OP, this is a hassle in the OSINT community because LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, uses CLEAR and Persona to do ID and facial recognition verification.

Two methods:

Method 1)

First, get a burner smartphone and a Mint Mobile SIM.

Use that and sign up for a new GMail or Yahoo account under the name of a fake generic name like Angela Davis.

Wait at least 30 days. Use the Gmail amount sparingly, but sign up for a few things like TikToc or Snapchat but don’t do too much. Email account must be aged.

After 30 days, find an online Gen AI image platform that uses Flux or SDXL. Generate several images using the same highly detailed description of a person with the same seed number. Make sure they look similar enough that the seem to be the same person. You want a profile image in professional dress, a casual dress image holding something, and a harsh lighting ID style passport photo.

Create a plausible resume in a PDF or Word doc, and edit meta data to match the name of your fake person. Ensure they work at a real and very large company, like Walmart, and attended a very large college.

Sign up for a LinkedIn account. When signing up, add a profile pic and upload resume to populate data. Once the account is done, log out and don’t touch it again for at least 30 days.

After 30 days, log in. Poke around, don’t do much, don’t try and make friends. Wait another 2 weeks.

After the additional 2 weeks, log in again and try and connect with 2-3 people from the large company or college that street open to connect. Try and connect by searching for emails, not names. Job recruiters are also usually a good starting point for a few easy connections.

You may have dodged the CLEAR verification at this point, but likely not. Photoshop a state ID image of your fake profile plus ID photo together, and then a selfie image holding the ID, and save them. Update image metadata to show the image was created on a phone 2 min before you upload it. Make sure the state matches your resume’s address and IP address you’re using to when you log in.

Log out, and give it a week or two again to see if they accepted your images. If so, at this point, start trying to connect to a few people at a time, no more than 5 a day, 3 days a week. In another month or so, you can use the account regularly and try to get within 3 degrees of a connection from your target.

Method 2)

Risk buying 10 aged LinkedIn accounts from scammers online and hope that one works, and is old enough to not hit the CLEAR check threshold. Leave the profile as you bought it -don’t edit anything!- and try connecting to people to get your target within 3 degrees.

If either of these sound insane, it’s because that’s our future, people. It’s insane already and you just haven’t been exposed to it.