An odd discovery on Spotify
People have been noticing this a lot recently but what nobody seems to know is that this is a form of money laundering&#x2F;“scamming.” I know because I used to be active on crime forums and talked to some of the people who engineered this scheme.<p>People will set up fake Spotify artist accounts with stolen identities and bank accounts, pay a musician for songs that pass as music, and then bot millions of streams on them. At this point there are so many of these fake profiles and songs that the music, which is simple “mood music” normally (which happens to be easy to make), is appearing on real playlists and being recommended to real listeners.