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Title: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: CaliaMoko on October 23, 2016, 12:56:33 AM: Anyone seen anything like this before?

"hello how r you I want to REPOST your track https://soundcloud.com/caliamoko/how-did-they-get-here-1 to my page: soundcloud.com\conlytune (1500+ followers). Please help me a bit as well: 1. Login to this game: goo.gl/T8bJFy 2. Send me your gaming nickname. And I'll do the REPOST for you"

I am mainly just curious, as I have no interest in logging into any games. Unless, of course, it'll get me hundreds of listens and maybe a few deal offers. ;)

Vicki
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: ShinyThang on October 23, 2016, 06:19:58 AM: Er, I've been re-posted a few times but never with conditions like that. Log in to a game? How can that be relevant? I'd steer clear of this myself.
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: Boydie on October 23, 2016, 11:11:15 AM: It is phishing and spam - avoid at all costs!
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: PopTodd on October 23, 2016, 01:47:43 PM: I've gotten a request for re-post. The same thing with the login request and all that. This is how I responded:
"Hey Betty,
I am totally flattered! Thanks for asking but, actually I never meant for that track to be public. It's just a rehearsal recording.
I do plan on doing a proper recording, though, sometime soon, and you are welcome to repost that version. Right now, however, I am just using this one for a reference tape.
Take care, and thanks again.
Todd"

I had no intention of logging on to anything.
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: CaliaMoko on October 23, 2016, 02:06:34 PM: Well, I figured as much, but it was new angle I had never seen before and I was curious. Thanks for the replies!
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: MartynRich on October 23, 2016, 03:32:22 PM: Basically they want your email address Vicki...then your inbox will be filled to the rafters with nonesense!
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: ShinyThang on October 26, 2016, 07:25:15 AM: Hey Vicki,
I just got the same request to login to a game in return for a re-post on Soundcloud...

Hey everyone,
is there some way can report these peeps d'ya think?
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: CaliaMoko on October 26, 2016, 02:50:47 PM: Yeah, I got another one yesterday. It must be a new plan to scam scheme. I imagine they can be reported to Sound Cloud and those members would probably be removed. Stuff like that, though, once the people (companies) who run scams learn about the new technique, they all jump on the bus. It'll never be possible to catch them all. Better to keep educating people so maybe some day no one will fall for any of that stuff. It won't go away until it no longer works.
Title: Re: SoundCloud Repost Request I Received...
Post by: mickyplankton on October 27, 2016, 05:50:32 PM: i had this too. i think these posters have been removed from Soundcloud.