Ask HN: Angel List and fake profiles / investors
Hey guys,
I recently added my startup on Angel List and I am getting pitches from some investors, which is all good.
However, those investors do not look very real. All of them (that contacted me so far), had a free email account (gmail, gmx or yahoo) and had some companies in their linkedin profiles / twitter profiles that do not look real. In a few of them it looks like a fake identity was created only to be used on Angel List.
Have you guys noticed it before?
Am I being too paranoid?
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadYou should be able to find a decent amount of hits by simply googling their name and their respected companies.
Should I post names here for people to take a look? I also noticed that thet were doing a bunch of introductions there.