The reason that I chose to contrast music with accounting is that for whatever reason I’m surrounded by CPAs. Both my mom and dad are CPAs. My little sister just finished her undergrad in account. My girlfriend is a CPA. It’s a very stable career
At all levels, they have been offered me $50 000, they have been given me fortunes, ithey have been me asked to sell subscriptions to earn more money, or to get into pyramid schemes. And when it comes to instruments, i have met people who buy something very nce and branded, but the instrument are very bad inside
As the head of a university music department, I get the Yamaha piano email every other month or so. More recently, I've also received guitar and drum set variations. Thanks for writing about this; I'll refer colleagues who also receive these emails to your post along with the other articles that have been written about this (I've found it's sometimes necessary to offer such proof to others that this is a scam). My own response to them is to offer no response, just to file them in a 'Predatory emails' folder so I can cross-check when new variants come in.
When in college I struggled on whether to do music or accounting. I decided I didn't want to be a starving artist and am now a CPA, lol.
I still did music on the side , even had a number one on soundclick. But never made any money.
I'm happy with my decision
The reason that I chose to contrast music with accounting is that for whatever reason I’m surrounded by CPAs. Both my mom and dad are CPAs. My little sister just finished her undergrad in account. My girlfriend is a CPA. It’s a very stable career
Samesies - both my parents are accountants!
Why Yamaha? Wouldn’t Steinway be more prestigious?
No idea. It’s not a great scam lol
Steinway its better or bösendorfer, but maby for the scammer its easier fishing with a smaller amount of money, i dn't know either, i guess...
At all levels, they have been offered me $50 000, they have been given me fortunes, ithey have been me asked to sell subscriptions to earn more money, or to get into pyramid schemes. And when it comes to instruments, i have met people who buy something very nce and branded, but the instrument are very bad inside
My favorite sentence of the scam email follow up: “I look forward to reading from you.” I may use that in my real, non-scam emails.
As the head of a university music department, I get the Yamaha piano email every other month or so. More recently, I've also received guitar and drum set variations. Thanks for writing about this; I'll refer colleagues who also receive these emails to your post along with the other articles that have been written about this (I've found it's sometimes necessary to offer such proof to others that this is a scam). My own response to them is to offer no response, just to file them in a 'Predatory emails' folder so I can cross-check when new variants come in.