Only a heads up, lately there have been quite a few crypto scams rearing their ugly heads claiming to be AllMusic representatives and asking customers to “optimize” songs in trade 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 obtained approached lots by scammers these days through cellular 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 pretend 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 pretend earned cash from that web site into cryptocurrency, which I am optimistic results in some methodology of phishing customers out of their precise accounts. That they had many AllMusic coaching teams on WhatsApp (which they referred to 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 by means of a WhatsApp group by one other man and skilled 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 steadiness. All the things 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 steadiness, the upper the rewards. Then you definitely stumble onto a “uncommon” mixture album that brings your steadiness unfavourable and have to deposit to finish the duty. After which the cycle continues.
The group could be very nicely organized and it actually appears to be like like a respectable AllMusic factor. There are a number of members on this group, a minimum of 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. Additionally they appear to run the identical rip-off with LiveOne and Beatport.”
We’re working with our authorized workforce and the area registrars on getting this taken down, however that may be a gradual course of. Please observe that we now have nothing to do with this.
Keep vigilant.
