All of a Sudden I’m Receiving Solicitations on BP

[Don Konipol]

I can’t remember it happening previously.  In the last three days I received 5 colleague requests.  After accepting, I was hit with (thinly) disguised solicitations as messages (“I just want your advice/feedback, can we jump on a quick call to see if you qualify for our program”) by each one.  Has anyone else come across this? 

[JD Martin]

Quote from @Becca F.:

I receive mostly messages from new investors from California. When I first joined BP in 2022, I received over 50% DMs from agents or someone in the real estate industry, including CPAs. I rarely receive solicitations now. 

Two of the weird DMs: a scammer who tried to get me to loan him money in a double close who wound up getting arrested. @Jay Hinrichs read through this guy's documents and knew it was a scam. 

 The other one was this guy trying to pretend to be interested in real estate, looking to buy rental property in the Bay Area - said he was a physician with a real estate business (investment company??) talked to him on the phone but it was difficult because English wasn't his first language. Google searched him and could find no record of this person's name as a practicing physician in the USA. I even referred him to a Bay Area agent. He starts asking personal questions and telling me he would marry me and we could move to his home country and how he was grieving because his wife died...weird. He deleted his account before I could report him to BP. 

I'd say recently someone asked me if I needed private lending and to get on a call with CPA. My answer was no on the private lending. 

I'm not clear but are solicitations allowed in DMs? I know blatantly trying to sell something in the forums or self promotions isn't. 

 Unsolicited, out of the blue ones - no, they're not allowed. You can report them to moderators/staff and they will be dealt with.