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Oh, I forgot c), which is usually just a raw, unadorned "I'd like to add you to my professional network." from random recruiter scum. Kinda of a b) really, but without the work of having to have a position available...

Interesting,

In LinkedIn I've been contacted by recruiters from Amazon, Google, Toshiba and Voyer International and all of them have been quite professional.

My favorite is when they CALL ME AT WORK to network at me, especially since I specifically say "don't call" on my LI profile.

I don't doubt the abundance of bad behaviors. I was just doing a literal parse of your logic.

There actually really wasn't any logic in that statement.

I'm not saying "I have this message from a recruiter, therefore all recruiters are scum." It's a reminder.