[TYPE_FASTER]

Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaiVApKfmc - "Avoid restrictions and blocks using the fastest and most stable proxy network"...they're pretty upfront with this, aren't they?

Oh, and they will sell you the datasets they've already scraped using mobile devices: https://brightdata.com/lp/web-data/datasets

This actually explains a phishing attack where I received a text from somebody purporting to be a co-worker asking for an Apple gift card. The name was indeed an employee from a different part of the large company I worked for at the time, but LinkedIn was the only possible link I could figure out that was at least somewhat publicly available information.

This should probably be required in all CS curriculum: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-tll-008-social-and-ethical-r...

[nerdponx]

It should be illegal, but this stuff is propping up the appearance of a healthy economy so nobody will touch it.

[VladVladikoff]

That scam definitely uses linked in as the source. We get a lot of those BEC emails and it’s always the people who are on LinkedIn. Also keep in mind LinkedIn has had big database leaks in the past, you might not even need to scrape them, just download a huge database from a leaks site.