The recent discovery is quite startling and you should be careful. A report shows that hundreds of thousands of LinkedIn accounts have fake profile information. The report shows that the number of people who listed Apple as their employer halved in 24 hours. This is the result of LinkedIn cracking down on fake and bot accounts.
Jay Pinho, a developer who tracks data at LinkedIn, was the first to notice the sharp declines in Apple and Amazon. According to the findings he published, as of Oct. 10 of this year, the number of LinkedIn accounts with Apple as an employer was 576. However, by the end of the next day, that number had dropped to less than 562. Pinho says the situation is similar with Amazon. Amazon saw a 285 percent drop in its LinkedIn workforce.
Fake LinkedIn accounts are now prevalent
LinkedIn confirms that the sharp drop in the number of Apple and Amazon employees is due to the company removing fake accounts using automated tools and reviewers. “We regularly take steps to remove fake accounts on our platform and are constantly improving our systems to stop fake accounts before they are launched. We do indeed block the vast majority of fraudulent activity we detect in our community…” LinkedIn spokesperson Greg Snapper said in a statement.
Overnight, the number of Apple employees on LinkedIn dropped by almost 300. LinkedIn's efforts to combat fake accounts went unnoticed. Currently, the focus is on potentially fake accounts Twitter. Однак проблема LinkedIn із підробленими обліковими записами опинилася в центрі уваги в серпні. У той час Чанпен Чжао, генеральний директор криптовалютної біржі Binance, написав у Twitter: «На LinkedIn є 7000 профілів «співробітників Binance», з яких лише близько 50 є справжніми». Він каже, що деякі облікові записи LinkedIn є «брехунами», і застерігає своїх підписників «бути обережними».
Now it appears that LinkedIn took action shortly after the tweet. Just as Apple and Amazon cut LinkedIn's headcount overnight, Binance saw its headcount drop by 23% in early September. The bottom line is that social media users should be wary of fake LinkedIn accounts. Many of the profiles we see on LinkedIn are probably fake.
