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I deleted my account a couple years ago. I used to always get emails from people who were inviting me to join. The emails were from invitations@linkedin.com but contained the name of the person in the subject. The message also contained text that looked like it was from the person:

On March 14, Person X wrote:

> To: bhelx [bhelx@example.com] > From: Person X [personx@example.com] > Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

> bhelx, > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > - PersonX

The worst thing is I would get follow up emails "Reminder about your invitation from Person X" pretty regularly. I would unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of the email but I found that it was only unsubscribing me from receiving the follow up "reminder" emails from each person I unsubscribed from. It was really frustrating. I assume Linked In was explicitly requesting permission to do this.




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