[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] My sad story about LINKEDIN

[Susan Fertig via Dialogue]

John, this probably won't go the others on the list, because I haven't notified anyone to change my email address, but I wanted to tell you that one of the I.T. techs who works for my son told me that it is a result of allowing your service access to your contact list in order to "find" connections for you, and that is what makes you vulnerable to this kind of scam. I would check on your settings and make sure with LinkedIn or Facebook or anything else you have not given permission to access your contact list.

Susan

Susan Fertig-Dykes
(personal email account)

Please note: my personal email address has changed. Please change your contact information for me to reflect the new address, which is SFERTIG at BLUESKYTECH.US<mailto:SFERTIG at BLUESKYTECH.US>.

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought .  Isaiah 58:11


STOP E-MAIL ADDRESS HARVESTING
Protect your family and friends
Please use "BCC" when sending to multiple addresses!
Please delete E-Mail addresses when forwarding!
Please be kind and remove my email address when you forward.
NOTE:
I won't be offended if you ask me to remove you from my emails.


From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of John P Cock via OE
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 9:00 PM
To: dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net; oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Subject: [Oe List ...] My sad story about LINKEDIN

I got HACKED big time a week ago by international pros, and some of you on my established LinkedIn page have emailed me this week asking me to "accept" you into my LinkedIn account that I thought I had canceled. Obviously that account still lives-because LinkedIn says it does-and stupid me thought I had deleted it.

But the professional hackers' PASSWORD owns it now, doing whatever they are doing with my old LinkedIn page/account, like asking the likes of you to join the "John Cock" page. [You can tell by their broken English they are not I.]

Been trying to get LinkedIn to settle all this, but they are telling me I still have the account-only problem is I can't get into it and LinkedIn keep telling me to just type in my password, which is no longer the page's password-and a small wave of colleagues and friends keep e-mailing me asking to be on my LinkedIn page. What a messy mess this is. Sure you didn't want to hear it all.

Nevertheless, I am happy to see you on Google, Google+, Facebook, Twitter (and especially MailChimp at 7am each day, US Eastern Time).

As always, all is strangely, yet absolutely GOOD! (That's all I wanted to say, really.)

John

And if anyone (like wizard Tim) wants to help me, feel free.
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