What I reached to a conclusion that we are vulnerable on this website as it is easy for scammers to to login in and make network, then they can reach to our real information and contact / email etc
The website administration might trying hard to protect us but the process has many gaps all scammers can easily reach out.
This also can happen on LinkedIn, no immune Saving Changes...
I'd say this is true about almost any social network - the more we share, the more risk we are at for someone to abuse what we've shared.
The good thing is that we are usually only putting professional information about ourselves in our profiles in this community so the potential for misuse is limited.
Kiron
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2 replies by Riyadh Salih
Jan 20, 2019 8:24 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Kiron, I see your point but the problem they have good software and they can track and find out for example our email on LinkedIn is there they can use that to reach out with big campaign of scam emails, so it is not only professional info we provide sometimes if you are consultant you need people to reach out to contact you so however those will not stop our genuine activities for a good cause, thanks for your continuous support
Jan 20, 2019 8:24 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Kiron, I see your point but the problem they have good software and they can track and find out for example our email on LinkedIn is there they can use that to reach out with big campaign of scam emails, so it is not only professional info we provide sometimes if you are consultant you need people to reach out to contact you so however those will not stop our genuine activities for a good cause, thanks for your continuous support
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
While I agree with Kiron, I think among every other social media website, this platform is much more compromised. Just my opinion and I hear what Riyadh is saying.
We raised this issue many times to have a more rigorous process of who can create a profile and increase the amount of filtering especially adding profile photos but no action so far.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Jan 20, 2019 8:27 PM
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Rami, I thought the same until I started to get emails and weird massages so I thought even this website is not immune from scammers, the most hated one for me is the "Nigerian Money" with different dialogue, I didn't know that this was mentioned before so I guess I thank you for your continuous support to my posts.
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
If someone is keen enough to do it, they will - as in whether your doors are locked or not, can always just break the windows. That said, looking forward to seeing some long needed changes/upgrades.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Jan 20, 2019 8:30 PM
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Andrew, good point those who can break the window they need strong security guard software and not to leave the door open, if we see more tighten measures to verify the members then I can guarantee that we will see reductions in the number of members and connections. Thanks for your valued comment.
To protect yourself, I will recommend small things as don't post your city, only the state, don't write in your profile your or blog posts your email or cell phone number; and if someone reach you by inbox asking for phone number or e-mail don't share this information unless is someone that you trust. Saving Changes...
Georgia HarrisGLH Project Manager| Independent ConsultantPa, United States
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Jan 20, 2019 7:04 AM
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Gorgia well you are right but even then you get emails
I appreciate your support and advice thanks for your feed back
Mayte, you're right I wasn't aware that all my info on pmi was here then I started to remove the critical
Thanks for your valued feedback Saving Changes...
I'd say this is true about almost any social network - the more we share, the more risk we are at for someone to abuse what we've shared.
The good thing is that we are usually only putting professional information about ourselves in our profiles in this community so the potential for misuse is limited.
Kiron
Kiron, I see your point but the problem they have good software and they can track and find out for example our email on LinkedIn is there they can use that to reach out with big campaign of scam emails, so it is not only professional info we provide sometimes if you are consultant you need people to reach out to contact you so however those will not stop our genuine activities for a good cause, thanks for your continuous support Saving Changes...
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