Most commonly, someone with whom you have exchanged email has a LinkedIn
account and they unwittingly gave LinkedIn permission to send
"connection requests" to everyone in their address book. Often the
person whose name appears doesn't even know LinkedIn is sending them out.
But it will only stop if that person does become aware of it and takes
the necessary action to put a stop to it.
On 1/21/2016 2:34 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Hell, I've gotten what were at first glance Linkedin requests, from
myself! I don't even have a Linkedin account. So I assumed it was some
sort of phishing expedition.
On 1/21/2016 2:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
I don’t know if I’ve been linked to any of those connection
requests, but I could have been. LinkedIn is somewhat devious
in the way they suggest connections.
Not surprising. I haven't let LinkedIn know about the existence of my
Facebook account or any webmail account. And I use an email client
that doesn't let LinkedIn (or anything else) scavenge its address
book.
My own interesting experience with LinkedIn came from receiving emails
(sent to the address I registered fir my LinkedIn account) requesting
that I connect with someone... but when I logged into LinkedIn I found
no such request there. Seems like obvious spam with a forged address,
right? Nope. I checked the email headers for the suspect messages and
found the emails came from the official LinkedIn servers. I never got
a satisfactory answer (or indeed, any reply at all) from LinkedIn and
found several other users experiencing the same issue with equal
puzzlement. After about a year it stopped so I think it was a glitch
in their system.
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