November 13, 2025 · 2 min read

My LinkedIn stalker has finally been banned

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

I have my own personal online stalker here on LinkedIn. 🤣

>>> [ FINAL UPDATE on 14 Nov 2025, LinkedIn Trust and Support has banned the stalker, case now closed. Screencap of LinkedIn’s email response to me in my comment below] <<<

>>> [ edit 1: he’s back following me again this morning, screencap with timestamp in my comment below. ] <<<

>>> [ edit 2: LinkedIn seems to be blocking the screenshot I took this morning 15 minutes ago, of this profile once again following me, after I repeatedly blocked him. ] <<<

>>> [ edit 3: and the screenshot this morning is now viewable and unblocked, an hour or so after I noted here that it was blocked. Clearly, I have the attention of at least 1 human LinkedIn staff this morning for this thread. ] <<<

I keep blocking this “person”, and “he” keeps coming back with the exact same name and LinkedIn profile, but with a new LinkedIn profile URL and then “he” follows me again.

All of his duplicate copy & paste comments tagging other people in random posts are for obviously fake jobs.

Below are 9 of the bogus cloned LinkedIn profile URLs just in the last 4 days, which I blocked.

This has actually been going on for dozens of times, but I only started capturing the URLs on Tuesday, after blocking this user repeatedly, again and again and again.

All of the LinkedIn URLs have the exact same beginning, and only the unique identifier letters and numbers at the end are different.

(I added spaces to prevent the URL from being changed by LinkedIn auto-URL-grabber AI.)

https :// www . linkedin . com /in /williams – andrew –

and then followed by a different string of unique identifiers:

11 November 2025
https ://www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- b96244396/
https ://www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- b7a829398/
https ://www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 0a9257396/

12 November 2025
https ://www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 24a917398/
https ://www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 956a94398/
https ://www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- b45a85398/

[ edit, 13 November 2025 ]
https :// www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 577a2a391/ (6:45 AM)
https :// www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 801a83398/ (8 AM)
https :// www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 907b23391/ (5 pm)

And I have been getting pretty much daily now on LinkedIn, connection requests from users who have zero connections, and who make copy & paste comments on random threads.

FROM THE THREAD

Tom's notes 35

Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
Simon Derricutt thanks. It's bizarre. It seems like either AI, or possibly LinkedIn "testing" something offbeat.

I have reported this user profile again and again to LinkedIn, as not a real person, before blocking it. Yet the *exact same profile* pops up again *in the same day*, but with a different URL.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
Simon Derricutt thanks. It's bizarre. It seems like either AI, or possibly LinkedIn "testing" something offbeat.

I have reported this user profile again and again to LinkedIn, as not a real person, before blocking it. Yet the *exact same profile* pops up again *in the same day*, but with a different URL.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
Example of another copy & paste user profile on LinkedIn, before I blocked "him". Composite of 2 screencaps.
Zero followers or connections. Only has copy & paste comments.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Joe MaherNov 13, 2025
A couple weeks ago, LinkedIn sent me a warning which I was *not* allowed to contest or question or protest or petition, claiming that I was bullying an AI spambot / scammer here, who kept re-following me after I repeatedly blocked the obvious scammer.

So this time, I decided to take screencaps of some of the obvious spam / scam, and also record the URLs provided by LinkedIn.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
it's baaaaaack 🤣

Screencap this morning, with date and time in the lower right corner.

[ edit 1: LinkedIn seems to be blocking my screencap from my comment here ]

[ edit 2: and now the screencap is finally "unblocked" after an hour, and after my edit 1 above ... ]

New URL string:
https :// www . linkedin . com /in /williams-andrew- 577a2a391/
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
heh heh, thanks Jon Plebeian. Tomorrow I'll get back to joking around at my usual silly stuff, to (hopefully) amuse readers.

This morning however, this particular silliness of my own personal stalker is what amuses me.

This persistent stalking is absurdly surreal in its own way 🤣
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
Thanks Gerry Deagnon 😁 This is still one of my favorite memes which I've made over the years, it has so many uses ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to David BakboordNov 13, 2025
hmmmmm, here's one of my earlier group shot images 😁
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
P.S. a screencap of my post here this morning, strictly for entertainment purposes, in case this thread somehow gets "disappeared" ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ian McCoyNov 13, 2025
sure seems that way.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
Aaaaaand he's back a *second time* this morning, with yet another URL, less than 2 hours after I blocked him again earlier this morning.

https :// www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 801a83398/

Screencap, this time from my large screen monitor, so you can see he is back to copy & past spam comments to random LinkedIn users.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Aly DhanjiNov 13, 2025
interesting. My general underlying goal here is to gently nudge critical thinking in readers, usually via absurd surreal humor, contrasted with alternating to writing serious posts.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Mark DoughertyNov 13, 2025
yes, I hear many similar complaints from others ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Richard NossNov 13, 2025
yes, this is clearly intentional provocation.

And human LinkedIn staff are clearly involved in this blatant and likely *illegal* repeated provocation attempts.

Which is why I've been taking screencaps - for entertainment purposes only, of course.

Kindly note that I have these screencaps and LinkedIn URLs offline on my own computer as well.

Last time I called out a repeat scammer, *I* was the one who received a warning for "bullying".

Hey LinkedIn Help, any comment on the harassment, documented here, in this thread? It clearly violates LinkedIn legal policies.

I keep blocking this user, and this user repeatedly creates another clone profile, and follows me again.

Pretty sure this online stalking behavior is illegal in the United States.

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/professional-community-policies?trk=hc-hp-support
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Cliff SaundersNov 13, 2025
but I'm guessing that AI bots are immune to salt ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Jason BrackinNov 13, 2025
bingo. Recruiters and businesspeople don't use gmail addresses for legitimate business communications.
Zero connections and zero posts or comments is also a dead giveaway.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Mark JacobsenNov 13, 2025
thanks, but I don't feel any reason to hide ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Cliff SaundersNov 13, 2025
usually I can befuddle the AI bots with absurd surreal disinformation humor, which is *obvious* to humans, but not so much to AI bots.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomkirkman_visual-update-in-my-ongoing-series-about-activity-7328696110577831936-HeJU
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ray FreudenbergNov 13, 2025
heh heh thanks, that made me laugh 😆
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ray FreudenbergNov 13, 2025
heh heh thanks, that made me laugh 😆
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Jon ArnupNov 13, 2025
yep, with zero connections and an awesome profile of 30 years experience 🤣
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Jon ArnupNov 13, 2025
yep, with zero connections and an awesome profile of 30 years experience 🤣
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ron DarlingNov 13, 2025
I get those too. So obvious it is ridiculous. But *this one* is persistent.

I have reported to LinkedIn and blocked this specific profile dozens of times in the last couple weeks, and this profile just keeps cloning the profile with the same name / photo / profile / experience and proceeds to copy & past links to bogus jobs to random people in random threads.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ron DarlingNov 13, 2025
dang, that sucks : (

This particular user profile has successfully caught my attention, and a few days ago I started logging the LinkedIn URLS and taking screenshots.

Not quite sure *why* I am being stalked like this.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that some human LinkedIn staff are likely involved in this persistent stalking, which has been going on for a couple weeks before I finally decided to start tracking this.

I tagged the LinkedIn Help account, but so far, silence.

This persistent stalking is simply bizarre, in its own absurd surreal way.

Curious if *other* people on LinkedIn also have noticed persistent stalker LinkedIn profiles, or maybe I am just a test subject.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
Richard Noss
Tom Kirkmanreplying to John Shurr, PMBP, SAFE, STAMP, MBANov 13, 2025
🤔
Tom Kirkmanreplying to John Shurr, PMBP, SAFE, STAMP, MBANov 13, 2025
🤔
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Wes PetersNov 13, 2025
or *only* make copy & paste job scam comments either ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Daniel KalininNov 13, 2025
I've been on LinkedIn for 15 years. It's been going downhill for the last few years.

I joined LinkedIn in September 2010.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ken SawyerNov 13, 2025
good to know, thanks. Once I block anyone here, I receive a 404 message (error, not found).] if I search for their URL.

I'm just waiting to see if this user profile pops yet again tomorrow, or if LinkedIn finally blocked him once and for all.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Elie AzagouryNov 13, 2025
indeed. Annoying though. But could be dangerous if anyone actually clicked on those spam / scam links.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
And he's baaaaaack following me yet again for the 3rd time today.

New URL:
https :// www . linkedin . com / in / williams-andrew- 907b23391/

Screencap below. What I find interesting is his activity now lists that he reposted something *2 weeks ago* (see red highlights in the screencap).

Something else I remember, one of the very first times that I blocked him last week, I commented when he tagged me, that his comment *misspelled* the company name "Caterpillar" in the link he provided for people to submit their CVs.

He misspelled the link as "caterpiller" as in
hiringdesk . caterpiller @ outlook . com

Unfortunately, I did not snag a screenshot of my comment to him about the misspelling, before I blocked him.

One would think that a "Senior Vice President at Caterpillar Inc." would know how to spell the company name in his Microsoft Outlook email address.

Also, I was messaged by LinkedIn Help that this has now been escalated for investigation, and LinkedIn will email me within 24 to 72 hours.
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
And he just tagged me now in this thread by Ian McCoy

Hey LinkedIn Help, this is still ongoing. Thank you for messaging me about this today.

This time, I'm *not* going to block his new URL, so other people can poke around in his post and comment history on LinkedIn.

https :// http://www.linkedin.com/ in/williams-andrew- 907b23391/

[ spaces added to URL ^ ]

Screencap from new comment.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394724448584527872?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7394724448584527872%2C7394839328243240960%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7394724448584527872%2C7394857906657079297%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287394839328243240960%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7394724448584527872%29&dashReplyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287394857906657079297%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7394724448584527872%29
Tom KirkmanNov 13, 2025
I was tagged in his comment after blocking him dozens of times already.
Screencap of his summary of his copy & paste comments just now (13 Nov 2025)
Tom KirkmanNov 14, 2025
Final Update, LinkedIn Trust and Support has banned the stalker, case now closed. Screencap of email below.
Thanks to LinkedIn Help for taking care of this.

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