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Zeyi Yang reports that LinkedIn users are being scammed out of millions of dollars by fake connections posing as graduates of prestigious universities and employees at top tech companies. Scammers claim affiliation with prestigious schools and companies to boost their credibility before connecting with other users, building a relationship, and laying a financial trap. Since last year, such activities have been steadily on the rise on LinkedIn, following years of proliferation on other social media platforms and dating apps. In the second half of 2021, LinkedIn removed 7% more profiles because of fraudulent identities than in the six months before that, according to Oscar Rodriguez, LinkedIn's senior director of trust, privacy, and equity. By now, victims have lost millions of dollars through scams that originated on the platform. This summer, the FBI announced it would investigate these scams and work with victims to identify the bad actors and disable their accounts, even though the financial losses are almost impossible to recover.