I've had a couple of LinkedIn "invitations" to connect recently from US people who claim to be wanting to help companies move into the UK market. These are "people" with whom I'm only 3rd level connected (which seems to cover about 50% of the population of the US for me) and the opportunities they are offering seem to be fairly unconnected with my past experience.
For instance:
As a bit more background, the most recent one is someone whose profile says that they left Uni in 2005, took 5 years to get to the position of marketing manager with one of the biggest global manufacturers and then left to set up his own agency 2 years ago. However, in all that time in marketing and consulting, he has only got 8 connections.
It stinks of con, it has alarm bells all over it, but I'm still wondering what I've got to lose from giving out a Hotmail address which is already receiving significant volumes of processed meat.
For instance:
I'm in two minds about it, though. Whilst my address (I use a Hotmail addy) seems to be a spam-magnet already, so things couldn't get much worse, what if these are real people with real opportunities?
As a bit more background, the most recent one is someone whose profile says that they left Uni in 2005, took 5 years to get to the position of marketing manager with one of the biggest global manufacturers and then left to set up his own agency 2 years ago. However, in all that time in marketing and consulting, he has only got 8 connections.
It stinks of con, it has alarm bells all over it, but I'm still wondering what I've got to lose from giving out a Hotmail address which is already receiving significant volumes of processed meat.
Indeed, although there's an aroma of toasted spam and a smoking gun in the holster of at least one of the mods. 
