linkedin scams

It wasn’t a good day for chicken Sales Manager Pat Gomez last July when he discovered someone had created a fake LinkedIn profile of him.   Gomez says he quickly learned the fake Pat Gomez was also using his profile to reach out to customers and set up deals. The Gomez imposter was trying to scam one customer in...

NBC 5 Investigates found an automated scammer stealing someone’s identity on a popular social media business site, but this time messing with the wrong person and the wrong company. NBC 5’s Rob Stafford reports.