Professional networking website LinkedIn will pay $13 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in a California District Court in US over allegations of spam.<br />The suit, filed in 2013, accused LinkedIn of sending unsolicited invitation emails to potential users by using email contacts lists of existing users who imported their email address book.<br />As per the lawsuit, LinkedIn spammed owners of email addresses part of users' imported address books even if they did not respond by sending up to two reminder emails.<br />According to the report, each affected user could receive up to $1,500 and users can file for a claim on a website named addconnectionssettlement.com before December 14, 2015.
