Re: I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn

Benny Pedersen posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 15:48:49 +0200 as excerpted:

> On August 9, 2014 3:23:41 PM Ralf <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Made my day ;-)
> 
> are gentoo users more smart then linkedin ?

Looking at the links, most of them are to

http://www.linkedin.com/blink?simpleRedirect= [long-encoded-link]

Looks to me like some spammer figured out the encoding (probably 
something simple like base64) and that the redirect wasn't linkedin-site-
limited, thus allowing them to mask whatever link they wanted and hide 
behind linkedin's formerly not too terrible reputation, tho it's surely 
dropping fast due to the spammers now.

I've gotten a few of these via email (my lists are via newsgroup via 
gmane, so entirely separate app used) as well, and the tibdixious name 
looks familiar, but this is the first I've noticed the redirect-link.

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