LinkedIn Safety Guide

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LinkedIn is a professional networking platform where people build a career profile, connect with others, and look for jobs. Its UK minimum age is 16. Because it presents itself as a serious, professional space, teenagers and parents can underestimate the risks — but LinkedIn is a common channel for recruitment scams, fake internships, and adults using a professional pretext to contact young people.

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Older teenagers use LinkedIn to look for part-time work, apprenticeships, internships, and their first jobs, to research universities and employers, and to build an early professional profile. Sixth-formers are often encouraged by schools to create accounts. The professional framing lowers young people's guard: a message from a stranger feels legitimate when it arrives with a company logo and a job title. Scammers exploit this by posing as recruiters, offering fake roles that harvest personal and banking details, request 'training fees', or funnel applicants into mule-account or task-based scams. Some adults also use professional-sounding approaches as a pretext to build one-to-one contact with a young person.

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