Is anyone else receiving LinkedIn spam messages?

I've just had some crap purporting to be from YouTube with a similar feel to it on the same e-mail address....

well, I continue to see likendIN and youtube emails. Has anyone been able to determine where these are actually coming from? Someone has been able to find out "mac.com" emails...

powerbook1701 wrote:

well, I continue to see likendIN and youtube emails. Has anyone been able to determine where these are actually coming from?

Yes, when you submit them to SpamCop it tells you, but I haven't seen one in awhile and don't recall where it said.

Someone has been able to find out "mac.com" emails...

What makes you think it's limited to mac.com? If you have ever used an email address to send anything to anybody, it will be harvested, eventually. I've received spam at addresses I've never used, so those were obviously an inside or hack job. I know for sure that my AOL address was sold way back when, and they caught the guy.

LMST wrote:

I just received my first youtube spam. The spam from LinkedIn has stopped, though....

I guess I don't understand what the fuss is about. These are just like all the other spam messages I get except for the graphics and that they are faking LinkedIn and YouTube addresses. All they do is redirect you to a pharmacy site like many others have.

I, too, am curious if this is only happening to "mac.com" addresses. If so, why us? How did they get our email addresses? Does Apple know or care?

Again I'm not sure why we think it's limited to mac.com and I would have to guess they got our addresses the same way all the other spammers do.

I think Apple cares about some of this. They told me when I first got my account to send the spam so they could improve their filters, so I still send them off to them as well as to the FTC, then I submit them to SpamCop.

I've noticed in the past few weeks that Apple has apparently signed on with SpamCop to recieve courtesy copies of spam that is sent through them as an intermediate mail handler, so I have to guess they must have some interest. I also tried to send them to LinkedIn, but apparently they don't care as it bounced and I couldn't locate a better address. They only seem to be interested in spam received by members from other users.

MadMacs0 wrote:

They only seem to be interested in spam received by members from other users.

I can understand this. They aren't responsible of spams from other people who are masqueraded as them.

Imagine if someone was masqueraded as you and sent spam to other people with your address. What could you even do?

I have a mac account. I use iCloud.

Recently I created a LinkedIn account on a PC while in a different country using my companies e-mail adres. On this I have 3 connections. Almost a day later LinkedIn send me a mail on my private mac account, with suggestions of people I should know (10). All of them are my personal friends from whom I have in my adressbook. On my settings by LinkedIn everything is 'closed'.

How is this possible?

I have a mac account. I use iCloud.

Recently I created a LinkedIn account on a PC while in a different country using my companies e-mail adres. On this I have 3 connections. Almost a day later LinkedIn send me a mail on my private mac account, with suggestions of people I should know (10). All of them are my personal friends from whom I have in my adressbook. On my settings by LinkedIn everything is 'closed'.

How is this possible?

deek67 wrote:

Recently I created a LinkedIn account on a PC while in a different country using my companies e-mail adres. On this I have 3 connections. Almost a day later LinkedIn send me a mail on my private mac account, with suggestions of people I should know (10). All of them are my personal friends from whom I have in my adressbook. On my settings by LinkedIn everything is 'closed'.

How is this possible?

The way this usually happens is that LinkedIn (as well as FaceBook, etc.) will suggest that you need to search for friends you already know and ask for your e-mail password (promising not to store it or send anything directly to your friends) and use it to harvest either your address book or check the send addresses of everything in your send folder, then let you know which of those folks are registered with LinkedIn. I know some people who aren't paying close enough attention think they are logging into LinkedIn when asked for their password and if they used the same one as their e-mail password, that's how it happens. Others actually do want a quick way to find out who else is registered (they even tell you how many of your current contacts have used that technique).

But the real mystery is how they got your mac account address. I can't even guess at that.

@deek67,

Do you by any chance have an iOS device that you downloaded the LinkedIn app to?

Today's news is full of the apparent fact that Apple has not been enforcing their rule that apps cannot access you Contacts list without your permission. No indication on what apps are in violation. Could that be the connection?

Now I am seeing "habbo hotel" person has sent you a message...

Hi, Yes I've had 2 in the last week. I just marked them "junk" and deleted them!

Yeah the Habbo Hotel stuff has been ramping up today. I don't share my mac.com addy with anyone, however I do use it to use iChat, through the AOL client.. so I wonder if that is the "leak". Spammers and Malware authors need to be taken out into the street and flogged.

Hi all,

I just started getting these "Habbo Hotel" messages yesterday. Got around 5 so far, and more today. I've never visited that site but these emails are addressed to my actually Mobile me email address as well as one of my aliases. I don't use iChat. Do I need to worry about my accounts? What is best way to handle these? Thanks, Bg