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The story seems like a mix of a musical western and a technological dystopia, but it is real and haunts the composers of Goiânia, where the most listened to songs in Brazil come from. The reporter tells how he discovered the scam when talking to the authors of country music hits. “I started talking to these composers. Each one would point me to the other, and they would say: 'Look, everyone is being robbed, finding these fake profiles and not knowing what to do'”. Based on the outraged reports, Rodrigo Ortega went to understand the world of ghost singers. It is a network of 209 country music profiles that do not exist in real life, used to publish more than 444 stolen tracks. These tracks are 'guides', preliminary versions that the authors try to sell to singers and duos. They suspect 'infiltrators' in groups that buy and sell country music. #uolprime