LinkedIn
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LinkedIn feels with the right to deliberately restrict your account with the excuse that: We take proactive actions to protect you when we detect potential unauthorized access or other activity that doesn't comply with our policies. We first need to verify your identity to ensure your account safety.

To regain access to your account, please submit a government-issued ID.

LinkedIn should just notify me to please verify if I logged in from a certain area or another, not just flat out restrict and disable the account in the name of safety My recent 3 posts were children planting trees all over the world and conducting cleanups which is what our nonprofit does. Therefore, it can't be anything that doesn't comply with their policies. Because if showing photos of people planting trees is not complying with their policies, they are in infringing freedom of expression positively where our eco soldiers show by example all the positive things that we can do as humans to protect our Planet.

They would be dealt with an Action Class Lawsuit if they continue to disable my account as often as they wish without valid merit. This is the 3rd time they do this.

Then they ask you to verify numerous times to identify yourself by uploading your DL, then they make you forcefully agree that you are ok with them sharing your personal information and google data account with 3rd parties. Which I consider black mail to make you do all these things just to get your LinkedIn in account active again.

People need to know this is not normal or ethical business practice. And if someone truly is being hacked or if they notice unauthorized sign in, then LinkedIn should notify the user via email only to confirm or deny of such suspicious login, not just flat out temporarily restrict the account as they do. This must stop!

Enough is enough.

The first time they did this, they flat out canceled my account with 17,000 plus professional connections.

No social media should have the right to do this to your career that you put so much time and effort to build.

Its almost like you owning your physical business and LinkedIn coming to shut it down just because they feel like it, and then there is no one and nowhere to complain about LinkedIn for them to pay for the financial losses they made you incur for being unable to speak to current clients in way that you used to. Or, meet new clients and business collaborations in the way you need to.

And last, but not the least wipe out all the endorsements and success you had achieved in over a decade of hard work, wipe out the accurate way in which the market should view you, with the right deserved popularity you earned, and the excellent reputation that you earned, as a person, and for your brand.

This deliberate continued sabotage by LinkedIn on targeted individuals must stop.

My name is Amir Mahdi Zhalefar, and I am writing to you with a matter of extreme urgency regarding my LinkedIn account.

It has come to my attention that unauthorized individuals have gained access to my account, which is associated with the email address amirmahdizhalefar@***.ac.ir. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to access my account, which is causing significant concern for me.

To address this critical issue, I kindly request your immediate assistance in the following steps:

1.

**Restore Email Address**: I urge you to restore the email address associated with my account to amirmahdizhalefar@***.ac.ir. This action is crucial for me to regain access to my account and secure it against further unauthorized access.

2. **Enable Two-Factor Authentication**: I request that two-factor authentication be enabled on my account using the phone number +989218****59. This additional security measure is essential for protecting my account against unauthorized access and ensuring the safety of my personal information.

3.

**Monitor Account Activity**: I earnestly ask for a thorough review of my account activity to identify any unauthorized actions that may have occurred.

This review will provide me with a clearer understanding of the extent of the breach and enable me to take further steps to secure my account.

I understand the importance of taking swift action to address this issue and am committed to working closely with you to resolve it. Your prompt assistance in these matters is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Warm regards,

Amir Mahdi Zhalefar

amirmahdizhalefar.iasbs.ac.ir

It's been a month. I've had over a hundred emails back and forth with Linkedin support.

I have simply asked why I was locked out of my account on both my laptop and cell phone, if I violated terms what were those terms that I violated, I've requested several times for my content on the website which I was never given a chance to get, and I repeatedly requested to have my business pages pulled as well because I do not want any of my content on their website. For the businesses they told me I'm not the owner. I am the only person who is admin privilege and they are both my businesses. But for all of it they request a government ID which I refuse to give them especially because they will not tell me what they're doing with it or why they are requesting it.

I strongly believe it is because of my conservative leanings but I have no evidence of anything because they just keep asking for my government ID.

I posted videos (fact-checked) that countered daily cable news stories. They locked me out of my personal and business accounts and tried to make me provide government ID to regain access. I've emailed ten times and still have received no answers. They only said they permanently deleted my account (I had been trying to extract my content from the platform, but that request wasn't acknowledged).

I was also trying to close my two business pages, which they said they couldn't do, and that I would have to reactivate my account (again by providing government ID) to remove those accounts from the platform.

They also stopped responding to this matter. Coincidentally, this all happened a day after my posts began to gain traction on their website.

To Whom it May Concern,

I was removed from Linkedin due to my commentary regarding the events STILL unfolding in Gaza.

You will have a record of my comments.

None are racially or religiously motivated and the state the facts about what has gone on since the early 1900s with an occasional reference to Theodor Herzls proposition for a Jewish State.

Whilst some may not like it, everything I have ever stated on the Linkedin Platform is factual, as much as people like to dance around fact.

Israel have been found to be plausibly committing a Genocide and now found to be administering an Apartheid State as more as occupation of the West Bank is accelerating.

Linkedin is a professional platform. Your members are expected to be honest, courageous and offer insight.

I believe this describes every post I have made.

It is those 3 traits that I just mentioned which Linkedin should be coveting.

I would ask that you review reinstating my membership and offer me its reinstatement.

Whilst this particular website is for being pissed, I am not PISSED just incredibly sad to understand that a platform for professional voices, voices that come from people with an innate ability to review information and draw conclusions and make determinations, free of emotion and other influences better than most. And now Linkedin, for whatever reason, seek to crush this innate spirit of the Professional.

I look for to your review of my commentary and indeed your take on my commentary and offer feedback.

Upon reading my words if you feel uncomfortable just swap out select words for Nazi Germany and then see if you give a polite nod.

Thank you.

I found that I was being charged on my credit card for a Premium Subscription. I wrote to caseresponse at linkedin.com on July 29, 2024: I do not recall ever activating a free trial Premium Career Subscription on December 28, 2023. If I had, I would have received an email to that effect at the time, but there is no such email. Please refund all payments that were taken from my account.

Yehoshua Sivan

caseresponse at linkedin.com wrote back on July 30, 2024:

After a thorough review of your account, we found attempts to charge for the Premium Career Subscription. However, we want to reassure you that your account has not been charged.

I replied:

That's not correct! I was charged the equivalent of $28 (ILS 104.99) on January 28, 2024, February 28, 2024, March 28, 2024, April 28, 2024, May 28, 2024, and June 28, 2024. Please explain why I was charged at all and please reimburse me.

caseresponse at linkedin.com responded on July 30, 2024:

I sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding regarding the charges on your account. Upon reviewing your account, we confirmed that the charges in question were indeed for the Premium Career Subscription renewal (Monthly). Additionally, we have noticed charge attempts made in the past few days. Unfortunately, we cannot issue you a refund for the charges you mentioned. This is based on the billing date and the renewal terms you agreed to when you upgraded. This policy states that all LinkedIn Premium subscriptions may be refundable within 7 days from the date the subscription is charged, without premium usage.

I replied:

Your reply is quite inadequate. If I upgraded, then you must have sent me confirmation of the upgrade. I have no such record.

You wrote:

This is based on the billing date and the renewal terms you agreed to when you upgraded.

Please send me a copy of the billing terms to which I agreed.

caseresponse at linkedin.com replied on August 1, 2024:

Although you claimed you have no trace of applying for a free trial, our purchase history shows that the activation of the free trial was made on December 28, 2023. Unfortunately, we do not have access to the purchase confirmations as they are only sent to the member.

I replied:

You keep ignoring the content of my letters!

You wrote as follows:

When you applied for the free trial on December 28, 2023, you were informed about the terms and conditions at the time of signing up for a Premium Subscription on our desktop site. We also sent you a reminder about the end of your trial and the upcoming charge to your credit card seven days prior to the auto-renewal via email.

I did not apply for a free trial, I have no trace of being informed of the terms and conditions, I did not receive a reminder of the end of the trial and the upcoming charge.

Please respond specifically to these issues, and don't just brush me off with vague reassurances about being happy to assist me etc.

Just do it!

If LinkedIn claims that they sent this information via email, they should have copies of all the letters on my file. As I have no such record, I can only assume that they reactivated a previous Premium Subscription which I successfully cancelled several years ago.

I have been trying to make an account with LinkedIn for 4 months I've used different emails I've used my main email I've sent them my license they sent me an email saying my license wasn't valid when it's perfectly good what's the deal and I only received one email out of multiple times trying to make an account soon as I make the account I think pops up it says access to your account has been temporarily restricted because they need to verify my identity they only want my ID and I've sent them that they said it wasn't valid then I try to send a message to support and where I place my email it pops up under it says you already have an account with this email duh I'm not trying to make an account trying to send an email to support I don't see why people are even using LinkedIn. Why has everything become so difficult to use so difficult to get support and the support you do get can't understand you and puts the wrong things on your account z then you have to spend more time trying to unlock it it is almost a waste of time