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LinkedIn: the new playground for fake profiles and economic espionage

The alarm was announced from France. In mid-summer, a Chinese technology company approached several young startup employees on the LinkedIn professional network, inviting them to apply for a generous job offer. “I received a connection request from an executive at this company who said he was interested in my profile. We exchanged messages and then I had to answer a few questions about my day job and my areas of expertise.says Pierre*, IT developer at Next40.

Just a week later, sharing the news over drinks with one of his colleagues and a friend who works at Exotec, an industrial unicorn, he discovers that they have all been contacted by the same person. “I’m the only one of us who had a preliminary phone interview of about fifteen minutes. I wanted to go somewhere else for several months.”trusts…

Source: Le Figaro

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