Only a heads up, just lately there have been quite a lot of crypto scams rearing their ugly heads claiming to be AllMusic representatives and asking customers to “optimize” songs in alternate 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 bought approached quite a bit by scammers these days by way of cell texts that declare to work for AllMusic, and so they 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 will they receives a commission by score albums.
Finally it results in a dialog about transferring the pretend earned cash from that web site into cryptocurrency, which I am optimistic results in some technique of phishing customers out of their precise accounts. That they had 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 by way of 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 steadiness. 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 steadiness, the upper the rewards. You then stumble onto a “uncommon” mixture album that brings your steadiness destructive and have to deposit to finish the duty. After which the cycle continues.
The group may be very properly organized and it actually appears to be like like a official AllMusic factor. There are a number of members on this group, at the least a 100 from what I can see. There are a number of subgroups within the Whatsapp neighborhood. I texted one privately and he says he haven’t seen something suspicious to this point. 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 notice that we’ve nothing to do with this.
Keep vigilant.
