Entertainment · K-Culture & Anime · 4 hrs ago
RESCENE’s Agency Warns of Impersonation Fraud
THE MUZE Entertainment warned of an impersonation scam involving someone pretending to work for the agency that represents the K-pop group RESCENE.
The person reportedly claimed to belong to the agency’s management support team and contacted paper manufacturers to demand money.
The agency says the individual is not employed by it and has no connection to the company.
It says employees use official email accounts ending in @themuze.kr and never make monetary demands.
The company is taking legal measures, including pressing charges against the impersonator.
It asks anyone who receives a similar request not to respond and to report it to police or relevant authorities.
THE MUZE Entertainment warned of an impersonation scam involving someone falsely claiming to work for the company.
The impersonator reportedly contacted multiple paper manufacturing companies and made monetary demands.
The agency said the person was not employed by or connected to the company.
THE MUZE said its employees use official email accounts ending in @themuze.kr and never make monetary demands.
The company said it was taking legal measures, including pressing charges, and urged recipients of similar requests to report them to authorities.
- Who
- THE MUZE Entertainment and an unidentified person impersonating a company employee.
- What
- The agency warned that the impersonator contacted paper manufacturing companies to demand money and gain unfairly.
- When
- The agency issued its statement on October 29. The reported incidents happened recently.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- The impersonator reportedly sought monetary demands and unjust gains.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
An impersonator claiming to belong to THE MUZE Entertainment’s management support team contacted multiple paper manufacturing companies and made monetary demands.
THE MUZE Entertainment issued a warning and said it was pursuing legal measures, including pressing charges.
- Agency
- THE MUZE Entertainment
- Affected group
- Multiple paper manufacturing companies
- Official email domain
- @themuze.kr
- Announcement date
- October 29
What people are saying
Our employees only use official email accounts (@themuze.kr) for work, and in no situation whatsoever do they make monetary demands.
The individual in question is not employed at our company and has no relation whatsoever to our company.