<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15003"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15002">Thanks for your heads up, John. I received two invites to join your Linked In.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15004"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15006"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15005">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. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15006"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15006">I think the way to go if this happens is to just withdraw your participation completely.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15006"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441917882136_15006">---Joyce Bonafield-Pierce</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:59 PM, John P Cock via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2218928712"><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.]</div><div><br></div><div>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 <u>my</u> LinkedIn page. What a messy mess this is. Sure you didn’t want to hear it all.</div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, I am happy to see you on Google, Google+, Facebook, Twitter (and especially MailChimp at 7am each day, US Eastern Time).</div><div><br></div><div>As always, all is strangely, yet absolutely GOOD! (That’s all I wanted to say, really.)</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div>And if anyone (like wizard Tim) wants to help me, feel free. </div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dialogue mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" href="mailto:Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>