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Wondering how many people have been contacted by Linkedin users looking for technical support and offering payment for it?

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Wow something new? Hearing/reading about this first time.

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This is not the first time for me, first time a guy from California actually tracked me down and called me and I know in that case it was not through our corporate website because it was my personal mail server that he emailed to.

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That would be interesting. As it is, I get about 3 dozen head hunter emails a day, most have nothing to do with my skill set.

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Yeah, I get lots of recruiters. Impossible to get off of all their call lists.

No actual people, though.

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First I’ve heard of it.

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I get a large number of recruiters emailing me, have had a few “personal” ones like you mentioned.

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I have seen a few recruitment ones, guess I could view it as a subset the gig economy and make a few bucks. Must be my world-wide reputation.

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Not me ever.

I get pinged to participate in 1 hour technology sessions from a paid sponsor with their client(s) ranging anywhere from a $10 to $500.

I did one for $295 out of curiosity. Within maybe 15 minutes they started asking questions that were spelled out as off limits in the paperwork :joy:

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This has never happened to me. I get recruiter messages about contract work… But never like help desk request for an immediate issue LOL. My friends sometimes reach out on other platforms for tech issues.

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Don’t think anybody likes me as I haven’t heard a peep from nobody. Granted, any LinkedIn email I get promptly goes to the trash bin.

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0 but maybe they know I’ll say no

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I don’t know if it’s people who found me on LinkedIn, but I get spam calls and emails all day every day just like everyone else. I gotta say though…if someone offered money to talk to me, I might consider responding.

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Never heard of that one. I’m suspicious it is somehow a scam.

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Yet another reason I’m glad to have left LinkedIn.

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None for me, and zero contact except maybe three times in the last 5 years. Twice from recruiters, and once from a manager at a legit organization in my industry. But my LI is so specific and niche to my industry anyway that I don’t look like a regular IT person.

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Its happened to me. Someone asking for help troubleshooting some Ubiquiti gear. I politely declined…

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sounds scammy to me.

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This has not happened to me though I do get offered to participate in paid Q&A Sessions about AWS all the time and I always decline. I did get a job from LinkedIn once and I currently use LinkedIn Learning which is pretty cool. Other than that I don’t use the “Social Media” aspect of it at all.

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