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Comment · 2 years ago
There's a lot of scams and catfishes in this world but more so in the tech industry. This is another case of fake it till you make it, I suppose.

Question is would you go this far to market your product?

Comment · 2 years ago
unless you mean the satire reviews which is obviously a joke but yeah that can easily be removed.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are no reviews on the page..
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you think this is a viable business model? If, so who is the ideal target audience?
Comment · 3 years ago
I violated their brand policy. I’m assuming it’s because of the domain name.

I also say assume because I’m not even 100% certain.

It’s a bit scary though cause in their TOS they can just remove your profile and tell you to F off with no warning or explanation like they did to me…

Comment · 3 years ago
Well, I did not know that. I didn’t think mentioning LinkedIn as part of my keyword would be some type of infringement as there are other webpages with the same content.

However, I would’ve changed the domain name or even took down the site if they requested me to. They did not have to permanently suspend my account, which is unlawful and unwarranted.

Comment · 3 years ago
How did I mess around to find out? I did not know I did anything malicious, intentionally. Do you think I would put my full name, photo of myself, my about story and a link to my LinkedIn profile if I were doing something shady?

Did you even read my story?

I clearly explained I just offered a 3rd party service for reviewing others LinkedIn profiles which is not illegal or against their terms. There is a whole industry dedicated to this service.

The only thing I did was created a dedicated landing page for seo juice to my fiverr gig, that’s it. I’m not sure why they came at me so hard as I would’ve obliged to their request.

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