Fraud is everywhere unfortunately and will continue to wash out at an alarming rate as strong people take a stand. The future will certainly see massive disclosures as data availability spreads and gets fed into 'intelligent' technology. As with everything in life, experience is one's greatest educator and this story is no surprise to me. Is anyone aware of a public free to search site that can list these people along with the appropriate evidence?

I have direct personal experience with this as a former business partner had created a female LI profile, she was neither ugly nor non educated, and she was VP of Sales if I recall but if he is reading this, which I deduce he will, he is more than welcome to correct me. Many male folks within the industry reached out for non industry talks and he, the maintainer of this fake female LI account, ended up using this data against them for his own personal gain. Having read the comments within maybe it did start as a bare bones marketing approach but just got out of hand? Ironically today I saw the code theft article as well, that is something he also has experience with. I too have all the evidence in 'logs' that backs my claim against that person and for him there is no prison time but in this digital world he does have to live with his past choices.