90 Minds Community

From time to time you may receive connection requests from LinkedIn profiles that also claim affiliation with 90 Minds.



If you receive them, please take a minute to also report them to LinkedIn instead of just ignoring. That way we can prevent them from contacting other users.




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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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When I click Report/Block I select 

Report - and as the reason "I think this person does not represent a real individual"

Please do not accept the connection or it begins to build credibility for whatever scam the account is trying to pull.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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I just got the same request from LI. Normally, I would have just deleted the e-mail and moved on but I took your advice and reported it.

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John Shaver
Aries Technology Group, LLC
Knoxville TN
(865) 389-3600
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-10-2019 10:57
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Please report these fake LinkedIn profiles as you see them

When I click Report/Block I select 

Report - and as the reason "I think this person does not represent a real individual"

Please do not accept the connection or it begins to build credibility for whatever scam the account is trying to pull.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Yup, and it appears he's already gone.

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- Brett
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-10-2019 11:02
From: John Shaver
Subject: Please report these fake LinkedIn profiles as you see them

I just got the same request from LI. Normally, I would have just deleted the e-mail and moved on but I took your advice and reported it.

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John Shaver
Aries Technology Group, LLC
Knoxville TN
(865) 389-3600
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-10-2019 10:57
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Please report these fake LinkedIn profiles as you see them

When I click Report/Block I select 

Report - and as the reason "I think this person does not represent a real individual"

Please do not accept the connection or it begins to build credibility for whatever scam the account is trying to pull.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990

I'm not sure what the scam is but it appears to start with creating a fake profile and working to build up the reputation by connecting to other valid profiles with the same affiliation.

It's weird they use an overseas location because I rarely accept any connection from overseas since nearly 100% are followed by an email or message about how they want to be an outsource IT/Developer for $5/hour.

I also never accept any connection from the so-called business marketers. I must get 12 a week from people who try to sign me up for a marketing service of some sort. Probably 1/2 the profiles are fake but I feel bad for the other half because it seems as if they took some quick course that told them the way to grows their business was to spam anyone who will accept a LinkedIn request.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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Perhaps need to update the 90 Minds Consulting group LinkedIn to 'on approval' which is what I thought was the setting.

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Moira Goggin
Executive Director
90 Minds, Inc.
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-10-2019 13:12
From: Wayne Schulz
Subject: Please report these fake LinkedIn profiles as you see them

I'm not sure what the scam is but it appears to start with creating a fake profile and working to build up the reputation by connecting to other valid profiles with the same affiliation.

It's weird they use an overseas location because I rarely accept any connection from overseas since nearly 100% are followed by an email or message about how they want to be an outsource IT/Developer for $5/hour.

I also never accept any connection from the so-called business marketers. I must get 12 a week from people who try to sign me up for a marketing service of some sort. Probably 1/2 the profiles are fake but I feel bad for the other half because it seems as if they took some quick course that told them the way to grows their business was to spam anyone who will accept a LinkedIn request.

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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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