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@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.  _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

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@BLUESKYTECH.US<mailto:SFERTIG@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@lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of John P Cock via OE Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 9:00 PM To: dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net; oe@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.