Is anyone else receiving LinkedIn spam messages?

same situation with me. Never shared with anyone, but here lately, the random spam emails keep coming. Only the .mac and not the .me. Could be aol got hacked at some point. You can set up a .me for use with iChat, however too. I would be curious to know if anyone has seen this on their .me account.

csfromma wrote:

MadMacsO--you mentioned SpamCop? Is that a way to stop this from happening? Or, should I click on the messages (without opening anything) to move them from my junk folder into the trash folder?

I've been using SpamCop for years with mixed results. They seem to be pretty good at shutting down the amature spammers, but the commercial ones seem to go on for a long time, so I think they are making a dent in the problem, but hardly an panacea. It takes a few minutes to set up an account and figure out the best way to submit what they need depending on the e-mail client you use (they need to be able to read all of the header as well as the body of the message). Something new I've noticed is that they usually automatically send a copy to Apple as an insterested third party, so it would appear that Apple has taken a real interest in controlling it better.

I wonder if I just leave spam in my junk folder unopened will Apple see the spam and be able to stop it from their end?

I doubt seriously that they would as they already have plenty of samples submitted to them every day to work on.

First, Thanks MadMacsO for your previous reply. Appreciate it.

I've now just received an e-mail that says:

"Hey there--Just a heads up that Tina Murphy has approved your friend request on foursquare. View their profile (they have a link for me to click). Have fun--your friends at foursquare."

I've never heard of foursquare. I don't have a friend Tina M. and I didn't make a friend request. Is it just another part of this Linkedin spam and no big worry? (I didn't click the link just in case)

And, is it possible be a friend to someone you don't know because they approve a request you didn't make? Should I be concerned about my address book or my name/e-mail being compromised?

csfromma wrote:

I've now just received an e-mail that says:

"Hey there--Just a heads up that Tina Murphy has approved your friend request on foursquare. View their profile (they have a link for me to click). Have fun--your friends at foursquare."

I've seen one of these in the past 2-3 days. Looked very similar to the LinkedIn ones from before so I sent it right off to spamville. It was using a forged FourSquare address, if I recall correctly and clicking on it would have sent you someplace else.

Thanks for the post with the e-mail to report to Linkedin on spam mails. I've received several e-mails too from Linkedin, but have no account with them. I keep all my stuff private so I don't know how they received my e-mail to spam. Also, this is not only a mac e-mail issue, I've gotten these with my normal service provider e-mail. It has to be something else now. Hope they find the problem & fix it soon. I'm glad I stumbled on this forum chat while looking on line to see if there was an issue. Thank you again.

Not long ago Yahoo was hacked for 400K passwords, which led further to AOL, gMail, Sony, & Linkedin being hacked, probably not ending there...

http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/yahoo-voices-hacked/

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/06/08/youve-been-hacked-again-why-linkedins-bre ach-is-worse-tha/

I keep getting LindedIn e-mails to my gmail account. They go straight to my junk folder - always have. But when I get three a day, it's getting ridiculous. Clearing our spam once a week by emptying the folder removes about 15 - 20 LinkedIn mails each time. I never used to look through my spam folder, but sometimes legit people have mailed me and for some reason Google has sent it to Spam. Now when I check it just in case, it's mostly LinkedIn and Chinese medicine spam. *sigh*

Suzanne Thompstone wrote:

I keep getting LindedIn e-mails to my gmail account.

Are you sure you aren't seeing some of the same messages day after day (check the date)? Gmail behaves differently from most accounts in that it uses labels instead of different directories to display messages that appear to be in one or more "folders". Many users have found the only way to permanently delete a message is to find it in the "All Mail" folder and delete it from there. Some are only able to do that using WebMail from a browser instread of their client app (e.g. Apple Mail).

jc.p wrote:

What I don't understand is why Apple allows this to continue...why doesn't Apple do more to stop this spam?

Well, part of the problem is that, for the most part, these are legitimate e-mails originating at linkedin (although they do make it appear to come from the member that "invited" you. What happens is that a LinkedIn member authorizes LinkedIn to access their contact list and send out these invitations. The member may not realize they are doing this, but they do have to enter their e-mail password to activate it.

It is SO OBVIOUS....and I get spam ONLY from my apple mail...NEVER from Gmail....

And most of my spam comes to the aol account I have not used in probably 20 years, next would be Gmail and then my dot mac account, but the latter is where see these LinkedIn messages, many of which are now coming from e-mail lists I subscribe to.

swest47 wrote:

In the last week I have been getting an inordinate amount of spam coming from mac.com. Has Apple relinquished that address?

Most probably it's not actually coming from mac.com (which Apple still owns) as most spam has forged "From:" headers. You need to submit ths spam to someone like SpamCop to figure out where it actually originates.

Thanks, I kinda figured they were spoofing the headers somehow. Many of the messages start with an _

I've used Mac Mail since the first OSX and the spam filter isn't that robust. Recently, I installed SpamSieve to work with Mail. It cut my spam by 98%. Then a few day ago all this mac.com spam starting getting through the sieve. I kinda figure it has something to do with the fact I have a .me account so it's seeing .mac as friendly.

The sieve is in training so eventually it will take care of it.

Again, thanks!

Lately I too have been having a similar issue with spam being directed to my full name at my .mac email address. Some originate from a .mac address but others don't. I too use Mac Mail and I agree the filtering is poor. I will try Spam Sieve and Spam Cop. Thanks.

I am a member of Linked In and have not received those emails, so I am not sure how they are generated. I did receive a normal update yesterday, but no spam.

I have two .mac addresses and as I said above, am a member of LnkedIn, but have not received any spam, so I doubt it's Apple's fault.