Users are scamming Spotify with fake famous collaborations

OneZero has an amazing article about scammers who are gaming Spotify with fake artist features, in order to inflate their Spotify streaming numbers. This is how it works: First, the scammer uploads a song to Spotify using a third-party site. When filling out the track’s information, they add a popular artist as “featured” (when they are, in fact, not involved with the song at all). The last step is automatic - Spotify’s algorithm places the song in prime spots across the platform. The goal: to rack up streams and money, of course.