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I'm no lover of LinedIn, and I bet they do some shady thing. As to your second email address, I wonder if it's someone trying to 'connect' to you input it. Link

• kbenson 11y ago
  No, when this first happened, I was confused and contacted the individual by IM. They hadn't tried to contact my through LinkedIn or any other method, nor even logged into LinkedIn in quite a while. I just checked, and now there exists an account for the other email address, with no contacts. It's possible a bug created a bunch of accounts based on some alternate email settings they had, but I can't imagine them keeping around a bunch of bogus accounts unless it served some useful purpose, such as increasing the user count to show growth...
  • kbenson 11y ago
    On further reflection, I remember creating that account with no connections while investigating what was going on. I tried to log in from the email address that was receiving the emails but couldn't and assumed that the account had been cancelled for inactivity. I "reopened" the account (in reality creating a new one) on accident. So I retract any statements about them accidentally creating accounts, this was a while back and I had forgotten that portion. But to be clear, that wohle scenario happened because LinkedIn started sending info to that (unaffiliated) email address unexpectedly, and I assumed if I was getting LinkedIn email there, that must be my account email...