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Post by katlady on Jun 18, 2016 3:26:18 GMT
I do not have a Linkedin account. I occasionally get emails to my personal email account from Linkedin saying that friends want to connect with me.
Do I have a Linkedin account that I don't remember/know about? How am I getting these emails? Some come from work friends that do not have my personal email address.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jun 18, 2016 3:46:57 GMT
It's spam. Just delete it.
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Post by katlady on Jun 18, 2016 3:55:37 GMT
It's spam. Just delete it. OK. Thanks. I just never thought it was spam because the person's name and picture sending me the invite are people I know (but they don't have my personal email address). |
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jun 18, 2016 4:10:56 GMT
It's spam. Just delete it. OK. Thanks. I just never thought it was spam because the person's name and picture sending me the invite are people I know (but they don't have my personal email address). Hm. Well, I guess I'll clarify that I've always assumed them to be spam because I get them from time to time and I KNOW I don't have a LinkedIn account. I've never opened them to see what's inside. Are they people you otherwise know on, say, Facebook? With all the tracking and other data mining that goes on in cyberspace, it wouldn't surprise me if LinkedIn pays Facebook to be able to know who your FB friends are so it can try to get you to hook up on LinkedIn. I've never been to the LinkedIn site, but if you want to investigate whether you might have an account you forgot about, I wonder if you can go there and search for yourself without having to put any other info in. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 18, 2016 4:18:31 GMT
I get LinkedIn requests from colleagues and even customers. I rang a customer the first time it happened and asked if he'd sent me a LinkedIn request but he hadn't. It must just somehow go through the person's email contacts and send out random requests to people in their contacts list.
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Post by katlady on Jun 18, 2016 4:25:00 GMT
Thanks Eddie-n-Harley and AussieMeg ! I use the preview pane on my emails so I can see what is in them without opening them. I am going to assume that somehow they (Linkedin and FB) are mining my friend's contact list and not worry that I have a random account on the site. |
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Post by dancingwithpaper on Jun 18, 2016 4:29:07 GMT
People who are on linkedin and have your e-mail address in their contacts (so basically anyone you've ever e-mailed with) can send you a linkedin request. Linkedin encourages you to do this so you'll have more connections and such, and it seems pretty innocuous so I think people send them out en masse to their contacts thinking no one's gonna get upset about an e-mail. You don't have an account unless you've signed up for one, it's just that people you "know" online who have accounts can send you requests.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2016 4:41:42 GMT
People who are on linkedin and have your e-mail address in their contacts (so basically anyone you've ever e-mailed with) can send you a linkedin request. Linkedin encourages you to do this so you'll have more connections and such, and it seems pretty innocuous so I think people send them out en masse to their contacts thinking no one's gonna get upset about an e-mail. You don't have an account unless you've signed up for one, it's just that people you "know" online who have accounts can send you requests. They don't even have to send the request. Linkedn will do it without their knowledge. It just takes one person who knows your personal email account to start a whole chain of linkedn requests from mutual people who show up in their email and your email or facebook |
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Post by katlady on Jun 18, 2016 4:44:26 GMT
Yeah, today's request came from a friend on FB. We have never emailed each other. So somehow, somewhere, there is some kind of interconnecting going on.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2016 4:48:19 GMT
Yeah, today's request came from a friend on FB. We have never emailed each other. So somehow, somewhere, there is some kind of interconnecting going on. Is your facebook account set up on your personal email? If so, that is the connection. The datamining in linkedn can access your email or your email was sold by facebook. |
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Post by katlady on Jun 18, 2016 4:50:58 GMT
Yeah, today's request came from a friend on FB. We have never emailed each other. So somehow, somewhere, there is some kind of interconnecting going on. Is your facebook account set up on your personal email? If so, that is the connection. The datamining in linkedn can access your email or your email was sold by facebook. Yup! Thanks for helping to clear up this mystery for me! |
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