This is why we can’t have nice things.
Just a heads up, recently there have been a number of crypto scams rearing their ugly heads claiming to be AllMusic representatives and asking users to “optimize” songs in exchange for rewards. They go by the names allmusicwebplayer and allmusicseoalbum. This is not legit, and has nothing to do with us.
A helpful user writes:
“I got approached a lot by scammers lately via mobile texts that claim to work for AllMusic, and they all say they offer remote jobs. They end up insisting users to go on WhatsApp and to make an account on a fake AllMusic website, where they then tell the users that they can they get paid by rating albums.
Eventually it leads to a conversation about transferring the fake earned money from that website into cryptocurrency, which I’m positive leads to some method of phishing users out of their actual accounts. They had many AllMusic training groups on WhatsApp (which they called ALL music training groups), where in each group, they allow a single victim in.”
Another user writes:
“I have been contacted by text, someone saying being a recruiter for AllMusic and offering me a part-time remote position. I get onboarded through a WhatsApp group by another guy and trained on their platform. The tasks involve submitting songs for optimization and getting a commission each time. It really just a click on a button, nothing else.
After completing a set of 40 tasks, you get to withdraw your balance. Everything is in crypto. After you deposit again, a new set is open and so on. You get hooked because the rewards are crazy. The higher the balance, the higher the rewards. Then you stumble onto a “rare” combination album that brings your balance negative and need to deposit to complete the task. And then the cycle continues.
The group is very well organized and it really looks like a legitimate AllMusic thing. There are several members in this group, at least a 100 from what I can see. There are several subgroups in the Whatsapp community. I texted one privately and he says he haven’t seen anything suspicious so far. They also seem to run the same scam with LiveOne and Beatport.”
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We’re working with our legal team and the domain registrars on getting this taken down, but that can be a slow process. Please note that we have nothing to do with this.
Stay vigilant.
