Google Music Invite Scam

Google Music Invite Scam

 

 

The latest online hoax, known as the Google Music Invite Scam, is pretty easy to avoid if you know it’s out there.  Simply put, only Google can invite you to test drive the Google Music Beta program, and anyone else offering you a free invite is simply trying to set you up for a scam.

“Any person or website claiming to be ‘giving away’ Google Music invites is lying”

Google Music Invite Scam | Mashable.com

Mashable.com had the following to say about the Google Music invite scam:

The beta doesn’t let current users give out invitations to their friends, so no one has spare invites to give you. That includes Mashablewriters, your friends online, and any website claiming to be giving away Google Music invites. Any person or website claiming to be “giving away” Google Music invites is lying, a fact we’ve just confirmed with Google representatives. Because of the way invites are handed out, they’re linked to specific Google Accounts. In other words, one person can’t request an invite and pass it on; the invite has to be requested and accepted by the same Google Account.

So far, we’ve seen all kinds of scam and spam out there around Google Music, from CPA surveys to data gathering apps that prompt you to enter personal information. We should be more surprised at the alacrity of these scam-hounds, but with every great product comes great potential for fraud. Free iPod, anybody?

If you see links out there for Google Music invites, don’t click them. Don’t tweet them, and don’t post them on Facebook or anywhere else. The only link you need is Music.Google.com, the official website of Google Music.

Hopefully we can avoid more spamming and hijacking of accounts by not falling for the Google Music Invite scam.