At LinkedIn, we don't tolerate inappropriate activities or behavior such as spam, harassment, scams, and misinformation. Our Professional Community Policies outline acceptable and unacceptable activities and provide you guidance for reporting spam, inappropriate, or abusive content.
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"Fake account" means someone creates a phony profile or impersonates another person.
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"Spam" means someone advertises a product for monetary gain or posts irrelevant content for high visibility.
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"Scam" means someone asks for personal information or money or posts suspicious links.
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"Misinformation" means you believe that it's presenting false information as if it were true.
When you report another member's content, they won't be notified who reported them, and you should no longer see the content or conversation that you reported in your feed or messaging inbox. We may review the reported content or conversation to take additional measures like warning or suspending the author if the content is in violation of our Terms of Service. In some cases, you’ll receive more information on the outcome via email. Manage the updates you receive about your reported content from your Settings.
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Click
Messaging icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. -
Select the message from the list on the left rail.
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Click the
More icon in the top right of your conversation thread and select Report this conversation. -
Select the applicable reason from the Why are you reporting this? menu and follow the on-screen instructions.
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Click Submit to proceed with reporting the conversation, or Back to review your options.
Note: You can also report a conversation if you receive an automated warning from LinkedIn within a conversation thread. Learn more about automated in-conversation warnings. You may have the option to block the member after you report them. Once the member is blocked, you'll no longer see each other's profiles, updates, and messages.
Learn more about blocking a member on LinkedIn. If you're connected to the member, you'll have the option to remove them as a connection. You can also learn more about reporting a member from a message with multiple recipients.
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Click the
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Click
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Select the applicable reason from the Why are you reporting this? pop-up window and follow the on-screen instructions.
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Click Submit to proceed with reporting the post, or Back to review your options.
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Click the
More icon in the upper-right corner of the profile video when viewing it. -
Click Report.
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Select the applicable reason from the Why are you reporting this? pop-up window and follow the on screen instructions.
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Click Submit to proceed with reporting the post, or Back to review your options.
Note: The profile video will be gradually rolled out to all LinkedIn members and may not be available at this time.
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Click the
My Network icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage. -
Click Ignore to remove the invitation without accepting it.
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Click I don't know this person in the pop-up window in the bottom left corner of your screen.
Reporting someone you don’t know will prevent that member from sending you further invitations to connect. It also provides feedback we may need to restrict the sender's account.
Learn more about accepting or ignoring invitations.
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Navigate to the profile you wish to report.
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Click the
More icon and select Report/Block. -
Select the appropriate action from the What do you want to do? Pop-up window and follow onscreen instructions.
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Click Submit to proceed with reporting the update, or Back to review your options.
All members have the ability to permanently hide updates they find inappropriate by clicking Hide on the upper right hand corner of the update. This will also hide all future updates posted by this connection.
Learn more about showing or hiding updates from your connections.
For more information, refer to our User Agreement.
Report an update as spam, inappropriate or offensive:
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Tap the
More icon to the right of the update. -
Tap Report this post.
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Select the applicable reason from the Why are you reporting this? pop-up.
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Tap Submit to proceed or Back to review your options.
Report a conversation as spam, inappropriate, or offensive:
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Tap the
Messaging icon in the upper right corner your LinkedIn Lite homepage. -
Tap and select the message you want to report from the messages list.
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Tap the
More icon in the upper right corner of your conversation thread. -
Tap Report this conversation.
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Tap the applicable reason from the Why are you reporting this? Menu.
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Tap Submit to proceed or Back to review your options.
Learn more