Connection Request

Posted: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 07:48 AM | Categories: Miscellaneous

I don't understand some of the connection requests I get on LinkedIn. I received one today that reads:

John Hi! Judging from your LinkedIn profile, you have achieved a lot in your field of work. I hope we can chat, and I look forward to our conversation!

Now, my LinkedIn Profile clearly states:

I restrict my LinkedIn connections to people I know, and have worked with professionally; if I do not know you, I will not accept your connection invitation.

Which means, I'm fairly certain, that I won't accept random connection requests unless, of course, I actually know the person requesting the connection.

Digging deeper, I see that the requesting person has the following description in their LinkedIn profile:

LP is engaged in freelancer. Started clothing, skin restoration, established clothing company, involved in wine, real estate, horse farm investment

LP? I thought the connection request was from Anna Liu.

On top of that: Clothing? Skin Restoration? Wine? Real estate? Horse farm investment? Why would I be interested in any of that considering what's in my LinkedIn profile today? I just don't get it.

Looking at their profile, it was created in 2013, but never posted anything to their profile in all those 11 years.

I assume this is some sort of scam, but I can't figure it out. Some sort of franchise opportunity? A recruiter? Who knows, I declined the invitation, so I guess I'll never know.

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