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if the guy has had the account for 20 years without being banned then he's probably not a bot its a data harvesting exercise
by blibble 3y ago
if the guy has had the account for 20 years without being banned then he's probably not a bot
its a data harvesting exercise
- avarun 3y agoYou would think that, but you’d be wrong. Old inactive accounts get purchased and sold to bot networks all the time.
- c420 3y agoAged accounts have very high value to hackers as well: https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/28/23892964/facebook-account-hacked-theft-stolen-online-scams-meta https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/28/23892964/facebook-a...
- michaelteter 3y agoNot to defend Linkedin, but it is always possible that new measures (filters) are devised by people who don't consider all the possible parameters. In other words, some less-thinking Linkedin employee decides to do a thing without adequate consideration of all the information available (such as length of time of membership). Maybe Linkedin let some moron apply rules, or Linkedin is grabbing data for marketing/sales purposes, or there's an explanation we haven't realized yet.
- throwawaysleep 3y agoAged Reddit accounts have a decent market. LinkedIn could easily be the same.
- freitasm 3y agoYep. I've seen plenty of cryptoscam posts with "Elon is giving away crypto!" and a screenshot that they pretend comes from Elon's X account. Looking at the Reddit account they can be ten years old but with no activity at all in the last five or so years, then a sudden wave of these scam posts.