Dear LinkedIn Scammers: What 'be' your current job title?
At the point where several LinkedIn users are suddenly celebrating reaching a milestone connection of 1000, 10,000 and 20,000 professionals, several others are feeding on the ignorance of others in plotting executive fraud with fake LinkedIn profiles.
There are two kind of users on LinkedIn today, the genuine users and the fake user accounts; lets delve into what this users are and how they affect the psycho-social well being of every LinkedIn user.
Genuine LinkedIn User: we love to 'think' and use technology productively.
Fake User Accounts: they disrupt socio-professional balance and weaponizes the beauty of technology.
On platforms like LinkedIn, the professional exchange of thoughts and ideas inspire genuine users to invest a bit of their attention span in return for professional networking, but with the fake user accounts (scammers), professional courtesy now gravitates toward fake job titles, fake education history, fake displayed location and other flurry of fake profile update.
Dear LinkedIn scammer, how dare you think we would barter our genuineness for your fraudulent banter,
If LinkedIn messages were letters, yours will stink like graffiti to my Alma mater,
Please be informed as follow,
i, This community called LinkedIn means business, and we intend to keep it as such
ii, Desist on the path that leads to national embarrassments, and embrace our psycho-social independence
iii, Visit history, go back to school, go through school and allow the school go through you
Dear LinkedIn platform, we know the data of unemployed LinkedIn user is high at the moment and the population of opportunists have increased, also we are aware of the need to increase your premium user base in the middle of a pandemic; nevertheless can you please improve the user-friendliness of your platform, stop telling us "its not you, its us" when your web pages crash, and provide appropriate social security tools for the protection of your users in compliance with local and global data governance policies.
Pivotal to the ease of doing business is a community based platform like LinkedIn, which serves the purpose of bridging geographical boundaries and harnessing a communal instinct of professionalism in delivery of products and services; According to David R. Malpass, President at World Bank Group, The Doing Business 2020 study shows that developing economies are catching up with developed economies in ease of doing business. Still, the gap remains wide. An entrepreneur in a low-income economy typically spends around 50 percent of the country’s per-capita income to launch a company, compared with just 4.2 percent for an entrepreneur in a high income economy.
The contributory effect of LinkedIn scammers to the disheartening state of doing business in a Covid-19 era poses a major set back to forward thinking professionals that forms the bulk of genuine users on LinkedIn.
Lets resist fake profiles on LinkedIn, and insist on keeping a network of serious minded professionals only.
- M/D @ X-Front Trader Ltd, NGN
3 年Nice one, i totally agree...i noted that such scammers try to use LinkedIn like Facebook. This is the reason i am not active on Whatsapp & Facebook. Microsoft Azure Cloud has a set of products aimed at maximizing user's data security and LinkedIn is a member of the Microsoft Family.
The population of scammers on Linkedin seems on the increase, especially since Covid-19. My account was almost hacked and accessed some four weeks back. I was sent a link to change the password and improve security login by Linkedin. Perhaps the impact of Covid-19 has caused scammers to focus more on online victims due to the shutdown of many offline businesses. What scammers don't realize coming to LinkedIn is that, here, is a congregation of mostly inteligent people who can see through their fake profile and outrageous accomplishments and unverifiable details. (1) Some use pictures and names that are from two different people. I chuckle when I receive a connection request from such scammers (2) Some will post a website registered 20 days ago for just 365 days, in a country where they do not have a physical business presence or verifiable contact address; (3) Some scammers will post a big company profile that can't be verified with the claimed country of operation business registration regulator or have no RC number! (4) Be careful before you click on links! Some will send you harmful link and portal to enter your details to steal your information for face two scamming which may be offline ...and on and on like that.