Spam Gallery–LinkedIn Notification

The Spam Gallery is a series of posts that give examples of spam messages, explaining telltales signs of how they are spam.

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Being a member of Linkedin, this one made me pause.  I don’t recognize the name, so my assumption is that it is a tech recruiter, which I wouldn’t really want to deal with anyway.  Everything looks pretty legit about this message except for the links.  If you mouse over them, they show that they will redirect you to a site that is not LinkedIn.  All three of the links in the message go to the same address.  The address in this particular case had the word “terrorize” in it.  Probably a good indication of the anticipated result.

Always check the address of the links in a message before clicking them.  They should have the company name in them.