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FBI Says Fraud On LinkedIn A ‘Significant Threat’
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NEVER invest with anyone who approaches you, especially on any social networking sites.
People who work for investment firm get you to invest through networking. So the method is not uncommon. The thing that surprised with such an investment they didn't do their homework with the individual.
@@alexanderperez2732
Even if you're legitimately investing in crypto, it's such a volatile, shaky investment that has nothing actually backing it that you'd be nuts to put your life savings into it.
i just dont got how idiots fall for this
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 thanks to people only posting their wins on social media, people actually think that crypto is some shortcut to the bag. For every successful investor there are a million dumbasses that lost everything.
It’s not just LinkedIn.
It’s pretty much every platform and all dating apps as well.
It’s on TH-cam like every single message boards.
I had this happen with my SafeMoon on discord.
Thanks for the generic crap reply. "It's all the same".
becsuse people r stupid
It's a numbers game, they contact 20,000 people and two or three fall for the scams
The amounts these people lost are absolutely staggering. Greed is a crazy thing.
Stupidity is a bigger problem. Get a brain.
IF YOU DON'T HOLD IT YOU DON'T OWN IT PARTICIPATING IN THIS WHOLE FINANCIAL SYSTEM WE'RE ALL AT RISK I'M PURCHASING GOLD AND SILVER I HOLD IT💯👍
@@karlosandrews9024
When you put all of your words in caps, it doesn't make you sound crazy at all. Not one bit. No siree!
It's greed mixed with ignorance. It's no different than the Bernie Madoff situation. I'm not Warren Buffett, but when it comes to me investing my money, I've ALWAYS followed one rule: if I don't understand it, I don't do it. Go read up who Boomer Esiason, former QB for the Bengals and Jets, was able to avoid being scammed by Madoff simply due to one thing: he asked Bernie to explain how it is that he's getting such great returns and when Bernie didn't give him an answer he could understand, he said no thanks!
If they were going to invest it, then they didn't need it. Giving to charity would have been a better option, but the rich want to stay rich.
I never felt safe on Linkd In. Something just didn’t feel right, everyone promising success, money, investing etc.
Right wide open.
and a job but that you have to invest resources first? WTF!?
Yeah I don't like using linked in but it necessary if you have been to school to show your resume. It is an invasion of privacy and feel uncomfortable that anyone can see your profile.
It's the internet.....no one should have a false sense of security
@@manuelvega-villa9699
Someone offered you a job, but said you have to invest first?
I left the site many years ago. I didn’t feel like it was helping me make any advantageous connections to help propel me anywhere in life. Smelled like elitist BS.
I got my three past engineering jobs from LinkedIn so…
It has its benefits, I don't have the app installed on my phone, no time to browse posts. But it's great for finding work, etc. I do it all on my desktop computer. Same goes with all other social media networks. Nothing installed on my phone, much better lifestyle :)
It's probably the best place on the internet for tech related jobs.. Its all computer science and engineering students and grads use and talk about. Idk about any other careers but its great for that.
Not only financial scams but romance scams as well on LinkedIn!
Blows my mind Linkedin doesn't have a feature to let people verify their profile with their work email so other users can be sure the person they're talking to is legit. Other professional networking platforms already do this. Get with the program, Microsoft. It's not that hard 🤦♂️
What do you mean "verify the person is legit"? What does "legit" mean in this case and what steps would you take?
Look, at the end of the day, there's a sucker born every minute and there's only so much a company can do. I've said this before and I'll say it again: just put your money in a fund that matches the S&P 500 Index. Over any 30 year block of time, it averages 10% interest, WHICH BEATS 90% OF ACTIVELY MANAGED FUNDS!! Why would anyone want to then get involved with some get rich quick scheme that they don't understand is beyond me. Even if it's a legit crypto account, you wouldn't see me investing my life's savings in crypto. But they hear stories of people becoming super wealthy and think it'll happen to them too. People also win the lotto, just not you!
A scammer can also have a work email. Scammers open up LLC‘s , commercial companies, networking, and sometimes they are “subsidiaries” of popular profitable entities. Many domain names are owned by scammers already so there’s no way to truly know this and less you use the Internal Revenue Service or a private BC service that verifies employment via multiple sources. This means that you would have to comply with the fair credit reporting act, and the employment act which means that LinkedIn would have to act as an employer/creditor since they are offering a service and they would be liable for so many other issues in order to be able to basically run full LEXIS-NEXIS and credit checks on people just to have a LinkedIn account.
Maybe don't send money/investments to people on the internet.
It costs less than $15 to set up a work email. That isn't going to stop scammers. In fact, scammers who have contacted me through LinkedIn not only had a work email but a professional looking website!
Please do your research before you speak. A scammer can create their own company with a professional looking website and that’s exactly how most startup companies are created.
I've seen a lot of this on TH-cam. Every time I saw people posting it I reported it as "Fraud".
@@mbjasniewski Thanks for doing your part. I try and do the same. I wonder what they are going do about this on a greater scale. It's everywhere, TH-cam, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.
@@mbjasniewski More folks are just catching on about that scam. Crypto was relatively new and it did seem like many found a good mine, but turns out as we know now… anything that is highly unregulated could potentially fall into scam.
That is why I don't treat LinkedIn like it was a social media platform to just meet people and get followers. I rarely accept connections from people I don't know or that are not in the network of people I know. And I never connect with investors there.
Exactly!
I just started a page for a specific purpose, but this is EXACTLY how I plan to behave. First of all, I’m not an investor and have NO interest in getting involved in investing or engaging with strangers for purposes unrelated to my specific interest, and my interest do NOT involve spending money. To this day, I have a laundry list of random people requesting my friendship on Facebook that I’ve ignored until I get around to deleting them. Heck, there are some ppl in there that I DO KNOW, but have no desire of connecting with them. My friends laugh at me because I joined over a decade ago and only have about 150 friends.
Same!
My money is important to me, so I am very wary of strangers having access to my personal account information. I've always been taught not to invest all my money in one place. So, even if I do fall prey to a scam, I'd only lose a fraction of my money. I'm also wary of anything I don't fully understand or platforms I've never heard of. Always do goid research.
This is why I am wary of sharing my information with social media sites particularly when it involves employment prospects.
I've been told I HAVE to be on LinkedIn to find new jobs. No thanks, I prefer to stay private.
That’s what i was told when I was in college but trust me, many recent graduates got good jobs without being on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is just another Facebook. People who make their profiles public don’t understand the dangers they are putting themselves in, scammers can take their information and create fake Facebook and Instagram accounts, they can steal their identities and talk to other people and scam other people using those people’s real data from LinkedIn. Once you make your information public on social media or LinkedIn you are doomed, It will be shared on other websites such as beenVerified, Radaris, Intellilus etc . There are scammers from all over the world especially from India and China.
For the monthly amount LinkedIn charges, their statement is that their policy is they do not allow any fraudulent activity???
They also try to pretend to be job recruiters. I caught a couple of them myself.
So the fraudster lost his LinkedIn account... He got a million dollars though, so he's fine with it.
Good point
FBI needs to investigate TH-cam as well
Why
Just don’t click on links or contact any WhatsApp numbers. Stay safe
I work in a discipline of studying criminals & what that man said 'they spend their days and nights thinking of ways to defraud people's could not have been a more true statement. Stay safe and stay observant every day out there people. God bless.
Who has that kind of money these days?
Morons with money. A fool is easily parted from their money.
Most people...
@@a.y.greyson9264 … if most people did they wouldn’t be falling for investment scams lol
@@Rastaferrari829 I’m sure he’s talking about saved. Most people by 40 “who work” have at least 250k. The real question is how they go about investing that money. Should’ve stick to Index Funds, knowing they weren’t savvy.
One sound advice: do not put any personal info on line and definitely do not give away your money to anyone on line. That simple.
If you’re applying for jobs
good luck trying to live in the 21st century
That’s so sad and I’m so sorry for those who fell victim to these types of criminals. I think a good take away would be that we have to stop expecting all these tech and social media giants to have our 100% back and not do our do diligence to investigate for ourselves. As a society we are becoming more and more accustomed to not ask questions or question anything and has removed our ability to critically think. Never trust a social media platform or any tech company to care about your personal interest. Plz help yourself and those around you to recognize there is true threats out there and if you chose to throw caution to the wind understand that is a choice.
When a crime is not punished quickly people feel it is right to do what is wrong
Recent fakes u can detect but the professional fakes is not which is the worst
Don’t accept invitation to connect from someone you don’t know. Your security is more important than your popularity.
I know how hard it is to save money and to see it gone away. Praying for them and they rise above it.
I think 🤔 LinkedIn should be sued for security leaks.
My regards to the victims. With all the market chaos, verification by credible means, meeting the people face to face and using a lawyer reviewed contract.
I worked in international trade and our first deal with new people always started with a international flight to meet the new contact.
Like cal statue of fraud, anything over $50 dollars in value must be in writing. That always gave a starting point to show how legit a party is
Something similar happened on indeed. When I started asking questions and saying I was going to stop by the office and verify, I was blocked. I called the office directly and was told there was scam and the alert was supposed to have taken down the scam.
How do they think they are??!?!?
I always thought LinkedIn was mainly to develop employment and professional contacts, and not a place to find "investment advice." Actually, LinkedIn is hardly the most secure platform. I had to change my LinkedIn password a long time ago because hackers got a ton of them from the platform, but I still get emails from scammers trying to extort money from me because they know my old password.
I knew it. In the last few months I’ve been getting fake profiles. I do my homework y looking them up on Google and Yelp and in forums. Then I block them and I don’t allow them to connect with me.
These people were looking for quick money gains and that is why they were victims. Greed for more money will lead to doing foolish things.
I'm currently dealing with this now. I pray all these scammer get caught soon!
I felt bad for those who fall victim into this horrible scam. I was also contacted last month by scammers through my LinkedIn account. Thank goodness I listened to my intuition. God bless you all!
There are many crypto scams on TH-cam comments as well. I think that's more threatening than other social media
Criminals may be spending a lot of time on how to take from others, but if you are dump enough to think something that uninsured, on line and can't be tracked or take in by yourself, who really the stupid one?
Why is anyone even on linked in?
Poor lady
I gave up on linked in when I started recieving multiple requests a day from Chinese buisness men and women.
Dumpster fire same as everything else on the internet.
This almost happened to me on Instagram- I realized it before it was too late ! I’m so sorry for all those that fell victim to this . It’s very easy to do because it’s so believable. I sent in a report to the fbi site . I am very surprised this is happening on LinkedIn .
Let's use common sense people
LinkedIn is kind of sketchy, I'm not surprised at all, other than it doesn't get the same traffic as Instagram, TH-cam, Facebook, where they also phish for victims.
How old are you
Why is it so believable?
Guys, don't let your greed override your common sense.
1. Never, ever, EVER invest your entire nest egg into something like crypto
2. The older you are and the more money you've built up, the more risk adverse you should be.
TH-cam is full of those who advice you to invest in crypto.
I get off on the almost immediate twelve or fifteen replies an investment comment might get,
everyone interested, eventually naming an advisor and giving a number, even if it's a video with a death.
I report those as unwanted spam.
@@johnwattdotca those replies are part of the scam.
@@johnwattdotca wow,so you can't tell that all of those comments are from the scammers and not regular viewers 😉
@@realtalk37851 I noticed that last summer and I'm still surprised people are promoting themselves that way. It's a lot of work, coordinating over ten email to go with one comment, the first few wanting to diversify their income stream and try it, and then you get a name of an advisor and then a number and a few I'm making money ones. It might be time to look at comments about apps where I make money while I'm sleeping.
if you run a small business and get a customer hurt or compromised you are responsible. Why do giant Internet services get a pass for this? BOYCOTT LinkedIn
Indeed?
The amount of money these people lost is absolutely mind boggling. On LinkedIn? Wow. Very eye opening and informative report.
Oh no
Lady loses $7 million? She got too greedy. Tough luck. Always maintain total legal control of your funds. It's a really easy concept.
Exactly, it sounds like greed got the best of most of these people because they already amassed a large amount of wealth most people don’t have.
If been offered financial advice on LinkedIn glad I didn’t go for it
So is your cointelpro.
Losing millions to someone you met on the internet is mind boggling. I don't even feel bad at that point just common sense. Us poor people would NEVER give someone a dollar over the internet let alone millions
The better scammers actually take their time and try to achieve better results for you at first to gain your trust. Like making you a few thousands to tens of thousands.
They know if they can work on a single or handful of scams at once and make you money they can then take your trust and confidence in them to nefarious levels.
Small business owners are the major target because they tend to have a good amount of assets to work with.
Remember these scammers are actually good at some of the investing, after plenty of practice. They sharpen their skills just like any money manager. They just have zero morals.
This is just normal American capitalism. Otherwise these crooks would be prosecuted.
Crooks is not a part of capitalism. It's part of communism.
I get these request at least once a week from some random yoyo wanting to connect. I only connect to people who I actually know personally. And I would NEVER give money to anyone to invest. Even my own mother.
All these fools ,-
32 million ? That company needs to be dissolved and the people in charge need prison time omg 😳. It’s so evident
Get them!
NOTHING on the internet is to be considered 'uncontaminated' and pristine. Believe what you will but do so with a grain of skepticism. We live in the world of cons.
A fool and their money are soon parted. If it wasn't linked-in, it would happen somewhere else.
When things are too good to be true…
Don’t trust anyone online.
We know what country behind every scammer.
Thanks Yasmin Khorram Et Al.🙂
1:50
How did her friend know the scammer, though????? How and why did she give her money to someone she doesn't know personally????
Hahaha!!!! Too bad!!!! Who are they to judge us to work for the establishment.
Wax on, wax off, Daniel son, control yourself!
On the human duck blind, fraud is endemic.
“It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.” W. C. Fields
Said a human cartoon character cigar in mouth
Linked-In is still a thing?
Yeah. I just found a remote job on LinkedIn 👍
That’s horrible! So sad! I was a victim of this issue recently. It’s messed up my bank account as of right now. Still dealing with this nonsense. How is our technology and cybersecurity still so vulnerable. Hire the criminal hackers and pay them well to train others. 😖😓 do something to balance the scale! I lost what I had and even what I don’t have😩😩
So sorry about that.....I lost my $6500 to a platform recently. All thanks to a God sent who helped me get all back. You can get to him through the name written above ✅
This feeds on greed. Nothing good comes from it.
IF IT"S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE IT IS!!!!!!
This happens ALL the time! I feel so bad for these people and it's next too impossible to recover the funds...
Sorry but if you give that much away on the internet without doing due diligence it's kind of your fault. I would literally NEVER just transfer 700,000 dollars to a random site to someone I've never met.
Praying God help them all
The companies that will pay you in bitcoins sounds hella fishy! It's all over LinkedIn!
I never trust content that gives you financial advice. Anything “financial” being marketed on social media is automatically a scam to me.
I apply that to emails too, so many scams out there 👍
LinkedIn is not a site to find jobs anymore..it's a scheme platform
They all share one thing. Greed. They knew. They just overlooked it because of greed.
Got a linkedin ad before this video. 😟
I hope LinkedIn isnt simply just taking down these accounts, i.e. they should be shadowbanning them so that investigating teams can try to find out more about the physical locations of these scammers.
It’s not only on LinkedIn, TH-cam, Facebook etc…
Easy fix... don't invest or transfer your money when a stranger tell you to.
LinkedIn does nothing about this. I tried to report a mlm pretending to have a real job to LinkedIn and they sent me a email saying they’re gonna leave it up.
Even on Instagram unfortunately I was a victim of a scheme
Duh.
Given how much some people were scammed, is it accurate to conclude that people don't need to be intelligent to make good money? Honestly I have plenty of people reaching out to me on Linkedin, text messages, etc who pretend to be someone else. I regularly talk to scammers online wasting their time and effort. lol. it's actually pretty fun on some days. I could understand some seniors may fall for scams but middle age adults?... oh lord.
Your comment is pretty insensitive. Just bc someone might have a lot more trust and fall victim doesn't make them unintelligent. There are many ways intelligence is measured.
@@LaSophiaMichael listen to yourself. How much brainwashing do you have to go through to get from "stupidity" to "a lot of trust." I admire your positive attitude toward life but you gotta get a reality check in things. Whenever at end of the scam, ppl reflect back on the events, they go like "signs were there." Insensitive as it may be the facts are some ppl should be much smarter than this. Ppl who can be scammed as such as likely the very same type of ppl who can get their company hacked. Most of these scams involves wire transfer money to an account that's somehow owned by an unknown brokerage/banks.
@@LaSophiaMichael really he's just making a valid point. Why would you trust people online with your hard earned money?You have no proof it's a legitimate business smh
@@LaSophiaMichael well if you actually spend some time on these scams, just follow their instructions just to see where they want to go, it's actually a very smart way to shift out the smart ones and pick out the less intelligent ones.
These scams are targeting the most gullible of us. They never really exploit our willing to trust, they actually exploit our greed.
I almost fell for one of these scams because I wanted a Nintendo Switch so bad, so bad that I thought I got a very very very good deal.
I have my personal checkmark list to shift out scams, but I almost threw them all out because I really really really wanted to have a Nintendo Switch. Luckily I come to my senses in the last minute, and this seller was ticking everything that indicate that it's a scam.
So for me, you can turn into becoming the dumb one when they can fish that greed out of you.
FBI & SEC published a brief recently - mostly it's ppl in their 30s-50s who fall for these "investment" scams, especially in crypto. Perfect combo of old enough to have money, but young enough to not be savvy with it, plus often desperate to make more, quickly, either for fun or retirement.
Seniors were more likely to fall for long-cons, like romance scams, or fraud from someone they actually knew IRL.
Is this an advertisement for LinkedIn? Because everywhere this is seen.
Bitcoin is a scam
I never fell for it
A FRIEND...when did a stranger who linked you on LinkedIN become a friend?
Someone put me on Linked In and I couldn't get off it. I don't use any social media & I don't want to.
Important story.
Good thing i don't have any money
Companys the one scamming ! How they get away with it ! They know if a outside scammer shows up ! They can lie to public but i know better
Blows my mind... it sucks for these victims.. but ultimately.. they fell for a get-rich scheme. I've had plenty of friends fall for various investment scams... only to be out 10's or 100's thousands of dollars. Everyone thinks there is a quick way to get rich.....
Sounds like Instagram. The really need to get better with hackers.
That’s not hacking. LOL. That is called scamming. Two completely different definitions.
Yes this is a fact. My profile was hacked and Linked in response was very arbitrary...the perp even removed my profile photo. Reaching linked for any support is like trying to reach this Jesus that folk have been waiting for thousands of years
A fool and his money are soon parted
People put whatever they want to be on their. Total joke
GREATNESS comes from…
I have commented on TH-cam videos then had messages like hit me up on another platform or I have something for you on another platform and I just respond thanks but I don't need anything.
Aww thats terrible for the innocent who just want financial advise
If you have a linkedin only add people you meet in real life while you are with them
Seriously ppl. Don't do crypto. It's that simple to avoid this scam. *smh*
Wow