[volunteers] LinkedIn spam: Cut that bull****, please

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jesse Monroy (jesse650 at gmail.com):

> Rick,
> I know you are missing the point. Perhaps because John is
> not clear in the email. The long list of attached email addresses
> is not by him. It is most likely a failed spam attempt.
> 
> Spammers are mostly likely trying to catch people on the
> click. So, what is most likely is that the recent break in at
> Linkedin has prompted spammers to send fake confirmation
> emails that have their basis on John's address-book (keep by
> Linkedin). We will find out in a few days.

That doesn't make any sense.  There was no 'long list of attached email
addresses'.

> I can assure you the original email is NOT from John Sokol.

I didn't _say_ the mail was from John Sokol.  It was from LinkedIn.  Why
don't you go re-read the original post, Jesse?

Actually, let me just recap:  It was a genuine notice of password reset
for a LinkedIn account, genuinely sent by the LinkedIn software on a
LinkedIn IP, and addressed to the following login account at LinkedIn:

John Sokol <speakers at lists.svlug.org>

There were no phishing links, no false concealed response address.
There's nothing that spammers could possibly benefit from.  

So, someone actually created an account at LinkedIn with a membership
address of 'John Sokol <speakers at lists.svlug.org>'.  You're saying
someone other than John did that?  I find that a bit hard to believe,
but correspondingly easy to believe that John did.