What is your take? Are LinkedIn’s policies not a strict as I thought? Could this guy have dodged the ban-hammer for more than 2 years with scams or could the 0.01% chance that it is real have happened?

So waht's the question? Do you want to work in Dubai? No? So what does it matter! First mail, ignore, second mail block.

As for dodging the ban hammer... So I'm going to scam you and a hundred/thousand others, on a site that encourages everybody to register for free. Guess what I'll be doing: my botnet creates a thousand or so accounts, and I'll use each one until it gets banned. Even without trying, I'll end up owning a couple dozen accounts that are two years old.

No surprise there.

To be fair, I hear that hiring for Dubai is very hard, and positions there are very lucrative (though not necessarily with respect to the cost of living).

Friends who work over there indicate that some of the more outlandish job postings may in fact be real.

I don't think I've ever had any real Spam like that from LinkedIn.

I do find LinkedIn to be extremely useful, particularly when contracting. I am very careful who I add to my profile though. I only have a select few recruiters as contacts and tend to just add other developers and colleagues which are usually much more useful.

If somebody is claiming to be the HR manager of a bank it is fairly easy to figure out if they are telling the truth or not as somebody with a job like that would easily have +500 contacts and a lot of them would also work at the same bank. Also companies have their own profile pages which link to a list of employees who have listed that profile as their current job. So you could just find somebody else who works in HR at the bank of Dubai and ask them if this guy is who he says he is (this is how LinkedIn is supposed to work).

And like swiftcoder has said hiring for Dubai is very hard and a lot of Dubai companies do take the direct approach by just randomly contacting you. I have several friends who have got really good jobs this way. However this particular one does smell a little fishy.

So waht's the question? Do you want to work in Dubai? No? So what does it matter! First mail, ignore, second mail block.

I didn’t ask about Dubai, but I did ask about financial jobs on LinkedIn. So yes.

As for dodging the ban hammer... So I'm going to scam you and a hundred/thousand others, on a site that encourages everybody to register for free. Guess what I'll be doing: my botnet creates a thousand or so accounts, and I'll use each one until it gets banned. Even without trying, I'll end up owning a couple dozen accounts that are two years old.
No surprise there.

This and other replies are telling of how many people seem to misunderstand why I am asking this.
Apparently not many people are aware of the counter-measures LinkedIn employs.
If you ask to be a contact of someone, you get penalized if that person rejects your request and even more if that person says he or she does not know you.
A few penalties and you are banned. There is literally no way you could continue a scam for more than a week or perhaps a month. A single scam cannot last 2 years. Even if you made a thousand accounts. None will last more than a month, unless none of them are functional. The scam depends on adding people, and the simple act of adding people is a bullet to dodge. Why do you think I created this topic in the first place? Do you think this “scam” thing is new to me? “Hare guys! Dis scum ting I not lyke, wy day able werk 2 yeers?”.


L. Spiro

I've never had anything good or bad come out of Linkedin.

As far as i'm concerned its just one of many organisations that probably has too much personal information about me (that i willfully put into their system). I'm sure if I networked in their way, it would become more useful to me, and it is certainly less of an annoyance than facebook, which really IS annoying with all its spammy app requests and vain posts about where people are going on holiday...