Mysterious messages started appearing in Paula Toledo’s inbox on Dec. 8, telling her to brace for an onslaught of people trying to get in touch with her.
The messages said internet sleuths had been trying to track down a song she recorded some two decades ago.
“I was not sure what was happening,” Toledo said from her Vancouver home. “It sounded a little bit too surreal.”
She wondered if she was being targeted by some sort of elaborate phishing scam.
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The details, though, were too specific. How could scammers know about How Long, a song she recorded in Langley, B.C., in the 2000s but never released commercially?
Then