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points by xutopia 4 days ago | 0 comments

I was #opentowork on LinkedIn and got approached multiple times with fake companies and interviews. LinkedIn is not doing enough to combat this.

I even create a 1 man company for my consulting services and I receive ads about how people at my company saved me a spot on an online game.

LinkedIn is partially responsible for their neglect here.

[–] pants2 3 days ago

Agreed, LinkedIn makes it very easy to spoof your credentials. There was a fake profile posing as a recruiter from my company trying to phish people for a long time, we reported it 100x and nothing happened. Finally ran into a guy at a party who worked for LinkedIn and convinced him to flag it internally, lol

[–] phendrenad2 3 days ago

LinkedIn is a wasteland. Guarantee Microsoft leadership forgets it exists or that they own it. The sooner we stop giving it misplaced respect the sooner it can be replaced by something better.

[–] ronsor 3 days ago

LinkedIn is basically a tumor on Microsoft acting independently.

[–] barbariangrunge 3 days ago

What do you all do to detect if a recruiter or company reaching out to you is real or not? So much is remote now, and somebody could ai-generate a fake company and linkedin presence to make their scams more effective