The growing trend of impersonation on LinkedIn

This platform is supposed to be one of the most trusted place to connect with Professionals and landing dream jobs. I am as well concerned with this issue because I almost fell victim of two employment frauds and if not for proper scrutiny of the offers I would have been duped. But with strict security measures like profile verification (for companies and important individuals), strict compliance of profile pictures upload, OCR (Optical Character Recognition); this may be implemented to eleminate identical profile pictures. There are loads of measures that can be taken to eliminate fraudulent activities only if the Linkedin Organisation is interested in maintaining or increasing the trust level of users on the platform. Greedy minds are more succeptible of be defrauded. Let us all be wary of Scammers as well.

I very much agree with you and have been almost a victim of inter personification thinking then that the person talking to me was the supposed minister. But when she demanded for some dollars from me to embark on what I considered a legislate cause and projected an alternative arrangement and she vehemently opposed that I caught win that she might not be who she claimed she is. But can fraud and or impersonation end on earth even with all due vigilance? No I don't think so, therefore the individual should be careful to ward of this evil. In the process some still may be deceived done if the time but I think it is possible to abound being deceived even once

Just as there are more than one Sanni Kazeem in the Real World there will be instances of having more than one person having same name. The reasonable advise is to thread carefully on jnvites that are accepted just as one would do on any social media platform.

An easy fix is for LinkedIn to "verify" the identity of public figures and tag their profiles as "Verified" just the way it is on Twitter. You can't stop people from creating fake accounts but you can educate users on how to identify "verified" or legitimate accounts. Just the way users are asked to look out for the green padlock in URLs to confirm that a website is secure and that the SSL certificate was signed by an approved Certificate Authority.

Identity and Access Management is the Solution