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.
The whole dam model operates by twisting words to make users think someone actually wants to contact them. I am a member of LinkedIn and get this email crap simply by some other LinkedIn member browsing my profile. Annoying in the least, but interesting as well to see who is looking at my profile. Just contact LinkedIn on this dude and raise holy hell!
This appears to be like “my daily flog” which invites you to see pictures from a friend. Once you agree and go through the sign up they highjack your address book and send request in your name to folks in your address book pretending to be you.
Several of my friends have had this happen with Linkedin lately. The one that had responded to the invite from a “supposed” friend found that his address book was high jacked and he can’t get off of the “Linkedin” member list. i don’t know if he has checked to see if he actually was on the Linkedin official site or an imposter site.
I always send an email to the person that supposedly sent the invite and ask them if they actually sent it. I have never had anyone reply that they sent the invite.
Delete, spam it and never respond to these “invites”.