No disclosed single-account price is on record for LinkedIn, so no price curve is drawn.
Public asking prices only · Normalized to USD from the published currency using stored reference rates · Single-account and bulk unit pricing kept separate · Median, P25 and P75 only — prices are never inferred · Asking price may not reflect a realized transaction.
Demand drivers
Why these accounts are bought
3 documented
Fake professional profiles for outreach and social engineering
A study identified 1,003 fake profiles using AI-generated portraits and outsourced management for commercial lead generation.
Every entry restates the abuse or fraud objective described in one named public source — press reporting, court filings, law-enforcement announcements, platform disclosures, security-vendor research or academic studies — and links straight to it. Nothing is inferred from other platforms, and no method, tooling or access route is described. Objectives documented in evidence are not a measure of how often they succeed.
Transparent scoring
Market Pressure Components
v0.1
Observed premiums
Commonly valued attributes
Account ageConnectionsPremium statusIdentity verificationCountryEmployment history
Attributes describe themes in evidence, not product recommendations.
Sanitized record
Evidence
3 shown
Transparency Analysis
Analysis of platform transparency reports on fake-account removals
“Analysis of published platform transparency reporting indicates LinkedIn removes an average of roughly 112 million fake accounts per year.”
A Growing Goldmine: Your LinkedIn Data Abused for Cybercrime
“Vendor research reports that once LinkedIn accounts are compromised, the credentials are shared, sold and packaged within cybercriminal underground communities.”
This salesperson does not exist: GAN-image fake LinkedIn profiles used for lead generation
“Peer-reviewed study identified 1,003 fake LinkedIn profiles using AI-generated portrait images and outsourced account management for commercial lead generation.”