According to FBI special agent Sean Ragan, cryptocurrency investment scammers on LinkedIn pose a “significant threat” to user safety.
FBI agent Ragan told CNBC in an interview that he believed LinkedIn has an issue with investment frauds.
He said:
“This type of fraudulent activity is significant. There are many potential victims, and there are many past and current victims.”
The Microsoft-owned social network boasts 830 million users from over 200 countries. Because these scammers are not lazy, they may appear highly convincing.
Ragan told the network:
“They are always thinking about different ways to victimize people, victimize companies. And they spend their time doing their homework, defining their goals and their strategies, and their tools and tactics that they use.”
According to Regan, the FBI has witnessed an increase in investment-related fraud. From January 2021 to March 2022, US cryptocurrency traders lost $575 million due to investment fraud, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
LinkedIn places an emphasis on business news and connections, which may provide users a false sense of security in the face of typical romance and internet frauds. According to the CNBC report, false accounts frequently pretend to be affiliated with actual and successful businesses or to represent people with “entrepreneurial spirit.”
Oscar Rodriguez, LinkedIn’s director of trust, privacy, and equity, stated that the number of scammers on the platform is growing.
“Over the last few months, we’ve seen a rise in fraudulent activity happening across the Internet, including here on LinkedIn,” Rodriguez wrote in a blog post Thursday.
“In recent months, we’ve noticed an increase in fraudulent behavior across the Internet, including here on LinkedIn,” Rodriguez said in a blog post Thursday.
According to the company, it has a track record of proactively eliminating suspicious content and accounts that it believes may lead to fraud. According to a recent company transparency report, LinkedIn have deleted over 136 million instances of spam and fraudulent content from its site by 2021. Last year, it also eliminated almost 31.6 million bogus accounts.
Rodriguez told CNBC that he would like to see more “proactive education” on the risks of using LinkedIn in the future.
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