LinkedIn is renowned as the #1 social network for professionals.
Unlike, say, Facebook, professional connections are established to interconnect profiles of individuals in their respective markets.
There are plenty of domain industry professionals on LinkedIn, and making it into the 500+ “Club” is not easy, because every connection needs to be validated by the recipient of the invitation to connect.
There is, however, an apparently easier method to get a high number of connections on LinkedIn, and it’s illustrated in this fake profile we discovered.
The recipe involves getting the photo of an attractive female – preferably, a porn star as in this case – adding some cheesy work credentials (Yahoo XML feed?) and start befriending others.
Apparently, both Monte Cahn and Richard Lau were duped by this fake LinkedIn profile, along with at least 50 others in the domain industry.
