Not the person you responded to, but I've had the same problem. Recruiters will email me directly with shallow compliments on my LinkedIn profile.
It might not be directly through LinkedIn- about once a year, random recruiters will call my personal cell phone, even though I have no how they possibly got it. By now it's on a list that gets sold, I'm sure, but where it started, I'm clueless.
The most infuriating are recruiters who cold-email me at my work email. There's something about contacting me via my official capacity as an employee to take a different job that really gets under my skin. Might just be that I am very, very much not a "bring your whole self to work" kind of guy and more of a "keep a hard divide between my work and personal life" one.
It might not be directly through LinkedIn- about once a year, random recruiters will call my personal cell phone, even though I have no how they possibly got it. By now it's on a list that gets sold, I'm sure, but where it started, I'm clueless.
The most infuriating are recruiters who cold-email me at my work email. There's something about contacting me via my official capacity as an employee to take a different job that really gets under my skin. Might just be that I am very, very much not a "bring your whole self to work" kind of guy and more of a "keep a hard divide between my work and personal life" one.