No but thanks for the heads up.
Add him to your junk list and forget him. If your gut tells you its a scam then its a scam.
BTW, anything from linkedin is duplicated if you go to the site. So if its real you can confirm it there.
LinkedIn is a business social media.
Google him. Suspicious.
Linked In is obviously involved in a massive drive to become a Facebook-sized phenomenon. I’m getting tons of emails supposedly from acquaintances wanting me to join their Linked In circle. I just dump ‘em. Linked In appears to be data mining using Facebook and other social sites to determine who knows who.
If you are not a member of LinkedIn, then they will not be sending you emails. If you look at the email headers, you will almost certainly see that this email is not really from LinkedIn.
If you don’t have a LinkedIn account, consider it a scam or virus “opportunity.”
He’s a cousin to a Mr. Richard Fedder from Fort Lee, NJ.
Linkedin is one of those sites that email addresses are ‘mines’ from.
You might try ‘bouncing’ the email back to the sender. If they are legit, they may get the message. If the email is trying to sell you something, place it in the ‘spam’ filter your ISP provides.
I received a LinkedIn request to join from an office manager with my company in the nearest office. I contacted him; he said he is not signed up with them. I suspect someone who is signed up had him on their e-mail list and was hacked.
Summary execution is too good for hackers.
One possibility... I know lawyers are employing doctors to make cold calls/emails based on medical information discovered in regard to class action suits.
I got an email to connect with an acquaintance through LinkedIn. I sent her a regular email telling her I don’t do social websites or emails. She apologized, and said she was sorry she had even joined the site. If you don’t want to keep getting invitations to connect with this person, at the bottom of the email(s), you should see the following message:
You are receiving Invitation to Connect emails.
Click the Unsubscribe link right next to it.
As soon as I did that, the messages stopped.
I get stuff from LinkedIn all the time. I consider it 100% spam and ignore it all.
I got messages from one of my cousins from LinkedIn for several weeks. I replied to HER, not the email. She had a virus on HER computer. Got her computer cleaned and the emails stopped.
LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Is the information he is providing accurate? It could be he knows someone who knows someone if your relative is not on LinkedIn. Or he may be trying to reach someone else with your same name. I would reply to him that you are not interested and please do not contact you again. If he persists, contact LinkedIn. Just google them.
Might be an Obama operative. Make any threats recently?
Report this to LinkedIn and get this dude tossed. This should not be occurring on a profession social media like LinkedIn.
Probably not a scam - Linked In is a business social network that has some bad manners. I have a friend who was a member for a while and even though he quit it, I still get invites. I assume tha bad manners is to try to grow the numbers to eventually turn into a profitable, Ala Facebook, business. The difference is Facebook ties a kazillion folks together via contacts of contacts while leaving it up to the people to request “friending” and Linked In seems to generate its own invites - bad business model.
I looked at his linkedin page and it’s in ALL CAPS. Dead give away... The question is how he knows about your kids. Facebook maybe? Someone sharing a little too much?