Those Interested In
Buying Concert Ticket Online Must Beware Of Scammers Lurking To Dupe Victims!!
Almost anything in
the world can be used in a scam now, everyone better be careful! But syndicates
selling concert tickets are no new news, there have always been fraudsters
selling ‘tickets’ on social media to dupe unsuspecting users.
Just like the 21-year-old student, Koh, was scammed out of RM180.
Lucky it’s not a larger amount of money.
“I wanted to go for
a mini-concert by the K-Pop group Rookie in Mutiara Damansara on April 23.
“I posted a comment
on the event’s official Facebook page, expressing my wish to buy a ticket on
March 31.
“That day, I
received a private Facebook message from a woman who went by the name Wong Mei
Kei.
“She claimed that
she was an employee of ticketing company Ticket Charge with tickets for sale,” Koh told reporters
at the MCA Public Services and Complaints Department yesterday.
She banked in RM180 to the account of Tan You Shen after she booked
one ticket from them.
She later received WhatsApp messages from Tan saying that the
ticket could only be collected if Koh bought another 2. Tan kept insisting Koh
to bank in another RM360, and she suspected something was fishy.
Tan even went to the extent to tell Koh that another buyer, Amy,
would bank in the money back to Koh if she bank in the cash. So many tactics
this fraudster has!
“When I refused, Tan
and Amy kept harassing me and even threatened to expose me and my family as
conmen. I then lodged a police report,” Koh said.
Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong believed it to be the same
syndicate as there were five similar cases last year where 2 ladies were
cheated of RM2,241 last year when they bought tickets to 2 events, there were 3
others that were nearly duped as well.
“If you have doubts,
contact the organizer directly,” Ticket Charge chief executive officer
Kinnix Chan advice to the public.
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