With concerts back, so are ticket scams. Here’s what to watch out for when buying tickets and how to avoid lookalike scams.
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — With concerts officially back in America, so are concert ticket scams.
Recent reports to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Scam Tracker show that scammers are preying on concertgoers by imitating popular ticket seller Ticketmaster.
Here’s how the scam works, the scam website will present itself very similarly to Ticketmaster, but under the name of TicketSmarter or TicketFaster. The website will have customers enter their personal information and credit card information like Ticketmaster, but after the “tickets” are purchased is when the true scam is revealed.
Customers could receive tickets with the incorrect name or simply not receive the tickets at all. Or, the tickets will be delivered at a much higher rate than the website advertised.
When the scammed customer attempts to call customer service for the sham website, they are either unreachable, unhelpful, or aggressive.
“They sent me two tickets with someone else’s name on them, and they also charged me three times the amount [of] the ticket price,” said a scammed buyer. I have no way to get a refund and no customer…
