There are so many fake profiles on LinkedIn its ridiculous. Now despite LinkedIn going public on the NY stock market and making billions of $$$ they seem to have not continued to reinvent the platform and upgrade the software to block such profiles.
Here is a prime example of one
Here is a prime example of one
Youssoupha TabuHumanitarian Affairs Specialist - UNOCHA at United Nations.
(Account Closed)
There are a few ways to tell, the main one is the profile picture, you can simply use a website like https://www.tineye.com/ to run the pictures url or download the picture into Google Images search https://images.google.com/. In this example you can see the picture has been stolen from this website http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/news/archive/?id=6043 and cropped.
The most obvious was the fact that he did not work for the united Nations.
LinkedIn could have bought a company dealing in software identification to stop such misuse of photographs or worked with a 3rd party but they have chosen to leave it to other members to report such profiles and have a very small support team who clearly are not able to keep up with the number of profiles reported by members daily.
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