LinkedIn is a terrific platform to cultivate business connection. It is also rife with fraud and deceit. Fraudsters use as a social engineering tool which allow them to connect to professionals, trying to lure them to disclose their real contact details (work email is the best) and then use this email address to send spam or worse deliver Malware.
Always check the profile before accepting an invitation, and do so through the LinkedIn massage mechanism and not through email (fake invitation emails can cause much more harm than fake profiles – see our previous post).
via How to Spot a Fake LinkedIn Profile in 60 Seconds? | SenseCy Blog.