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WSJ LinkedIn Makes Federal Case Out of Fake Accounts By Danny Yadron blogs.wsj.com AP LinkedIn, the business-focused social network, charged in a federal civil lawsuit that 10 unnamed people had created thousands of fake accounts that can be used to pass on malicious computer code or puff up users’ profiles. In a suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, LinkedIn said it had deleted the abusive accounts and traced them to an Amazon Web Services account. It’s asking the cloud computing giant to hand over the names of the owners of the web-services accounts. Amazon Web Services offers computing power for rent via the Internet. An Amazon spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. LinkedIn accuses the unnamed people of violating its user agreement by creating multiple fake accounts that stole data from legitimate LinkedIn profiles through a method called scraping. Fake accounts create problems for social networks such as LinkedIn and Twitter TWTR -7.29%. For one, they can weaken the credibility of the network if users start to doubt the authenticity of profiles. They can also cause advertisers to question the rates they pay to reach a certain number of users. “It undermines the integrity and effectiveness of LinkedIn’s platform in several ways,” the court documents say. “The world’s professionals utilize LinkedIn with the expectation that its contents are accurate and its user profiles legitimate.” It’s not clear from the filing what the people planned to do with the fake online resumes, and a LinkedIn spokesman declined to comment. There is no evidence that the fake-account creators tried to break into LinkedIn’s systems.

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