I recently had a person using my photo and work experience to get side gigs on Upwork. A customer of theirs contacted me directly for help which is how I found out about it.
Upwork removed the profile after some prodding. I feel like I should report identity theft to the police or something but I don't know if it's worth the bother?
Reporting it is only worth it to have a paper trail in case the identity theft then brings you into legal trouble such as taking out credit in your name, etc. If they’re only using publicly-available info I wouldn’t bother.
Available for anyone to take and utilize. I have a (hidden) suspicion that a greater proportion of LinkedIn's reported "active users" are, in fact, a group of people with these profile images and fraudulent profiles.
I think part of it is Upwork let's you just point a new profile at ANY LinkedIn profile and import it. I suspect they just pointed it at mine and were off to the races.
Upwork removed the profile after some prodding. I feel like I should report identity theft to the police or something but I don't know if it's worth the bother?
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