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Only LinkedIn, via linkedin.com/help. No third-party site can do it, and any site claiming otherwise is a scam.
connectingodds.com/contact — answered by a person, no ticket maze.
No public support phone line exists; everything goes through the Help Centre.
If you are here because you cannot get into LinkedIn, we cannot help with that account — we are a separate company and have no access to their systems. The only route is linkedin.com/help.
What we can do is explain what that process looks like, what usually causes a lockout, and what a support experience should look like on a platform you own your presence on.
Automation flags: browser extensions that auto-connect, auto-message or scrape trip detection quickly, and the restriction usually arrives without warning.
Identity checkpoints: signing in from a new country, a VPN or a fresh device can trigger a document check. Have a government ID ready; nothing else clears it.
Invitation bursts: a hundred invitations in an afternoon looks like a bot. Restrictions from this are usually temporary.
Anyone offering paid 'account recovery', asking for your password, or claiming to be law enforcement inside a professional network is running a fraud. No legitimate platform employee will ever ask for your password.
Report it inside the platform, and to your national fraud reporting line. Do not pay a third party to talk to a support desk you can reach for free.
Connecting Odds has a single contact route, a published data-request process, self-service export and deletion, and no requirement to hold a paid plan to get an answer.
That is not a competitive boast so much as the minimum a professional network owes the people whose careers depend on it.
No. We are an independent professional network with no affiliation to LinkedIn Corporation and no access to their systems. Only LinkedIn's own support can restore a LinkedIn account, through their Help Centre at linkedin.com/help.
Through the LinkedIn Help Centre — there is no public phone line. Free accounts get a form-based queue; Premium, Recruiter and Sales Navigator subscribers get faster routes. Response times commonly run from a day to over a week.
Usual causes are automation or scraping tools, a burst of invitations, multiple accounts, or an identity check triggered by a new device or country. Restoration always requires their identity verification process.
It comes from people checking whether a message or profile contacting them is genuine. If a profile claims to be law enforcement and asks for money, documents or crypto, it is a scam — report it in-platform and to your national fraud line, not to a third-party site.
Use the contact form at connectingodds.com/contact. Account, billing and data requests are answered by a person, and data requests follow the process on our data-request page.
On Connecting Odds both live under Settings → Privacy: a full export of your profile, posts, applications and messages, and account deletion. On LinkedIn the equivalents are under Settings → Data privacy.
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