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Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 08, 2014, 02:34 AM:

Are you, like me, continuing to receive invitations via email from people who are completely unknown to you to join them on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is a business-orientated social networking with more than 259 million members worldwide, in the UK it has 14 million users.

What puzzles me is how these unknown people have my email address. I did some research via the Internet and have discovered that various LinkedIn members themselves are receiving replies from people they do not know.

It appears that LinkedIn management are taking advantage of knowing email addresses taken from their members' contacts and they are literally trying to "drum up new members".

As the emails arrive I just delete them, but the sender doesn't give up quickly but continually I receive reminders "xxxx is still waiting to hear from you".

I don't want to contact LinkedIn as this will certainly provide confirmation of my email address. I suppose it is just something to live with.

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on July 08, 2014, 04:37 AM:

I actually joined Linkedin, mainly after doing a A4E self employment course. I must admit I can't see the point of it. It never has created any work for me.

Facebook I signed-up too, but they seem to even want your inside leg measurement. Very rarely use this one. Although it does have one use we can see my wife's family over in Thailand when they put photo's on. It's also good to see our rubber trees growing ever few months.

I get the same messages as you Maurice, from both of them. I don't trust them with my personal information.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 08, 2014, 06:19 AM:

David
Any ideas how I can stop the emails?

Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on July 08, 2014, 06:39 AM:

Has happened to me too; unsubscribe maybe?

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 08, 2014, 07:45 AM:

I can't unsubscribe as I am not a member, just a person who LinkedIn seem to want as a member!

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on July 08, 2014, 08:07 AM:

Set your email software/server to consider the address it's coming from as spam.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on July 08, 2014, 08:52 AM:

Maurice

I got news for you...they all ready have your email. Just do as Jean suggests but you can also block the domain. Right click on email address and you will see options.

PatD

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on July 08, 2014, 09:57 AM:

Maurice. Check to see if they really are from Linkedin. I keep getting the from BT Internet telling me my account needs verifying, also the same from banks.

When you hover over the links which might say (www.btinternet.com) but when you put your mouse over the link it could say (www.wehaveyourlogin.com) What I mean is it takes you to rip off site.

I use Thunderbird for my e-mail this lets you tag messages as spam (blame Monty Python) it takes a while, but it does work.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 08, 2014, 10:28 AM:

Gentlemen
Many thanks for your kind suggestions, I never click on anything which I might consider suspect.
Next time one of these arrives I will re-direct it to my spam store, at least this should stop my iPhone receiving them.

Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on July 08, 2014, 06:43 PM:

...good suggestion Jean-Marc...

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on July 09, 2014, 07:51 PM:

I've received many of those emails even though my "friends" didn't really intend to invite me.

In the fine print of the email is a link to ask to no longer received them. It actually works. Or, for me it did.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on July 09, 2014, 10:56 PM:

What JM's suggestion can be tried. But some unwanted emails are changing their address every time. So it will not work.

The other solution is to filter by "word" (remember Derann's filter to "always contain DFS on subject"?). But for this time you ask server to filter any email contains "Linkedin".

The bad side is your friend email has this word will be also filtered out.

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on July 10, 2014, 12:56 AM:

Seriously, guys, LinkedIn is a reputable company and you can ask them to unsubscribe and they'll actually do it. That's one significant difference between "knowns" and spammers.

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