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Event tickets - £450 Fraud
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Was just wondering why you feel they may be fake.
Not sure if this helps but the following is from TicketMasters website, so don't know if you call them back they can confirm the barcodes etc.
How do I know the tickets I buy are legitimate?
Only Ticketmaster can guarantee 100% legitimate tickets, because the tickets sold through TicketExchange are linked to Ticketmaster's ticketing systems. If you buy tickets that are sold through a source other than Ticketmaster, you have no way of knowing whether they are counterfeit or have been invalidated. If a ticket is invalidated or counterfeit Ticketmaster's systems will know and not allow it to be resold through TicketExchange. Ticketmaster accomplishes this by requiring sellers to submit the barcode number for each ticket they want to sell. Ticketmaster then checks that barcode number against its own database, and if determined to be valid then the ticket will be posted along with an automatically generated description of the ticket's section, row and seat number. If you then buy a ticket, Ticketmaster will cancel the original barcode number (thus invalidating the original ticket) and provide you with a new ticket.0 -
If you suspect a fraud, report it to the police.
How did you pay for them? Debit? Credit? Cheque? Cash? BACS?Starting Debt: ~£20,000 01/01/2009. DFD: 20/11/2009 :j
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Seems very odd that the scammer (if he is one) went to the trouble of holograms, security numbers, etc, then got the venue wrong. The email address from Ticketmaster seems right. Does the email confirmation give the email address it was sent to? Maybe the scammer was dim enough to print out his real email address, in which case maybe the police could trace it. Paulofessex's suggestion seems good - although the barcode number could have been illegally copied a hundred times from one original, couldn't it?0
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You call always ask advice on the wembley site for checking a tickets validity, if they rely on the barcode other than the ticket, it could be printed on just about anything, all they need to do to confirm is check the barcode for you.:A:dance:1+1+1=1:dance::A
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