But… it’s possible to purchase stolen premium accounts on the black market, making the scheme profitable almost immediately.
If each stream is worth $0.007 a click, the fraudster only needs 1,429 streams to make their $10 subscription fee back, at which point additional clicks are pure profit. Months after this happened and I had forgotten all about it, I read this article about Spotify’s royalties model which revealed a motive:Īll a fraudster has to do is set up a fake artist account with fake music, and then they can use bots to generate clicks for their pretend artist. Surely no one hates ads so much that they would hack into someone else’s account to get rid of them rather than paying the monthly fee? But why would anyone want to hack into my Spotify Premium account?
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