Being bombarded by LinkedIn emails

JohnB47

Is there any way to stop these - my Outlook spam folder records many of these "you appeared in XXX searches ...." emails. They appear to have been sent by different people.

I can block them individually but is there any way to block them all?

Thrice

https://www.linkedin.com/help/testing/answer/426/stopping-invitation-emails-to-join-linkedin?lang=en

Seems to be an option for people signed up and people not signed up to Linkedin to unsubscribe there,

donnac2558

Thank you Thrice


I am getting endless emails on two email addresses from LinkedIn! I did keep marking as the phishing scam.

JJ_Egan

Block them in your messages filter .

18cc

If they come from LinkedIn to your email address then go to LinkedIn enter your email address and click forgotten password

you will then get the password to that LinkedIn account you can sign-in and untick whatever it is that is sending you the messages or even just cancel the account

AndyPix

They are most likely not coming from linked in atall as this is a very common attack vector of Phishing scam ..


As they are already being caught by your spam filter why do you care ?


Just carry on ignoring them

Uxb

I've suddenly had a huge load of them trapped in my outlook.com spam filter for one of my email addresses
They are not coming from LinkedIn at all

JohnB47

AndyPix wrote: »

They are most likely not coming from linked in atall as this is a very common attack vector of Phishing scam ..


As they are already being caught by your spam filter why do you care ?


Just carry on ignoring them

Ahhh fair enough. So no point in blocking via LinkedIn themselves then.

I wanted to block them altogether because I regularly check my spam folder for legit emails and finding any among a welter of LinkedIn ones is becoming a pain.

Curious how I've just started to have these sent to me.Never had them in the past.

Looks like I'll just have to ignore them.

JohnB47

Just for info. for others keen to avoid the LinkedIn emails plague.

I've discovered that you can set 'rules' for how Outlook deals with incoming emails.

I've set a rule up so that any emails that have the text string "you have appeared" in the subject line are deleted. I've set up another quoting the string with a capital Y at the start, in case Outlook is fussy about that (some subject lines use "You....." others use "you..... ").

Unfortunately there isn't an option to block emails within a rule so I'm presuming the identified LinkeIN ones will go straight to the Deleted folder. Time will tell.

I'll post again here in a day or so to say if this has worked or not.