Besides North Korea, who else may be trying to bribe LinkedIn Members to rent or sell their LinkedIn Profiles so financial crimes can be committed?

Two years ago I started Banned by LinkedIn so I could learn how to be reinstated. After a 13 month adventure to be reinstated on LinkedIn, I felt there would be many other bewildered and banned LinkedIn members who would need help, so I have kept the site active to help those whose life was turned upside down after their bewildering, LinkedIn banning, also known as a LinkedIn Restriction.

Over the past month to 6 weeks, my Banned by LinkedIn site started getting never seen before solicitations from new members wanting to buy or rent LinkedIn Accounts. At first, it was an occasional post so I just removed the Topic because the premise seemed so ridiculous. But then, the topic posts to buy or sell LinkedIn Accounts began accelerating to 5 or more per day and I had to change posting rules to no posts could be posted without ADM's approval.

I think I have connected the dots after reading this article about North Korea using LinkedIn to steal massive amounts of money through financial crimes using LinkedIn Profiles to create trust.

 Here is an excerpt from the above article....

Understanding the DMM Bitcoin hack

According to the authorities’ statement, the DMM Bitcoin breach stemmed from a well-coordinated social engineering scheme targeting employees of Ginco, a Japanese crypto wallet software firm.

In March, a North Korean operative posing as a recruiter on LinkedIn contacted a Ginco employee. The attacker shared a malicious Python script disguised as a pre-employment test hosted on a GitHub page.

Unaware of the risk, the employee copied the script to their personal GitHub account, inadvertently granting the hacker access to sensitive session cookie data. This enabled the attacker to impersonate the compromised employee and infiltrate Ginco’s unencrypted communication system.

By late May, the threat actor used this foothold to manipulate a legitimate transaction request from a DMM Bitcoin employee, ultimately stealing 4,502.9 BTC, valued at $305 million.
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It appears North Korea, and others who engage in financial crimes, are attempting to purchase or rent LinkedIn Accounts for the purpose of committing future financial crimes.

LinkedIn is being targeted by financial scammers using ads to convince LinkedIn Members to sell or rent their LinkedIn profiles and the ads are proliferating by the day on Facebook. 

ALL businesses with LinkedIn Accounts should notify their employees of what is going on. Maybe eventually, Facebook will agree to stop allowing these types of accounts to proliferate.

My attempt to get the above Facebook Profile that is luring LinkedIn members to sell or rent their Profile removed, was rejected, TWICE!

To be clear, there have been several dozen proxies trying to buy or rent LinkedIn Accounts on Banned by LinkedIn, but they were are all removed. 

I believe this is the first internet article exposing the connection between unknown proxies advertising the buying or renting of LinkedIn Accounts, with North Korea and others possibly funding the venture for the purpose of using the purchased or rented Linked Accounts to assist in the committing of financial crimes. 

When I tried to post my newly discovered intel on my Facebook site, Facebook immediately removed the topic within a minute's time and accused me of spreading spam and trying to trick people to go to an off Facebook site. 

Facebook most likely auto removed my post because the link I provided had crypto in the URL.

I have of course appealed the false Facebook accusation since it taints my Facebook profile record. 

 

What was further frustrating is I had to choose one reason from several pre-selected reasons for my appeal. It turns out 2 of the pre-selected reasons applied equally, What kind of manipulative bs is that? I had to choose my appeal response between "this was a link to a legitimate story", and "this was important information to share" (paraphrasing as I forgot to frame grab my choices), when both reasons equally applied. 

 

With thanks to DailyPUMA RSS feed that led me to the article by Oluwapelumi Adejumo, Dec. 24, 2024 at 9:14 am UTC.

 

 

 

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