{"id":13982,"date":"2013-01-28T12:13:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:57:47","slug":"linkedin-phishing-scheme-is-back-dont-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/linkedin\/linkedin-phishing-scheme-is-back-dont-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn phishing scheme is back—don’t respond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you see a message in your email from “LinkedIn Email Confirmation”<\/strong> and with the subject line “Please confirm your email address,”<\/strong> it could very well be a fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That old LinkedIn phishing scheme<\/a> is back again. I got three identical emails within 90 minutes this morning. Notice the “From” line in the header below. The other two emails were sent from emailconfirm@locomp.net<\/strong> and from emailconfirm@eco.co.uk.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While reading LinkedIn’s Account Security & Privacy Best Practices<\/a>,  I noticed that it cautions against including your physical address, email address and phone number in your profile. My profile included my email address and phone number until  I deleted them a few minutes ago. That could be why I received the email. <\/p>\n\n\n

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If you see a message in your email from “LinkedIn Email Confirmation” and with the subject line “Please confirm your email address,” it could very well be a fraud. That old LinkedIn phishing scheme is back again. I got three identical emails within 90 minutes this morning. Notice the “From” line in the header below. The other\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":12,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[613],"tags":[637],"class_list":{"0":"post-13982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linkedin","7":"tag-social-media-productivity","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43167,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions\/43167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}