I get them all the time. It is not a scam, but is a real LinkedIn feature. Unfortunately, it is meaningless. I have people endorsing me for things I've never done and I can't find any way to remove it. I think employers will recognize this and not pay any attention to it.

>WTF is the deal with "endorsements" in Linked In?
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>I don't really use Linked In for anything and only have the free thing but I keep getting emails saying people in my network but with whom I've never worked have endorsed me for one skill or another. I figured maybe they are trolling for return endorsements ( would be happy to since they don't seem to require any real knowledge of whether somebody knows what the hell they are doing <s> ) but I don't see anyplace to do that and I don't see anything in my linked in profile that shows the endorsements so I'm starting to be suspicious the whole thing is some kind of scam and is not being generated by the people it says are endorsing me.
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>At first it was a couple folks here endorsing me for SQL server, so I figured OK, I have talked about doing stuff with that, but today I got one saying Mike Beane and Randy Jean ( an old VFP friend I haven't talked to in years) have endorsed me for XML ( of which my encyclopedic knowledge is rivaled only by my understanding of baseball, soccer and gansta rap (west coast) )
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>Anybody else getting these? Anyone want to get endorsed for Cobol, Turtle Logo or Microsoft Bob?