very bad for us if a large customer thought we were lying about having employees outside the US.

I finally had to resort to blatant Twitter shaming to get LinkedIn to address the problem.

[toss1]

I've been reading quite a few more of these lately.

It appears that LinkedIn has a problem not only with the tsunami of everyday recruiter spam flooding out their primary value proposition (real biz connections), but now criminal scams exploiting their platform.

Seems like one of those tipping point phenomena, that doesn't seem critical, until it is, and by then, it's too late and mostly all of the customers have decided they're done with it.

[jenthoven]

[This is Julia, the IC] In this case, LinkedIn had nothing to do with the scam. The thieves were using my real name and they didn’t create a fake profile for the supposed recruiter, so there’s unfortunately no phony profile to report.

[matsemann]

Someone used this technique to steal hundreds of millions in crypto tokens from a company recently, so looks to be a common and lucrative scam more people are trying. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001742