A Familiar comment...

[The Detective]

Those who charted (and possibly more) have received this comment so don't feel flattered as you've just been spammed



Great song you have here. I'm a music publisher with BMI. I'm involved with a few business associates launching a new website. Which is going to be good for bands getting massive exposure, selling CDs, TShirts and getting radio and internet airplay so that you will get royalties from your songs plus have your gigs live so that you can sell tickets. You keep almost everything that you make.

To opt-in and to be notify once this site becomes live which should be in about a month before christmas. We will also have also classified searches for bands looking for musicians within your local area.

Our new site is called http://promotingthebands.com

Also if your songs are not published then you need will need to get them published. In which we would published your songs that way they are protected and from that you will receive royaties from BMI. If your not an affiliate writer with BMI here is thte link
https://applications.bmi.com/affiliation/joinen.aspx

It's free to join. For more doesn't hestiate to give me a call.

Best Regards,
Tony Cunha
T J C Communications Publishing BMI
T J C Communications Publishing BMI
774-473-6040
[email protected]

[stiffjesus]

Well sleuthed, and pointed out that there detective. Appreciate your guiding eyes and ears.
Can you the apt anagram hidden in the name Tony Cunha?
:]

[The Detective]

achy no nut?

[Dave Fountain]

Oh bugger, he hasn't announced himself as a CEO. That's my sweeping generalization theory knacked! The clue is in the text for people wanting to make money from their music....

You keep almost everything that you make.

Well ok, do it all yourself and you keep EVERYTHING that you make. Huzzah!

[The Detective]

They didn't take the time to grammer and spell check their copy and paste statement either. Also, bmi pays you the royalties according to their website. So they won't pay you anything it sounds like. You have to hope bmi sends you a check, they are who you have to deal with. Website also looks like someone downloaded a free template and just changes the words of "enter text here" to "promote your band"

[Redshirt Theory]

As a great mp3er once said

Hey BMI guy,

Is your rate button broke?

[Rosemarie]

Yeah, I thought so. If someone likes my music so much, why didn't they take 10 extra seconds and email me? When they put something that can apply to anyone, you have to figure it is a scam.

I could say the same thing about being a music producer with BMI. Anyone impressed?

I agree with Redshirt Theory - if it was so good, push the rate button for crying out loud.

[stiffjesus]

Originally Posted by The Detective

achy no nut?

Class. I hadn't seen that.
My thoughts were along these lines (grammatical/artistic licence needed):

'Ha! y no ....'

You'll have to fill in the gaps cos it is fairly rude.

[Superhuman]

Ron picked up on this one the other day too, here's a copy of my reply to that post:

Hmmmm, plenty of spelling mistakes and poor grammar. Also, there is no mention of any of this on BMI.com which is not good. Promotingthebands.com is registered by proxy via domain privacy company so you can't see who owns the domain - unusual as a genuine company would want to keep their corporate contact details clearly visible to the public. Smells like a total scam to me. Why on earth would a non-profit corporation like BMI feel the need to contact unsigned artists via their comments pages? Looks like the site could be set up as a phishing site using elements of the real BMI site to trick users into giving over personal info.

On further inspection, the companies website is actually tjcmusicpublishing-bmi.com.... no they are not BMI at all, just someone trying to piggy back off the BMI name. Also, this massive corporation uses a gmail account...

[Superhuman]

tonycunha

Seeing as there are no real rules in The Dump I will rely on the swear filter for this anagram....No ct Yah