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Bogus LinkedIn profiles punt malware to fools

Chris Gray

LinkedIn fairly safe 

Go

You can accomplish pretty much everything on LinkedIn with JavaScript turned off, so it continues to be a fairly safe site.

Francis Fish

Berk is rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt 

Unhappy

... and was judged unparliamentry language some years ago. Please, don't use it. Fuck is fine for me though, carry on ... nothing to see here.

Anonymous Coward

Berk etc. 

Paris Hilton

Akshully, Berkshire Hunt is rhyming slang for C***. Berk is the approved short form version.

Something smells of fish, though......

David Wiernicki

Hard to imagine? 

"It's hard to imagine many (if any) would have been taken in by such a crude and transparently bogus ruse..."

...but then again, I got a nigerian spam yesterday - totally normal, except FROM: was "NIGERIAN SCAMMERS". Seriously.

Ian Hendry

Not the best place to spread malware... 

Surely most people on LinkedIn, which boasts it has the highler echelons of society, would smell a rat when a "celebrity" is using a professional networking site to tout nude pictures?

Apat from which, LinkedIn proactively discourages you from connecting to people you don't already know, so it's quite unlikely you'll be surfing for celebs in the first place.

Not the best place to be spreading malware.

Ian Hendry

CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ

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