How to Report Fake Business Profile On LinkedIn | Pure Design Solution

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How to Report Fake Business Profile On LinkedIn
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Imagine someone owning a LinkedIn page in your
companys name and trying to take your visitors
to a fake site or give information thats
incorrect. It can be one the worst blow to your
brand credibility and surprisingly this is
getting very common. LinkedIn is one of the
largest professional networks in the world, and
clearly, it has large number of credibility
businesses on it today. Having an official
LinkedIn page adds to your brands value and in
most cases leaves a positive mark in the mind of
your visitors. So I am sure you wouldnt want
someone else to own your companys Linkedin
page. We recently faced a similar situation with
one of our clients whose LinkedIn company page
was stolen by an unknown person, taking the
visitors to a fake business site. When
approached, this person asked for a high
compensation to release the page. Indeed its a
big headache but more importantly it has affected
our clients Google rankings and online business
credibility. One of the most common ways to
perform large-scale data harvesting attack is the
use of fake profiles, where the malicious user
presents himself as an important person in
profile or public eyes. His main motive is to
steal confidential information and ask for
ransom. Sadly, LinkedIn is not immune to or
protected against this disturbing phenomenon. I
have seen so many people asking questions about
how to report fake business profile to LinkedIn?
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• According to our research, there are various
  solutions to report an issues to LinkedIn.
• Report The Fake Profile
• You can flag inappropriate or fake profiles on
  LinkedIn (i.e. profiles that contain profanity,
  empty profiles with fake names, or profiles that
  are impersonating public figures).
• To Report a file
• Sign up on LinkedIn
• Click the More icon on the members profile.
• Click Report/Block.
• Select Report this profile in the What do you
  want to do? Pop-up window.
• Select the applicable reason for flagging the
  profile in the Tell us a little more pop-up
  window.
• Click Submit proceed or Back to review your
  options.

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• Tweet On LinkedIn Twitter Account
• You can follow these simple steps
• Go to the Twitter official website.
• Login through your account.
• Search the LinkedIn Help page.
• Tweet whatever your issues are.
• Submit a Support Case to the LinkedIn
• If you are looking for a support from LinkedIn
  for any issue, first of all you must be signed in
  to your LinkedIn account in order to contact
  LinkedIn.
• To submit a support case
• Click Contact us at the bottom of the page.
• Select Get help from us from the available
  options. You can also click

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  of community knowledge
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  make your experience better
• Type a brief description of your issue or
  question and review the suggested Help Center
  articles.
• If you dont find an answer to your question,
  click Next and answer all questions with an  next
  to them at the bottom of the page. Filling out
  these required fields will help us assist you
  better.
• You can add a screenshot or supporting
  documentation that we can reference for
  troubleshooting by clicking Add an attachment.
• Click Submit. One of our Customer Service
  representatives will reply to you as quickly as
  possible.

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These are the possible solutions through which
you can report a fake business profile on
LinkedIn. I have seen many other companies who
have ignored such threats and later on paid a
high price for it, which also affected their
business credibility badly. If you are still
stuck with these issues and are not been able to
recover your LinkedIn account, contact us at Pure
Design Solution. I believe Online Brand
Management should be taken seriously. Drop a line
in the message box and we will be happy to help
you.
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