To think LinkedIn shouldn't send automatic invitations to random people

[Curleyhazel]

Over the last few days I have noticed that random people are accepting my LinkedIn 'invites'. The thing is I neither know these people nor do I wish to be connected to them. There seems to be nothing in the settings that I can turn on or off so LinkedIn continues to invite strangers to my profile and I cannot do anything about it. WTF?

Possibly scams. Have you checked your linked in profile to verify that these random strangers are added?
If not, the emails will be from scammers trying to entice you to click links. There is an article here about linked in phishing emails

Funnily enough I got one myself this morning. I do not even have a linked in account, but the person I got it from does. I do know them but very vaguely. Weird

As above, I don't have an account and didn't even know the person!

Quint, yes I clicked on the link which took me to LI and these people have indeed been added to my network .

If this continues I might be forced to close down my account, how very annoying!

The article is interesting , I will be more careful in general then but these actions and messages were actually from LI

I thought it was odd. I don't have an account or intend to get one yet I'm getting random invites.

Unbelievable 6 more people have been allegedly invited by me ( but I didn't invite them, I don't even know them) and they have accepted oh help!!

When you joined linked in, possibly ages ago, linked in would have asked you if you wanted to invite people to be your connections. If you said yes, they may have connected with your outlook address book, or your webmail, and sent invites to everybody. If these people did not have linkedin accounts, they email would have been "doormant" until they opened an account. Do you think this is what could have happened?

I have had my account for more than five years and this has never happened before. Also I did not give permission for LI to access my email details. It's all quite baffling.

Surely that defeats the whole point of Linkedin - they won't let you contact people you don't know, so why would they do it? Very odd Curley.

Exactly AJ! I have logged a call with LI let's see what they will come back with.

The person who sent me my invite I knew from a very long time ago. It came to an email address I would have known her on back then. It is a dormant email address, i.e I never use it, but just check it every now and then. So how come it emailed me some 9 or 10 years after I gave her the original email? Why now, to that address? Maybe she has just joined LI and it send it to everyone in her contacts possibly?