Why I hate LinkedIn Premium

[Saluki]

LinkedIn Premium allows you to contact people who are not in your network.  While this may have some legitimate uses, 99% of the messages that I get from people that I don't know personally are scammers.  Work from home, ponzi schemes, "get listed in Who's Who book for your industry", etc.   Here's one that I just got: 

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Are you interested in investing in a FinTech company with groundbreaking potential? [scammy sounding company] is looking for investors like you to be a part of our mission. We're offering shares for $7 each in our $49 million dollar offering to expand our existing businesses. [scammy sounding company] you the opportunity to invest in 5 distinct business lines with one investment and multiplies your returns – up to 10x potential in just 5 years.

 

Join us on this journey, and let's drive innovation while saving customers money. I'd love to walk you through our investor deck – trust me, 15 minutes could change your life.

 

Feel free to call me or text me back at your convenience. My contact details are below. Looking forward to connecting with you soon!

 

Best regards,

Tom [[last name]

 

 

I don't know why I'm wasting my time on here.  No offense to @Parsad and the members of this board, but if I can get a 10x in 5 years from some rando on LinkedIn, then why am I doing things the hard way? What a stroke of luck for me that instead of keeping the 10x from himself, or giving it to people like Sequoia, that he decided to offer it to a person that he's never even met before.  I'm sure Tom's friends and family won't be happy that he didn't offer them a slice, but instead decided to let a random person on LinkedIn get rich instead. Maybe he comes from a dysfunctional family so he'd rather give away the opportunity to total strangers out of spite.  Or maybe they are good people and he is the bad one, who alienated his family by his single minded pursuit of wealth at any cost.  In any event, their loss is my gain, right? 

 

I have to admit, at first I thought it might be a scam, but he literally says in the email "trust me"!  

[DooDiligence]

This is the golden age of grifters.

[Hektor]

49 minutes ago, Saluki said:

Maybe he comes from a dysfunctional family so he'd rather give away the opportunity to total strangers out of spite.

 You read my mind 

[Gamecock-YT]

just imagine the offers you would get if you were a 'Who's Who book for your industry'!