I didn't know LinkedIn limited connections to anyone before. Is this something based on newer accounts or accounts without a certain number of connects? I've always been able to 'connect' to anyone even outside of my network.
The number of people I've never heard of who manage to send me an invite to connect... It's not exactly hard to answer "do you know this person" untruthfully.
Flag that account and their spam protection should kick in if enough other people are getting the same kind of unsolicited and unknown connection requests.
If you use your phone to search for the person (using a browser, not the app), you just get a connect option for everyone, regardless of the separation. The button just says "invite to connect", no warning about knowing them or not.
Slight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.
You can also use this system to find the name of anyone whose LinkedIn profile says private instead of their name.
Find someone who instead of a name has Private, eg http://linkd.in/T0BzOz - then copy their view?id, eg. 196011057 and enter it after the viewee?id here - http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile view=&vieweeID=196011057&context=nus. Then alakazam, you can see their name. Also, the auth type and auth token in the url will change as well when you click on the 'View Profile' button within the new view.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 167 ms ] threadSlight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.
Find someone who instead of a name has Private, eg http://linkd.in/T0BzOz - then copy their view?id, eg. 196011057 and enter it after the viewee?id here - http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile view=&vieweeID=196011057&context=nus. Then alakazam, you can see their name. Also, the auth type and auth token in the url will change as well when you click on the 'View Profile' button within the new view.
I'm guessing linkedin fixed the problem?
I just did a company search for Register.com, opened their page, click to see employees and every single one of them has a 'Connect' button.
What's the hack?