Linkedln invatition scam

I can't believe anyone in their right mind would ever give LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or anyone else their entire email list for any reason. But that default setting is absolutely not in the interest of the LinkedIn user. I'm going to dig into this one and let them have it with both barrels if necessary.

P.S: No, I didn't give them that opportunity to screw me.

That's for sure. I've got Linkedin invitations from people I didn't know. I'd email them, and they had all gotten loads of complaints from people they had not meant to contact. I blocked Linkedin on my computer, and clicked the remove link, and all that.

. Christ> LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses.

I suspect there is some kind of program, malware, javascript or some thing that searches your drive for email adress. I expect it's in the fine print, and people just click approve.

. Christ>>

I get numerous invitations to become "linked in" with people I nver heard about. Very annoying. And on top of this, those invitations lack the :reject" button.

Same problem here. I added Linedln to my spam junk mail filter. Seems to be working for now.

Best Regards Tom.

Almost every time you logon it asks for your email password. That's right. The password to your email account.

And that is why it wants it, to spam other people.

I am not a linkedln member. Never was, never will be.

What part of social networking did you fail to understand when you joined LinkedIn?

I never joined linkedln.

That is why any communication from linkedln is treated as spam junk mail.

Best Regards Tom.

Well ... since I host my own mail server, the password to my e-mail is the password to my account (which they could not access remotely anyway), and there is no chance that I would give them such information.

And -- there is also no chance that I can *see* that I would want an account on LinkedIn anyway. :-)

FaceBook wants your e-mail password too -- with the excuse that it allows them to identify your friends already on FaceBook. They don't get *that* either. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

First, it isn't from Linkedin it is from a person there.

Might be a friend of yours. Or someone that knows you and you didn't bother looking.

Strangers can't send to strangers.

Mart>

Nope. Facebook and other social media sites want that so they can bring all your friends and clients on-board! Scary thought, wot?

It's a B2B networking group, so I do.

Roger, over.