ticket buying question (SCAM OR SCAM)

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » March 13, 2006 9:28 am

I was called by someone claiming to be a parrothead who say my name on a website like BN, asking me if I needed tickets to Camden. He said he was ten and wanted to let go of some. I told him I needed 5 and he said he will only send them FexEx w/ a Western Union payment recpt. Which will be given to the FedEx drive and I can open the package and examine the tix. Has anyone done this before or is it a scam. I need to know soon since he said the tix are in the mail.

thanks,

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » March 13, 2006 9:29 am

RUN AWAY!!!!

This scam rears it ugly head year after year. It amazed me that anyone actually falls for it anymore.

Post by **SMLCHNG** » March 13, 2006 9:34 am

Frank is right..

And he probably got your information here:

http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewto ... t=#1957583

OceanCityGirl · Post by **OceanCityGirl** » March 13, 2006 9:35 am

scam scam scam. I'm surprised he didn't tell you they were press passes that came with back stage privelages. I had somebody try this on me two years ago.

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » March 13, 2006 9:40 am

WoW, it's funny how the number he gave me to call him back has no one answering it nor an answering machine, ha. Then he gave me a guilt trip about it's gonna cost him twice so if i didn't want the tickets tell him now. After looking at the Wester Union site quickly i decided to call him back and no anwser. Go figure. Thanks everyone for steering me away from this guy.

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » March 13, 2006 9:41 am

SMLCHNG wrote:Frank is right..

And he probably got your information here:

http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewto ... t=#1957583

yes but the funny thing was he didn't know what site, and when pressed he said he googled it.

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » March 13, 2006 9:51 am

Another thing how can he have paper tickets already? I dont even think pre-sale tickets were sent out yet.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » March 13, 2006 9:52 am

CrznDnUS1 wrote:Another thing how can he have paper tickets already? I dont even think pre-sale tickets were sent out yet.

He doesn't have them. That's the scam part.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » March 13, 2006 10:07 am

SCAM. RUN.

And read here: http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewto ... ip#1953398

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » March 13, 2006 10:09 am

rednekkPH wrote:This scam rears it ugly head year after year. It amazed me that anyone actually falls for it anymore.

Well, to be fair, if you've never heard of it before, it sounds good. But if you think about it for a minute, it sounds TOO good to be true.......

CrznDnUS1 · Post by **CrznDnUS1** » March 13, 2006 10:18 am

this bozo just called back and i told him i changed my mind and he said ok w/ no argument. which is good since the next words out of my mouth was to call western union fraud dept.

THANKS FELLOW BN'ers!

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » March 13, 2006 11:28 am

There really should be a sticky about these scam idiots in the Ticket Exchange forum. If the scammers see a warning, they'd be less likely to try the scam, plus potential victims would also be warned...

diamonddan · Post by **diamonddan** » March 13, 2006 12:12 pm

This weekend, A Father brought his son to the ACC tournament. purchased tickets from a scalper for $1500.00

the tickets were fake.

One more thing you have to watch out for. Used tickets. Since many arenas are using bar codes now, the tickets are no longer torn at the gate. you can buy a ticket out in the parking lot that looks good, but when you get to the ticket taker, they can tell that it has already been used, and you are SOL.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » March 13, 2006 7:33 pm

Yes I will buy those tix for double what you are asking

Meet me at the gate (I will be the 6'1 300LB very scary looking PH)