Recently LinkedIn.com announced that they have now over 100 million profiles online. However, many of the 100 million profiles are probably "bots", fake profiles created by unscrupulous people for nefarious purposes. In fact, there's a special term for such fake profiles: flinkedin

Here we will go over some reasons why such fake profiles exist, what are the signs of such fake profiles, and how you can spot such fakes online. Hopefully, you will check your own profile to make sure it doesn't look fake.

While the article is written primarily for LinkedIn, most of the tips can be applied to other social networks as well.



