Author of "LinkedIn for Personal Branding"| LinkedIn Top Voice | TEDx and Keynote Speaker | LinkedIn Rebranding | B2B Social Selling l My Mantra: "Be a Friend First" l Let’s Amplify Your Brand and Event
Are you concerned about fake profiles on LinkedIn? Well, LinkedIn is concerned and is helping us to take action. We now have this new feature called "About this Profile," so I hope you will check it out. Let me know what YOU think about the feature. Do you have it yet? Will you use it to check out suspicious folks? In this PDF you will see what MINE looks like. I would love ❤️ to see yours too! Maybe you will take a quick screenshot and add it as a comment? Let's be sure to report bad actors on LinkedIn too. #linkedin #features #SandraLong Sandra Long Post Road Consulting: LinkedIn and Social Selling Training
Great information, Sandra Long. I had no idea!
I will definitely be using it to check out profiles (and reports fakes!). Here's mine
Really valuable tool, Sandra — thank you for sharing! I get around 3-5 bogus invites a day, so this will aid in verifying legitimacy.
Interesting! I checked a few folks that I felt were questionable and they had very new profiles, limited connections and nothing verified. I could see this being useful. (although it may also mean I have a good natural instinct about this and this process is simply validation) Thanks for sharing, Sandra!
Here's mine. I'm legit! Just got an invite this morning from someone with a big title and thought, no, this isn't right. Checked his profile and he had no connections. Immediately blocked. I often wonder what happens when you decline a LinkedIn invite and the screen then asks: Do you know this person? Every time I say no - but wonder if the LI team is monitoring this in any way to help reduce it. Interesting to see what others think.
Great reminder and thank you.
LinkedIn® courses for professionals and companies. LinkedIn® training, Lead Generation, Social Selling, Sales Navigator. LinkedIn® works if you know how to use it.
2yHello Sandra Long the verification of company emails is unfortunately available for few companies. We hope that LinkedIn is not very slow as usual in extending this possibility to all companies. Also there is always the big problem of profiles associated with accounts without any verification. Instead, you should only make it possible to add a company to your Profile experiences if you have a verified company email.