Avoiding LinkedIn restricted when creating new accounts?

[Birthday Bread]

I've been trying to create new accounts lately, and the majority have been restricted within days upon creation. This is prior to any activity (adding connections, posts, or filling out profile), but subsequent to successful creation of the account.

Does anyone know what process LinkedIn uses to detect new/duplicate accounts? I've tried permutations of the following:

VPN (OpenVPN, StealthVPN, OpenWeb)
Different hardware (Laptops, desktops, tablets)
Different physical IPs (Coffee shops, different cities)
Different Google Voice, etc. phone verification

Edit: This is with manual process so far.

 

[Lord_RK]

I will suggest you to don't create accounts frequently. Try to use dedicated proxies for account creation.

 

[bunyan]

You say "before filling out profile", so were these accounts' profiles completely blank? Like just first name, last name and company?

 

[Birthday Bread]

You say "before filling out profile", so were these accounts' profiles completely blank? Like just first name, last name and company?

Yes, that's correct - would it be better to fill them out upon creation?

 

[Birthday Bread]

I will suggest you to don't create accounts frequently. Try to use dedicated proxies for account creation.

Any recommendations for proxies? I assume this is one of the big problems as the VPNs have IPs that are too similar and known. The downside is that most residential proxy services I've seen are in the $4-500 range and I don't have the scale to need that many accounts / bandwidth yet.

 

[bunyan]

Yes, that's correct - would it be better to fill them out upon creation?

I'd say yes, everything that makes them look more "real" is better.

 

[Lord_RK]

Any recommendations for proxies? I assume this is one of the big problems as the VPNs have IPs that are too similar and known. The downside is that most residential proxy services I've seen are in the $4-500 range and I don't have the scale to need that many accounts / bandwidth yet.

You can try Instant Proxy. It is cheaper than any other else.

 

[Birthday Bread]

You can try Instant Proxy. It is cheaper than any other else.

This looks great - thank you.

Any suggestions for phone verification besides buying pay as you go SIM cards? Most text service sites/apps (Textfree, Textnow, etc.) don't work. This isn't a must, but not having to buy SIM cards would simplify things down the road.

 

[Birthday Bread]

I'd say yes, everything that makes them look more "real" is better.

Makes sense, will test and see if it helps.

 

[Lord_RK]

This looks great - thank you.

Any suggestions for phone verification besides buying pay as you go SIM cards? Most text service sites/apps (Textfree, Textnow, etc.) don't work. This isn't a must, but not having to buy SIM cards would simplify things down the road.

You can try http://smspva.com/.

 

[Birthday Bread]

You can try http://smspva.com/.

Great, thanks again!

Will update this thread with results in about a week or so after I've tested a few things.

 

[Birthday Bread]

Still getting a very high closure rate for accounts created with US phone verification and using Instantproxy based in the US. Populated fields and profiled as "all star". Some are being closed within 1 hour. Very strange.

Actually, not sure it is even "restricted". I can log in, but anyone who tries to view the profile cannot. And it says "profile is unavailable".

 

[bunyan]

If you can login, it's definitely something different from restriction. Are you able to view other people's profiles and send connection requests?

 

[likhonahmed]

I dont know about it.

 

[Birthday Bread]

If you can login, it's definitely something different from restriction. Are you able to view other people's profiles and send connection requests?

Yes, but no one else can view the account's profile, and people I sent invites to don't see it (tested with other accounts).

 

[bunyan]

Yes, but no one else can view the account's profile, and people I sent invites to don't see it (tested with other accounts).

You can try to reach out to LinkedIn support with this, acting like a real user having troubles with their profile, and see what they say They might restrict you but I suppose it's a one-off account anyway.

 

[Birthday Bread]

Reporting back in. Residential proxy seems to be a must. After using residential proxy, success rate is very high, almost 100%.

 

[yherrliche]

I've created many linkedin accounts, the only thing that got me deleted was using pictures from other linkedin profiles. So avoid doing that.

I would create them on the same IP (starbucks, or home), using an alias on the company email. so its [email protected] / [email protected] etc... Then I add my other accounts as colleagues, fill the profile, and use Linkedin a bit.
I then go to the next account. It's normal for a company to create accounts for their employees/manage them. The only thing that fucked me over was using pics from linkedin, when I used pics from google or facebook, they somehow didn't catch me. I guess they have some facial recognition.

Also once I wanted to merge one of the fake profiles with my real profile because it actually did quite well, and they thought I was stealing my employee's account so I got banned. So don't do that either.

I hope it helps somehow.

 

[SaveThePlanet]

Reporting back in. Residential proxy seems to be a must. After using residential proxy, success rate is very high, almost 100%.

Hey @Birthday Bread just checking your confirmed process if that's okay:

- Residential proxies provided by InstantProxies?
- Phone verification provided by smspva.com
- VPN provided by ?

 

[Amanda Fischer]

I am hearing about Linkedin moderating their platform very strictly from a lot of people, it is better if you are creating any profiles through VPN then use separate locations for each profile.