Only a heads up, not too long ago there have been a variety of crypto scams rearing their ugly heads claiming to be AllMusic representatives and asking customers to “optimize” songs in change for rewards. They go by the names allmusicwebplayer and allmusicseoalbum. This isn’t legit, and has nothing to do with us.
A useful person writes:
“I received approached rather a lot by scammers recently through cell texts that declare to work for AllMusic, they usually all say they provide distant jobs. They find yourself insisting customers to go on WhatsApp and to make an account on a faux AllMusic web site, the place they then inform the customers that they’ll they receives a commission by ranking albums.
Ultimately it results in a dialog about transferring the faux earned cash from that web site into cryptocurrency, which I am constructive results in some methodology of phishing customers out of their precise accounts. They’d many AllMusic coaching teams on WhatsApp (which they known as ALL music coaching teams), the place in every group, they permit a single sufferer in.”
One other person writes:
“I’ve been contacted by textual content, somebody saying being a recruiter for AllMusic and providing me a part-time distant place. I get onboarded via a WhatsApp group by one other man and educated on their platform. The duties contain submitting songs for optimization and getting a fee every time. It actually only a click on on a button, nothing else.
After finishing a set of 40 duties, you get to withdraw your stability. Every thing is in crypto. After you deposit once more, a brand new set is open and so forth. You get hooked as a result of the rewards are loopy. The upper the stability, the upper the rewards. Then you definately stumble onto a “uncommon” mixture album that brings your stability detrimental and must deposit to finish the duty. After which the cycle continues.
The group may be very properly organized and it actually seems to be like a reliable AllMusic factor. There are a number of members on this group, at the very least a 100 from what I can see. There are a number of subgroups within the Whatsapp group. I texted one privately and he says he haven’t seen something suspicious up to now. In addition they appear to run the identical rip-off with LiveOne and Beatport.”
We’re working with our authorized staff and the area registrars on getting this taken down, however that may be a gradual course of. Please observe that now we have nothing to do with this.
Keep vigilant.
