LinkedIn CSR Program Donation Development Scam

Received this scam:

"Greetings to you My Dear!

All the entire LinkedIn board departments are here to inform you that you have been chosen as our branch representative in your country to distribute total sum of $500,000 US Dollars, for Palliative Empowerment in order to help the poor people in your city like, Disabled people, The homeless, Orphanages, schools, and Generals’ Hospitals in your country for them to benefit from our Corporate Social Responsibilities of the company in this year. We want you to distribute 60% of the money to those people in the list, with the LinkedIn Empowerment and Mobilization Donation funds provided to you, and we are offering you 40% of the total money for your kindness on this work to do any business of your choice. And after receiving the money make sure that you follow our instructions carefully.

The idea of this Empowerment Development Program is that the company wants to contribute its quota towards building future entrepreneurs and eradicating poverty in several countries in the world so that in the next 10 years from now. There will be a notable increase in wealth and employment created by those entrepreneurs and beneficiaries around the world. This is a yearly program which falls within the Corporate Social Responsibilities of the company to give back to the society and reduce poverty.

Please be informed that you shall receive the fund through (Ziraat Bank) to your Bank account in your country, due to some bureaucratic perturbation/difficulties surrounding a direct Home delivery of the said fund amount into your Home address in your country. Therefore the LinkedIn Team Board Financial Department has conducted a transfer reconciliation procedure to transfer the Empowerment donation fund to you as the original selected one of the donations. The Bank to Bank Swift transfer payment system is the Easiest way to transfer the fund into your bank account in your country through MT-103 Swift transfer Credit, with all the related documents to back up your funds while depositing it into your personal bank account in your locality.

The funds shall be officially transfer to your bank Account through MT-103 Swift direct money transfer, which shall keep it free from any hitches as it shall be covered by the America Remittance Immunities (A.R.I), based on the above approval and in accordance with our procedures for the release of funds to the beneficiaries. TO THIS EFFECT, WE REQUIRE URGENTLY CERTAIN DOCUMENT WHICH YOU MUST PROVIDE IN ORDER TO MAKE YOUR CLAIM TOTALLY LEGAL, ACCORDING TO THE RELEVANT STATUS; Therefore you are hereby requested to complete the below details without any mistake and return it back to us immediately.

You are required to expeditiously contact the Payment Department via this email (Infocustomer@consultant.com) for your qualification documents and processes of receiving the fund. Kindly Contact Mr. Reid Hoffman for More Direction Call Number: 16173403874

A)-SEND YOUR DETAILS BELOW FOR YOUR QUALIFICATION DOCUMENT

1-Your Full Name

2-Your Address:

3-Your S*x:

4-Your Age:

5-Your State:

6-Your Country:

7-Your E-mail Id :

8-Your Occupation:

9-Your What Sapp Number:

10-Your Telephone Number:

11-Your Identity Proof ID:

(B)- BANK DETAILS BELOW FOR YOUR PAYMENT

1- Your Bank Name:

2-Your Account Holder Name:

3-Your Account Number:

4- Your Bank Swift Code:

5- Your Bank Branch:

6- Your Passport Photo:

You are by all means advised to keep this whole information confidential until you have collected your donation, this is to avoid double and Unqualified claims, due to Beneficiaries informing Third parties on cash grant donation. On behalf of the Board, kindly accept our warmest Congratulations."

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Because of that, my LinkedIn account has been restricted...I can't have access to linkedin anymore...please help me...it was this week 24th August 2021

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Please am from Ghana, I've received such message through my email...I've given my account number to them already...what should I do to avoid any harm?

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Hello there please I've received this scam message on my phone and they demanding for my Bank Swift number

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I got this what I do...

"Greetings to you my Dear!

We have received your mail. We are writing to you this letter from LinkedIn Board Department.

Please find the Attachment below download it and go through it Very well.

After reading this mail kindly reply back to us immediately.

Qualification Approval.

Best Regards

Mr.Reid Hoffman

Foreign Service Manager

V9J5 3R Chicago, Illinois, United States

Call On Whatsapp 16205060599

Whats-App 34611369253

Tele 16205060599

E-mail:(info.linkedIn@consultant.com)

Address: 525 W Monroe St #200, Chicago, IL 60661, USA"

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I am from Ghana and I received such messages too in my email account on 2nd February 2019... But I had to forget about it and I accidentally saw it today 18th September 2020 still in my account. So I decided to fill the first request and send it to them even though I was suspecting is weird... Thankfully they replied and were requesting my bank details and emphasizing it should be accurate... I quickly came online to check and lo that was a big scam

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I just receive same email yestarday

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I have received same email on Friday.

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"From: www.LinkedIn.com <Infocustomer@consultant.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 16:48

Subject: LinkedIn Job Approval Qualification.

Greetings to you my Dear!

We have received your mail. We are writing to you this letter from LinkedIn Board Department.

Please find the Attachment below download it and go through it Very well.

After reading this mail kindly reply back to us immediately.

LinkedIn Job Approval Qualification.

Best Regards

Mr.Reid Hoffman

Foreign Service Manager

Address: 525 W Monroe St #200, Chicago, IL 60661, USA

V9J5 3R Chicago, Illinois, United States

Whats-App 14132474758

Tele 14132474758

E-mail:Infocustomer@consultant.com"

Here is another scam.

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I just received such an email but didn't share any information by now.

Please consider the following text:

"(Your Profile was approved by Mr. Jeff Weiner, the C.E.O of LinkedIn (Founder & App Chief Executive Officer) and you were selected alongside other 20 lucky International recipients of the donation from the entire LinkedIn Team. You are required to expeditiously contact the Payment Department via this email

(info.linkedIn@consultant.com) for your qualification documents and processes of receiving the money.For your confirmation contact

Mr. Reid Hoffman. Call-Number 14132474758

Thanking you

Souleymane"

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How can I protect my self if I had already responded to the scam

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"Greetings to you my Dear!

We have received your mail. We are writing to you this letter from LinkedIn

Board Department.

Please find the Attachment below download it and go through it Very well.

After reading this mail kindly reply back to us immediately.

LinkedIn Job Approval Qualification.

Best Regards

Mr.Reid Hoffman

Foreign Service Manager

Address: 525 W Monroe St #200, Chicago, IL 60661, USA

V9J5 3R Chicago, Illinois, United States

Whats-App 14132474758

Tele 14132474758

E-mail: info_linkedin@consultant.com"

Here is another scam.

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"From: www.LinkedIn.com <Infocustomer@consultant.com>

Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 2:09 PM

Subject: LinkedIn Job Approval Qualification.

Attachment: LinkedIn CSR Program Donation Development!.docx (79 KB)

Greetings to you my Dear!

We have received your mail. We are writing to you this letter from LinkedIn Board Department.

Please find the Attachment below download it and go through it Very well.

After reading this mail kindly reply back to us immediately.

LinkedIn Job Approval Qualification.

Best Regards

Mr.Reid Hoffman

Foreign Service Manager

Address: 525 W Monroe St #200, Chicago, IL 60661, USA

V9J5 3R Chicago, Illinois, United States

Whats-App 14132474758

Tele 14132474758

E-mail:Infocustomer@consultant.com

Greetings to you My Dear!

All the entire LinkedIn Board wish to inform you that we have agreed to make a cash donation of $500,000 Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars to the less privileged and disabled in your country. The donation will be made in order to help the poor people in your country, the homeless, Orphanages and schools to benefit from the Corporate Social Responsibilities of the company. Your LinkedIn Profile was selected through our LinkedIn website system. We want you to distribute 60% of the money to Orphanages, schools, generals’ hospitals and the homeless in your city. For your kindness on this charitable work, we are offering you 40% of the total money for any business of your choice. After receiving the money make sure that you follow our instructions carefully.

However, I know this message may come to you as a surprise, please consider this with all seriousness as I solicit your assistance in the most polite manner. Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in this year's CSR program, and your country is not the only country that is benefiting from this donation, as other beneficiaries have been chosen from several countries. The idea of this donation is that the company, want to contribute its quota towards building future entrepreneurs and eradicating poverty in several countries of the world, 10 years from now. There will be notable increase in wealth and employment created by those entrepreneurs and beneficiaries around the world; this is a yearly program which falls within the Corporate Social Responsibilities of the company to give back to the society.

Your Profile was approved by Mr. Jeff Weiner, the C.E.O of LinkedIn (Founder & App Chief Executive Officer) and you were selected alongside other 20 lucky International recipients of the donation from the entire LinkedIn Team. You are required to expeditiously contact the Payment Department via this email (Infocustomer@consultant.com) for your qualification documents and processes of receiving the money.

Kindly Contact Mr. Reid Hoffman for More Direction Call-Number 14132474758

SEND YOUR DETAILS BELOW FOR YOUR PAYMENT:

Full Name

Address:

S*x:

Age:

State:

Country:

E-mail Id :

Occupation:

WhatsApp Number:

Telephone Number:

Identity Proof ID:

You are by all means advised to keep this whole information confidential until you have collected your donation, this is to avoid double and Unqualified claims, due to Beneficiaries informing Third parties on cash grant donation. On behalf of the Board, kindly accept our warmest Congratulation"

Here is another scam

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This is ridiculous!

I received this exact same letter from these scammers & knew it was fake right away.

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Hi,

I received the first email via my LinkedIn profile telling me that there is a job position in my country and asking me to send my CV at Infocustumer@consultant for job description. After I send the CV, here under what I got as job description.I quickly though it smells a scam. I did the research about those kinds of promises of donation, finally I found the similar text on your website. Thank you for having posted

"Greetings to you My Dear!

All the entire LinkedIn Board wish to inform you that we have agreed to make a cash donation of $500,000 Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars to the less privileged and disabled in your country. The donation will be made in order to help the poor people in your country, the homeless, Orphanages and schools to benefit from the Corporate Social Responsibilities of the company. Your LinkedIn Profile was selected through our LinkedIn website system. We want you to distribute 60% of the money to Orphanages, schools, generals’ hospitals and the homeless in your city. For your kindness on this charitable work, we are offering you 40% of the total money for any business of your choice. After receiving the money make sure that you follow our instructions carefully.

However, I know this message may come to you as a surprise, please consider this with all seriousness as I solicit your assistance in the most polite manner. Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in this year's CSR program, and your country is not the only country that is benefiting from this donation, as other beneficiaries have been chosen from several countries. The idea of this donation is that the company, want to contribute its quota towards building future entrepreneurs and eradicating poverty in several countries of the world, 10 years from now. There will be notable increase in wealth and employment created by those entrepreneurs and beneficiaries around the world; this is a yearly program which falls within the Corporate Social Responsibilities of the company to give back to the society.

Your Profile was approved by Mr. Jeff Weiner, the C.E.O of LinkedIn (Founder & App Chief Executive Officer) and you were selected alongside other 20 lucky International recipients of the donation from the entire LinkedIn Team. You are required to expeditiously contact the Payment Department via this email (Infocustomer@consultant.com) for your qualification documents and processes of receiving the money.

Kindly Contact Mr. Reid Hoffman for More Direction Call-Number 14132474758

SEND YOUR DETAILS BELOW FOR YOUR PAYMENT:"

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