Most of you have probably never heard of Bandcamp. I have, since I posted several songs on the platform several years ago under the band names “Ontario Emperor” and “Wasp the Houseboy.” (If you want to avoid Bandcamp’s charges, I posted one of the songs, “For a Meaningful Apocryphal Animation,” on the Bredemarket website.)
Now my fellow Bandcampers and I are targeted by a fraudster, according to Drillmation.
“The current wave of attacks relies heavily on abusing legitimate contact forms to bypass standard email spam filters. Creators are receiving urgent emails coming from
noreply@bandcamp.com, which masks the malicious intent because the initial message delivery pipeline is technically authentic.“The emails claim that the platform’s security team has “registered several requests to your account from unknown devices” and demand immediate identity verification to prevent account suspension.”
Note the urgency, which is a typical tactic of fraudsters.
Be safe out there.
Bredemarket 