Network Connections

Usually, creation fake profiles are used in different ways.

- Having a fake profile allow posting on discussion advertisings of non-related PM items. Do you remember the plumber months ago?

- Also, they can send inbox messages with scam or phishing to the community members.

Thank you for the info Rami and Stéphane.

Hello Rami and all: I have noticed these suspicious-looking profiles as well, and they are kind of scary. I am glad to hear Stéphane say there is a focus on cleaning this up. Fake profiles provide risk and that might make some legitimate users afraid to participate on this site which would be very unfortunate. Cyber risks are everywhere it seems.

You all raise good points. Now I want to go review my recent network connections.

The summer has been busy for these. Lots of odd posts, and new profiles. Great to hear of a cleanup effort. A more stringent new profile process would certainly add to the value here.

I am surprise that no one from PM.com commented here.

I have the same concern as yours Lori - I think there should be more strict regulations before approving any profile on this website and PMI should set a minimum requirement for an acceptable profile like Proper Photo, Profile Summary and so on.

This is a professional community so I believe adding profile minimum requirements is a must to eliminate such fake profiles and this can be done I guess by adding layers that can automatically detect the complete profile that matches the requirements so it won't need a person to physically check each and every profile. Not sure if I conveyed the idea 100%.

here is an example of a possible fake profile on this site: Sure Viagra, SureViagra - Viagra, Generic Online, SureViagra.com, USA. Network: 0

Yes, there are so many of these lately especially profiles that has a mushroom profile photo.