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An Interesting Convo On LinkedIn

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This one seemed really weird:

  • Eileen Arellano 2nd degree connection· 2ndSemiconductor Technology Research Officer at BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
  • TODAYRand Simberg sent the following message at 2:52 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  2:52 PM
  • Why do you want to connect with me?
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following message at 2:54 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  2:54 PM
  • I’m interested in your field, so I’d like to establish contact with you 🙂
  • Rand Simberg sent the following message at 2:54 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  2:54 PM
  • My field being…?
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following message at 2:57 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  2:57 PM
  • Aren’t you an aeronautical engineer?
  • Rand Simberg sent the following message at 2:58 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  2:58 PM
  • No.
  • If you’re interested in aeronautics, I’m the wrong guy. I do space.
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following messages at 2:59 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  2:59 PM
  • Isn’t spaceflight part of aviation?
  • This confuses me a bit lol
  • Rand Simberg sent the following message at 3:01 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  3:01 PM
  • No.
  • Aviation can be part of spaceflight, but isn’t generally. Aviation is about things operating in the atmosphere. For spaceflight, the atmosphere is just an annoyance that you have to get through to get to or from space.
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following message at 3:03 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  3:03 PM
  • That’s so cool, my knowledge on the subject is a bit poor, but it’s interesting and I’d love to learn more about spaceflight if you have the time 🙂
  • Rand Simberg sent the following message at 3:04 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  3:04 PM
  • If you’re really interested in space, I’ll connect. I get a lot of invitations from attractive women who I make the mistake of connecting with, who then try to engage in conversation and wanting to make friends with me, and that’s not what LinkedIn is for. But I don’t really have time to tutor individuals on spaceflight. I can recommend reading material.
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following message at 3:09 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  3:09 PM
  • Haha, too many women and men like that, and I get a lot of them, but I don’t usually respond. I do have an interest in space, and you can recommend me some reading material, but I’d prefer if you could share some of your experiences with me, it’d be more interesting and rewarding
  • Rand Simberg sent the following message at 3:12 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  3:12 PM
  • I’m sure it would, but I really don’t have time for one-on-one conversations about space to education people. But go read some of my essays: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/rand-simbergRand Simberg — The New Atlantisthenewatlantis.com • 1 min read
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following message at 3:17 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  3:17 PM
  • Thank you, I don’t think you need to teach me one-on-one, I’d like to hear you share 40 years of experience in this field when you have the time, I think it would be more interesting and meaningful than reading material
  • Rand Simberg sent the following message at 3:32 PMView Rand’s profileRand Simberg  3:32 PM
  • Again, I’m sure it would be, but I don’t have the time, unless you want to pay me my hourly rate.
  • LinkedIn Member sent the following messages at 5:49 PMView LinkedIn Member’s profileLinkedIn Member  5:49 PM
  • don’t reply he is a dog pusher
  • If the content in this message is unwanted or harmful, please report it to us. We won’t notify the sender.ReportMark content safe

I have no idea what a “dog pusher” is. Anyone have any ideas?

But this still seems like a scammer.

12 thoughts on “An Interesting Convo On LinkedIn”

  1. A word of advice. Stay away from social media (and LinkedIn is that) until after your lawsuit is settled. There are all sorts of roads to “discovery”.

    I couldn’t find a definition of it on Urban Dictionary but it is a characteristic of dogs to push their noses into other dogs as a sign of submission. Sounds like a LinkedIn form of pathology.

  3. I’ve started getting spam texts. I work with a rotating group of customers who communicate via text so I can’t really ignore the messages in case I’m missing a new number in my contact list. My recent reply led to the scammer sending me a picture of an attractive Asian lady and saying that we’d met at a benefit held the week before. Ugh.

    1. Back in 2013, after my divorce, I reconnected with the girl I had dated more than 30 years before on LinkedIn. We’re now happily married, and life has never been better.

    1. It is suspicious enough to consider reporting it to the FBI but it was also clumsy if it was a foreign intelligence agency.

      1. I suspect they have their cheap hires work on the phishing-grade attempts. Low-probably but worth attempting if you are paying some one two dollars a day.

  6. Don’t know for sure, but it sounds like the kind of thing one would hear on the trading floor in relation to someone flogging bad product, I.e. pushing deals that are total dogs.
    I don’t think I’ve done anything on LinkedIn in about a decade. It just never seemed to really work for me and yeah, lots of weird linkup requests from people I have no clue about.

      1. You’re thinking of Charlie, but I’m sure they’re cousins somewhere in the family tree. The Irish can be a bit…prolific.

    2. Don’t know for sure, but it sounds like the kind of thing one would hear on the trading floor in relation to someone flogging bad product, I.e. pushing deals that are total dogs.

      I was thinking the same thing. My bet is that they were prepared to steal whatever they could – from lifting financial information like bank account numbers, if that’s all they could get, to a full blown scam.

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