Fake promoters sold 1500 tickets at $40 each before word got round they had no plans to play in Jakarta
No show: Motley Crue alerted fans
Scammers who promoted a fake Motley Crue concert managed to rake in $60,000 before fans were alerted to the fraud.
Over 1500 people bought tickets priced around $40 for a non-existent show in Jakarta, Indonesia, advertised last month.
On September 21 national media announced Crue would make their first visit to the country on October 8.
A day later the band released a statement saying they had no such plans – but tickets had been on sale since August and hundreds of fans had paid up by the time word got around.
One victim of the scam, Dedi Supriadi, heard the news from Crue’s Twitter account, but it was too late to recover cash he’d handed over on August 20.
Supriadi tells Tempo Interactive: “They replied through Twitter that there is no concert in Indonesia. We only believed the concert was going to be held because we’ve been to many concerts before.”
[...] Scammers who promoted a fake Motley Crue concert managed to rake in $60,000 before fans were alerted to the fraud. Over 1500 people bought tickets priced around $40 for a non-existent show in Jakarta, Indonesia, advertised last month. On September 21 national media announced Crue would make their first visit to the country on October 8. A day later the band released a statement saying they had no such plans – but tickets had been on sale since August and hundreds of fans had paid up by the time word got around. more on this story [...]
[...] Rock News Desk reports that concert promoters fraudulently sold over 1,500 tickets to a Motley Crue show set to take place in Jakarta, Indonesia. News of the purported October 8th show, which would have marked the band’s first visit to the country, made it’s way to the national media September 21st. [...]
[...] Word of the faux show, scheduled for October 8th, made its way to the national media, which on September 21st, announced that this would be Crue’s first concert in the country, reports Rock News Desk. [...]
[...] Rock News Desk reports that unison promoters fraudulently sole over 1,500 tickets to a Motley Crue uncover set to take place in Jakarta, Indonesia. News of a supposed Oct 8th show, that would have noted a band’s initial revisit to a country, done it’s approach to a inhabitant media Sep 21st. [...]