New linkedin ’status’ feature now used for donation spam
March 1st, 2008 by Aviram, Filed under: Commentary, Spam, Culture
My wife has just received this email via linkedin:
Subject: Equity Needed
[name deleted] has sent you a message.
Date: 3/01/2008
Subject: Equity Needed
May I kindly accept a donation of $100 on your behalf? [url to donation page]Thank you for understanding.
Visiting the donation page brings up the following explanation:
“With the new status update feature on LinkedIn I thought we should have some fun and in the process help me make my first million to jump start my new companies. I would like you to set your status on LinkedIn to “wants you to help [me] make [my] 1st million via LinkedIn: [url]””
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