Comments on: A Case of LinkedIn Spam?

By: Ways to Make Money with Sharecash

Ways to Make Money with Sharecash — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:15:24 +0000

that Carl Doppler is only paying peanuts to his employees here in the Philippines. He completely reaps the profits while the poor employeers are compressed in very narrow and humid room.

By: Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:23:57 +0000

AU,

Just to clarify …you do not have a LinkedIn account but keep getting invite messages sent by LinkedIn on behalf of members and you want LinkedIn to quit spamming you.

Based on this technically LinkedIn is not spamming you. The issue is that members are loading your email up into their contacts list and then sending out the invitation. (For example, if you receive an email from a company that used Constant Contact as their email service, Constant Contact is only the tool being used. The sender is who’s causing you to receive an email.) LinkedIn is just the email service sending a message that was initiated by a member who likely got your email from a business card, from their email contact list, etc.

Not sure if you can stop people from sending you invitations from LinkedIn so I would recommend that you set up in your email account to send any email that includes the words “LinkedIn” to go to your junk mail folder.

Anyone else have any ideas?

By: Au

Au — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:49:46 +0000

LINKEDIN is spamming my business email, which I never use for any personal communications. That is admin@domain.com. last week I emailed LINKEDIN to be removed, although they should have not emailed me in the first place. This is their automatic response:

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LinkedIn Customer Support Message

Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn: REMOVE!

LinkedIn has received your question. A service professional will review and respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible. We apologize for any delay in responding to your inquiry as we are experiencing high inbound volume at this time. Thank you for your patience!
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There was no response to my request nor response to this ticket. Instead, days later, LINKEDIN send me a reminder to not forget that Umesh sent me an invitation and that LINKEDIN is still waiting for me to sign up!

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This is a reminder that on January 28, Umesh China sent you an invitation to become part of his or her professional network at LinkedIn.

Follow this link to accept Umesh China’s invitation.

(I removed the link)

Signing up is free and takes less than a minute.
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LINKEDIN urges me to sign up! I don’t want to! This is my business email and LINKEDIN disrespected my request to stop spamming my business email.

And here’s another message received to my other, personal email address:

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LinkedIn
This is a reminder that on January 22, ram sankar sent you an invitation to become part of his or her professional network at LinkedIn.

Follow this link to accept ram sankar’s invitation.

https://…link removed by me

Signing up is free and takes less than a minute.

On January 22, ram sankar wrote:

> To: [name@isp.net]
> From: ram sankar [ramsankar2007@gmail.com]
> Subject: ram sankar wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

> I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
>
> – ram sankar

The only way to get access to ram sankar’s professional network on LinkedIn is through the following link:

https://link removed by me
You can remove yourself from ram sankar’s network at any time.

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They are telling me that the only way to stop this spamming is to sign up (click the potentially unsafe link) to their LINKEDIN network! That is against laws, since there is no unsubscribe link in the message. I never signed up to any LINKEDIN! Now they are spamming all my email addresses with some ridiculous personal issues of some guy that I don;t know and don’t care to know!

There’s more, the email address that I “CC” to my remove request to now got spammed by the same message days later! So instead of removing my business email address, they also now are spamming my other email address!

In addition to that LINKEDIN sold me to other spammers at BADOO. Because soon after I sent an unsubscribe request to LINKEDIN, BADOO spammed my same business email address in a similar fashion.

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Gordon Shane left a message for you…
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and when I clicked on BADOO unsubscribe link (yes they do have one in their email message unlike LINKEDIN) it said I can either check their network, or, (and they DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT!!) “block all further email messages”.

I am not interested in any of LINKEDIN or any other internet ventures. If I receive one more message from LINKEDIN to my business email I will transfer this matter to an attorney who deals with spammers.

By: Former Employee

Former Employee — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:55:00 +0000

Good luck on finding him. He is a fox, and in the Philippines? I think not. I was a past employee and he makes sure nothing links to him. Look up Doppler Internet and you will see several addresses, the last one is in Merrillville Indiana (which is the address for a UPS store). The best think is to track down Dean Delisle (forwardprogress.net or on facebook dean delisle) He is Carl’s business consultant and friend. If you do find him let people know, people in Hammond and Crown point have some court papers they like to serve.

By: Glenn Gary

Glenn Gary — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:41:19 +0000

To Whom It May Concern:
I also received the same email pointing me to PMAdesk. I went through the same investigation and was concerned. I spoke with a lady that made promises that someone would call me back. Finally the sales person that I spoke to on 11/11/09 was David Goin (sp?) that signed me up and took my credit card information. He told me that Joe would call me back to set up my account within 48 hours. After two weeks I started calling them. On 11/25/09 was credit card was hit for another $199 for the month of Dec. but I had received no service in Nov. nor was my account set up yet. I called to cancel my contract and Carl Dopper got on the phone. Mr. Dopper was very charming, and sorry that they dropped the ball. He would personally see that things got done if I would give them a second chance and he would refund the Dec. payment and give me one month free.
To make a long story short, it didn't happen. David called back one day and said he was my new PMA that would be handling my account. David also made promises that did not materialize and then disappeared as quickly as the other people that were suppose to be setting me up and doing my marketing. Finally, Pat took over my account and things started to happen but before they did, she disappeared and a Karen called back and was suppose to be assisting Pat. But she asked questions that told me that she had no clue of what had been done in the past. It was then that I felt that Pat too was no longer employed by PMAdesk. I had gone through a PMA for each month that I had been with the company. Then I started getting email calling me a spammer and telling me to FU*% off. My domain name and main email address was put on spammer list so that my emails would not go through. Mr. Doppler now has control of my name on several social media sites like blog.com and wordpress and I am locked out of my own name.
He is located in the Philippines and I always get the message that sorry he has been out of town and just got back. He has companies registered in the USA but operates and funnels money out to the Philippines. None of his employees have a real office. They log onto his WAN to do their work and all of their calls go into a central system and then forwarded to their personal phones. I cannot call this a real company.
When I called to cancel the second time he tried to charm me again into letting him take my money and even lied about David and Pat not being with the company. Then he changed his story and said Pat was an older lady that got cancer and her treatments just didn’t allow her to continue doing the job. He told one lie after another and tried to place the blame on me for my marketing failure. I finally located both David and Pat and needless to say both are doing fine. David has his own social media marketing company on line and Pat is not an older lady and has never had cancer. Carl Doppler claims that he has refunded 73% of what I paid him back to my credit card but once again, it never showed up on my card. I am in the process of trying to collect information and data to file suit against him personally, PMAdesk, Forward Progress, Doppler Internet and any other companies that I can find. If you are a present or past client or employee, I would appreciate any verifiable information that you may wish to share. I already have a file full of written documentation from Doppler and others within his organization. Thank you.

By: Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:58:36 +0000

Thanks. I can use all of the help I can get.

By: gry planszowe

gry planszowe — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:11:27 +0000

I’ve shared you article on digg, well written

By: Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:11:34 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I just switched to Thesis and I’m working on a redesign. If you see the design change I’m trying different options.

By: Past Employee

Past Employee — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:34:58 +0000

Dino – Do NOT take a job with Carl Doppler. If you do remember this message 3-4 months from now.

By: Sean Nelson

Sean Nelson — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:21:36 +0000

Dino,

Good luck. I have not seen any recent activities similar to what I documented. Hopefully it was a blip.