It has come to our consideration that people are fraudulently utilizing the Billboard title and trademark to run what appears to be a cryptocurrency rip-off operation. This isn’t legit and never in any manner affiliated with Billboard.
When you’ve got fallen sufferer to such a rip-off operation, it’s instructed that you simply contact the Web Crime Criticism Heart (IC3) on its website.
As all the time, Billboard doesn’t solicit any form of compensation for music or artist promotion. Web sites and social media accounts promising protection in alternate for revenue share paid by way of cryptocurrency are usually not affiliated with us in any manner. Confirmed examples of such rip-off pages embrace musicpromobillboard.com/login and musicpromobillboard.com/register.
Equally, any “firm” figuring out itself as Billboard or Billboard Worldwide, LLC that invitations you to register for paid protection on-line or in print is an imposter. Please don’t ship them cost of any form. It’s potential they are going to attain out to you by way of a false electronic mail comparable to information@billboard.expertise.
Sadly, this subject is just not the primary of its form. Scammers on social media have been posing as Billboard contributors for years, ripping pictures and biographical info from actual writers’ profiles and reaching out to personal people and/or musicians — typically concentrating on smaller artists — to supply protection in alternate for cash. If this occurs to you, block the consumer and report them to the social media platform on which you had been contacted.
It’s additionally vital to notice that Billboard doesn’t have the facility to straight ban or freeze social media accounts purporting to be contributors. Because of this it’s notably vital for people to be vigilant about not falling for scams.
Genuine Billboard contact info is out there on our website.
