On: Stop Using LinkedIn

[MagicWishMonkey]

I had no idea that I granted them permission to send email through my account, I thought I had restricted them to the address book. I made a mistake.

[kazinator → MagicWishMonkey]

You don't think that giving an address book full of good addresses to known spammers is a bad idea?

Oh, it's okay as long as they send messages to those contacts using their identity, so it's not traced back to you ...

[jessaustin → MagicWishMonkey]

Just the address book would have been enough to allow most of the shenanigans described in this thread? Now LI know a bunch of other people that might recognize your name, and that's really all they need.

[MagicWishMonkey → jessaustin]

The part that really pissed me off was how they sent emails through my gmail account. They essentially hijacked my account to spam people.