This post isn’t about phishing; it’s about fishing for information absent the incognito part.
Recently in one of my LinkedIn groups, there was a curious inquiry from a group member. He was looking for a vendor of competitive intelligence services for online media owners that was based in the U.K. The request wasn’t more specific than that and being in this business I decided to have a look, a cautious look.
There were three responses, none of them on target but close. I looked at the name and title(s) of the person posing the question. My curiosity piqued. It appeared that the person making the inquiry may have the skills being called for. I thought, “Is this a genuine inquiry? Perhaps for a partnership? Or is this a quick and easy deployment of competitive intelligence to identify potential competitors?” In other words, was this guy on a fishing trip, wrapping CI with CI?
Here’s the link. Click. You be the judge.
