Fake Sites Barred From Accessing LinkedIn Servers, Says Final Judgment

Bangladesh-based websites TopSocial24 and SocialBD24, and their owner MD Raju Ahamed, are permanently barred from accessing or attempting to use LinkedIn’s website, computers, servers and data through accounts under others’ or fake names, said a final judgment on consent Tuesday (docket 5:23-cv-00110) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. LinkedIn and the defendants engaged in negotiations to resolve the fraud and breach of contract complaint, and the defendants consent to the court’s judgment in favor of LinkedIn, it said. The defendants are also permanently restrained from offering or selling LinkedIn followers likes, views, comments, connections or “other inauthentic engagement” that can be used by third parties to provide inauthentic engagement on the networking site; from marketing or advertising representations about the availability of LinkedIn followers; from circumventing technology that controls access to LinkedIn servers; and from engaging in any activity that violates LinkedIn’s user agreement, it said.