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

[Marie Sharp via OE]

Joyce's story is also my story.  I no longer use LinkedIn.
Marie Sharp

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Joyce Bonafield via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thanks for your heads up, John.  I received two invites to join your
> Linked In.
>
> Here's my story about LinkedIn, and why I no longer use it, though many
> people contact me to join it.  Recently, LinkedIn stole my entire contact
> list from my computer---about 1300 contacts-- and invited all of them to
> join my LinkedIn.  Obviously, this was also a hijacking by hackers.  For a
> couple of weeks, I would get about 50-60 people a day saying they wanted to
> join my LinkedIn.  I couldn't get LinkedIn to do anything about it or even
> acknowledge that there was a problem.  I just erase all LinkedIn messages
> now, and can't seem to erase my account either.   I don't know how many
> people have experienced this, but it is no longer a safe way to
> communicate.
>
> I think the way to go if this happens is to just withdraw your
> participation completely.
>
> ---Joyce Bonafield-Pierce
>
>
>
> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:59 PM, John P Cock via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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