Tag: Spam
How to Spot a Fake LinkedIn Profile in 60 Seconds?
LinkedIn is a terrific platform to cultivate business connection. It is also rife with fraud and deceit. Fraudsters use as a social engineering tool...
Are You “Linkedin” or “Locked Out?”
by Dennis J. Pitocco, Featured Contributor An Open Letter To Linkedin Customer Support
Dear Customer Support:
AS A LOYAL MEMBER AND OWNER of over two dozen Groups...
Analyzing the “RecruiterSpam” Problem
There was a poorly-researched article about e-recruiters in The Atlantic magazine recently, which prominently featured me, without acknowledgment, and without any effort at journalistic...
7 Elements Of A Successful Social Business
Social software and tools have made cross-functional collaboration easier than ever before, but beware cultural and philosophical barriers. What is the common thread in the...
The State of Social Media Spam: Social Media Spam is on...
Social media spam (or “social spam”) is on the rise. During the first half of 2013, there has been a 355% growth of social...
Three Email Subject Line Secrets
Email marketing is an extremely competitive field. To garner success, it's imperative that you employ strategies that help you to stand out from the...
Rise Of The Anti-Recruiters
"Reverse-Job Boards" Like gnats at a picnic, recruiters are swarming around the miserable software developer. Irrelevant spam-offers are buzzing in your face, each aimed...
The Rise and Fall of a Spammer
Twenty-four-year-old Oleg Nikolaenko knew cold-weather life, having already purchased a fine house in a wealthy Moscow suburb. So the mop-haired young man wasn’t surprised...
Facebook Spam is a $200 Million Business
Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people to third-party scam sites are earning $200m every year, according to calculations by a...
Swindles and Spam, Lurking in Your Search Results
Most of our ventures onto the Web still begin with a search — a fact readily exploited by spammers and swindlers who rely on...