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Online Purchase - Online Tickets Purchase Scam

Scammer attempted to sell tickets to sold out Sleep Token concert at Xfinity Mobile (formerly Wells Fargo) center September 24, 2025 via tiktok and exchanged phone numbers. Said they would email the ticketmaster tickets upon receipt of payment. Wish I saw other posts about this scammer before sending funds. I was uncertain but at first it did not appear to be anything illegitimate. The seller was able to obtain my name, funds, and email. I’ve reported this to my banks as fraud. And blocked the scammer’s phone number which appears to be based out of Massachusetts, USA. Please be careful and if something seems off, just decline.

Dollars Lost: $760

Date Reported: August 27, 2025

Business Name Used: @clarahannah082

Online Purchase - Hannah Clara on Tiktok

Scammer attempted to sell tickets to sold out Sleep Token concert at Barclays center September 22, 2025 via tiktok and exchanged phone numbers. Said they would email the ticketmaster tickets first then receive money. Luckily I was paranoid about getting scammed so I checked the email they came from and it came from [email protected] which I saw from a previous post here was a scam. I then refused the sale and blocked the caller. The seller was able to obtain my name and email thats it.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Date Reported: August 11, 2025

Business Name Used: Hannah Clara on Tiktok

Online Purchase - GoTickets

We googled Ticketmaster and without realizing it it took us to Gotickets. We didnt realize until after we had confirmed the purchase that it was not in favr ticketmaster. We paid 729.81 for 3 Lumineers concert tickets that were never delivered and when trying to call their phone number always has an automated message that theyre closed and to call back or use their live chat however due to this scam I do not want to use live chat to potentially further put myself at risk of them gaining information.

Dollars Lost: $729.71

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 25, 2025

Business Name Used: GoTickets

Online Purchase

Claimed to work with ticket master to upgrade tickets. Claimed that in order to upfrade we had to pay for previous tickets and upgrade price before being refunded and given other tockets. Would not allow us to leave the phobe conversation and very insistant and demanding. Gave several numbers for payment only asking to pay through online payment apps or giftcards and had us try these systems several times over and over again. Did not provide tickets that we had paid the money for and told us a refund of the money was not possible even though we never obtain the goods promised.

Dollars Lost: $660

San Luis Obispo, CA

Date Reported: June 20, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Number

Online Purchase - Online Tickets Purchase Scam

We wanted to purchase weekend tickets. We found someone selling tickets from TikTok. We confirmed he had the tickets on Ticketmaster. After we paid for the tickets and the VIP ticket fee he then went and said that we needed to pay a 500$ insurance fee. We thought it was a bit sketchy and did a little bit of research and saw something about an insurance fee, So we paid for the 500$ but then he said “oh you need to pay insurance for both tickets”. And then we didn’t wanna pay that much so we then went ahead to ask for a refund but he won’t not give me the money back.

Dollars Lost: $1010

Unknown, PA

Date Reported: June 7, 2025

Business Name Used: Mandy Hulce

Sweepstakes/Lottery/Prizes

On May 2, 2025 I spoke with Tamara Brantley Davis, CEO of a nonprofit by the name of edÚcate Higher Academy. Ms. Davis claimed she had a contract/connection with Live Nation and Ticketmaster to obtain concert tickets to see Kendrick Lamar and Chris Brown perform at Sofi Stadium. Each ticket was $150 for either concert and was advertised as scholarships for the children. I made payments via CashApp on May 2nd and May 12th and was told that I would receive a link from Ticketmaster with the tickets. I sent her $1050 and never received tickets for either event. I have been calling and texting since May 2nd to get the status and kept receiving excuses and delays. I was told that refunds would be initially distributed on May 24-27, 2025 from the accounting team at Live Nation. As of today, June 4, 2025 the money has not been refunded. Ms. Davis has only continued to give excuses and delays with no accurate information given.

Dollars Lost: $1350

Los Angeles, CA

Date Reported: June 4, 2025

Business Name Used: edUcate Higher Academy

Phishing - Ticketmasterguideinfo.com

Go online to contact Ticketmaster and their number was the first number that comes up. Speaking to a foreigner, which wasn’t uncommon for when you contact these businesses and they outsource their call, but this individual was seeking money via gift cards saying that the money had to be uploaded on gift card for a refund, then began to request more and at the end of the day, nothing happen in our favor, lost out on money and tickets.

Dollars Lost: $500

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 24, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmasterguideinfo.com

Tech Support - Ticketmaster

My sister purchased tickets for my birthday however I had emergency surgery and tried to cancel spoke to someone who asked me to purchase one gift card and lost both purchases. The tickets were cancelled and they said they would refund if I purchased a gift card through Amex. That was also lost.

Dollars Lost: $1265

Santa Barbara, CA

Date Reported: May 16, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Online Purchase - Online Purchase

Ordered concert tickets through this website. They said that tickets would be delivered via email the day before the event. I called multiple times and spent a few hours on the phone and they promised my tickets would come in time. It is now the night of the event and I still don’t have any tickets. Website is a scam. Only buy from nationwide or Ticketmaster. This is fraud

Dollars Lost: $158

Date Reported: May 13, 2025

Business Name Used: Gotickets/Go Marketplace LLC

Online Purchase - Online Purchase

Person had not received purchased tickets (07 Dec) and called who they thought was a ticketmaster help line. Scam ticketmaster stated tickets would be canceled and replaced but would have to use gift cards for re purchase as they did not accept credit cards due to privacy concerns. This person after much haggling over opening a wallet to receive tickets into realized they had been scammed and told person they thought it was a scam and that person became very angry and hung up on the victim. When victim tried to call back number was changed and site removed from the internet.

Dollars Lost: $900

Date Reported: April 16, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Other

"The order you placed with TicketSmarter is confirmed! This e-mail, however, is not your tickets. You can expect your seller to have your tickets by Fri, Aug 15 and send them to you that day or the next available ship day." I ordered tickets for a concert which is on August 16, 2025. After all was filled out and completed, this was the message I received on the confirmation email. I called, left a message to call me. They did and I missed it. I called back at ###-###-#### caller ID (recording everyone busy) getting nowhere, left my number again. I then called my credit card company who said to call them back in three days as it has not posted. I told her I am concerned because of the message above. SHE misread when she said "Ticketmaster" and I said NO! You did the same thing I did! To be clear, if the seller EXPECTS to have the tickets on the 15th, there is NO WAY I would get them before the concert the next day. Thank you!

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Date Reported: April 14, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketsmarter

Retail Business - retail business imposter

We reached out to Ticketmaster to request a refund and the purchase new tickets and to verify who my wife was and that they had the correct ticket information they requested she send them gift cards and apple payments to a specific number. This was her first time purchasing online tickets and was not aware of the process. She sent them $3,000 in mixed Apple Cash and Apple gift cards and kept asking for more. Once I got involved and asked questions they hung up. All employees my wife spoke to (5 individuals) all had heavy Indian accents.

Dollars Lost: $3000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: March 19, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster imposter

Online Purchase - Online Ticket Purchase

I thought I was buying the tickets from the proper venue for a magician show. Thought it was weird that they were asking for US currency when the venue was in Canada. After being charged $689 Canadian for $300 tickets I looked into my purchase. When I found out I was directed to the tickets on sale.com website instead of ticketmaster. I realized the issue. These guys charged me double the price. I called to cancel the order and they refused to cancel my order. Claimed all sales were final. My credit card was billed immediately and the visa could not stop the payment. One hour later I received the tickets from ticket master. I was ripped off $300. Be aware of this website. They will rip you off and charge you double the price of the actual cost of tickets.

Dollars Lost: $300

Unknown Location

Date Reported: March 19, 2025

Business Name Used: N/A

Online Purchase - Ticketmaster Imposter Scam

There is full blown fraud happening with Ticketsmarter event sales. They promote tickets to events on Facebook and use Ticketmaster as the attracting link and then when you click the date and time, it directs you to their site, you fraudulently are led to purchase tickets, and they wait until the day of the show and tell you the seller does not have them and they force you into seats with obstructed views or refuse to offer seats in general and do not deliver the original product. They have left hundreds of people in the lurch without tickets, some who spend thousands of dollars to travel out of town. I spent $2,000 to travel to Denver; Colorado and they never sent the tickets that were purchased and forced us to accept obstructed view tickets when we requested a refund. This is a full bait and switch operation. I see hundreds of complaints adding up online detailing identical situations and I would like to report this to get them stopped. Can someone please reply to let me know if any action is taken? [email protected], 307-287-7081

Dollars Lost: $200

Denver, CO

Date Reported: March 8, 2025

Business Name Used: TicketSmarter

Online Purchase - Ticketmaster Imposter

I thought I was contacting Ticketmaster and I was told there was an issue with my Tickets and that I had to send $100 Apple Cash in order to get the hold off of my tickets. I realized it’s a scam before I got scammed.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: March 2, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Imposter

Employment - Employment/Travel

The man identified himself as Mark, a co-founder who had been working at this company for the last 14 years, stated his company has famous clients like the CEO of Ticketmaster and that we would be receiving 2k-3k a week booking travel. Wanted us to buy a subscription for this travel agent license through BWJ 'Travel With Confidence' and after that to give him the number of the training? license or whatever. It was frustrating to see this again, as I have seen other scams similar. Wanted to warn others. Do not pay it, it will not result in a job.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: February 10, 2025

Business Name Used: Elite Business Trips Co-Imposter

Phishing

I recently purchased tickets off of Ticketmaster. I went to the Ticketmaster website to view my tickets and print. The tickets did not print so I called Ticketmaster. The number I provided. It was a scammer trying to get me to buy a apple card. To repurchase the tickets. The scammer told me they were sent back to stock. And I had to repurchase different tickets. Major scam. They had some of my information but I could tell the person on the phone was completely bogus.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

NA, IL

Date Reported: February 6, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Corp - IMPOSTER

Tech Support

I needed to talk with Ticketmaster, because I was having trouble getting tickets online. I google the phone number for Ticketmaster and called them, well although the lady was very nice and helpful, she was a scammer, she made me believe she was with Ticketmaster and helping me. when it came time to pay, she informed me that I needed to pay with Ticketmaster wallet, because of all the scam that was going on, she couldn't take my credit card information over the phone, that I would need to pay with a Ticketmaster card, Xbox card or eBay. I bought the Xbox card. gave her the number, then she tells me that they are having a problem with the card, that I needed to buy another one, and that they would refund me the Xbox money to my Ticketmaster wallet, which I don't have. then she said, I would need to put $150.00 in my Ticketmaster wallet to activate the wallet, and that's when I realized, that it was a scam. they need to be taken off the website

Dollars Lost: $200

Not None, CA

Date Reported: January 15, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Support - IMPOSTER

Other

I was asked to download deskany(red and white logo). Then, I was promoted to agree to access to my phone, when the screen warned me not to allow large companies to access my phone. This was all due to an error message, when trying to purchase tickets. The lady said there are a lot of errors more, due to someone hacking Ticketmaster.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Date Reported: January 14, 2025

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Retail Business

I called what I thought was Ticketmaster customer number to change the email account on my Ticketmaster account. He told me since I had upcoming tickets purchased, they could not be transferred to new email. He needed to cancel order and then I re purchase. Once cancelled he say he was not allowed to take my credit card info and I had to pay with prepaid card. Theatres that my tickets ( to a sold out concert) would be gone if I did not pay with prepaid card. I have voice mail proof of this as well.

Dollars Lost: $350

Date Reported: December 24, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Online Purchase - Craigslist Football tickets

Dylan Pine texted me after I made contact through Craigslist. I sent $170 for a Broncos ticket through BMO/Zelle and never received a ticket through Ticketmaster. Dylan then stopped responding to calls and texts.

Dollars Lost: $170

Grand Junction, CO

Date Reported: December 21, 2024

Business Name Used: Dylan Pine / Craigslist Football tickets

Online Purchase

Sister called customer service number for Ticketmaster because she was having issues transferring tickets for a concert which occur.rs today An individual had her download app veskin and purchase a giftcard for the amount of the ticket sales. They attempted to have her grant them access to her phone so that they could get the gift card information, stating that they wanted to verify that the funds were on the card so that they could refund her the money and then refund her the ticket amount as well. Sister denied to give them phone access and hung up.

Dollars Lost: $315

Unknown

Date Reported: December 9, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster.com

Online Purchase - Online Purchase - Ticketmaster Support

This number is listed in Google search as the contact line for help with Ticketmaster tickets. I gave the person my ticket confirmation number but hung up before giving financial information when it seemed suspicious. Indeed it was not Ticketmaster

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Atlanta, GA

Date Reported: December 7, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Support line IMPOSTER

Other

Website is made to look like Ticketmaster & even takes you events calendar Tried to call the number… no response Texts received refuses to cancel ticket order placed this morning Refuses to refund money

Dollars Lost: $1500

Date Reported: November 18, 2024

Business Name Used: Tickets-Center Ticketmaster IMPOSTER

Online Purchase - Online purchase

I unfortunately fell victim to a concert ticket scam. I was looking to purchase tickets for a concert tomorrow, 11/10/24. Found a seller on the Facebook website. They confirmed images of the tickets, even provided a 2nd screenshot showing apps minimized to show our convo and ticket receipt. I shared some concern about how legit the purchase would actually be, but was reassured the tickets would be transferred via Ticketmaster w resale ticket option. Did not catch onto the red flags yet. Advised apple payment ($450) would need to be provided then tickets would be sent via Ticketmaster. A!er payment was sent, they sent a screenshot from Ticketmaster saying an additional $50 would be needed to change the name on the tickets. That is when my first red flag popped up, and I googled the info via Ticketmaster and it said they would not charge a fee to transfer tickets to a new name. I asked them to send the tickets first, then I would pay the additional money needed. They then proceeded to say the $50 would need to be sent first before tickets were provided. When I asked to hop on phone call, they said they were at work until 11PM. I said I could wait, then they started to get aggressive and said they would sell to someone else. Even sent me screenshots of a convo with another buyer. They said they would send me back my money, so when I said that they could sell to the other buyer, the called me dumb and demanded I send the additional money or else I would get no tickets and they would take my money, so went into full panic mode. I immediately tried calling Apple pay to stop the transaction, who then sent me to my bank to stop the transaction - my bank then told me I would have to file a claim and to call my local police station, called the police station who then directed me to report it to this FBI website.

Dollars Lost: $450

San Diego, CA

Date Reported: November 12, 2024

Business Name Used: Allison Smith

Online Purchase - Ticketmaster

I must of gotten my card skimmed and someone purchased tickets for something on thicket master and ticket masters customer service is like talking to a brick wall

Dollars Lost: $1626

Unknown Location

Date Reported: November 7, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Online Purchase

I was looking for Billie Eilish tickets when their TikTok showed up on my fyp. When I asked about the tickets they gave me the information on them and said to send money and they’ll send me the tickets. I asked for the Tickets first but did not check properly on the information of the tickets and sent the money. Later the person deleted their TikTok and took my money. I have Screenshots of the situation and their number as well as the Apply Pay transaction number.

Dollars Lost: $360

Date Reported: November 6, 2024

Business Name Used: Tiktok - IMPOSTER

Other - Venmo - Concert Tickets

Matt Slowiak posted in the Chicago Board Game Group on Facebook that he had 4 tickets to Taylor Swift's show in Indy on November 2nd and was selling for $500 each. I reached out to him on September 2nd, and he replied on September 17th to say they were still available. He even included a screenshot of his phone going from out conversation, into the Ticketmaster app with the tickets. I replied on September 22nd to see if they were still available, and he said yes and "Venmo or Zelle work for the payment and the tickets will be transferred to you immediately you purchase them". I asked if I could buy one for $500 and he said yes. I Venmoed the money to @Lucky_Dragon who he said was his partner, MaryJane, and the account name was MaryJane Fantanilla. I sent $500 on Thursday, October 31st. He then showed me a video recording of him inputting my information into the Ticketmaster transfer section. I didn't receive the ticket for 10 minutes and then he sent me a screenshot saying that he was unable to send just one ticket and would need to send all 4 and asked for me to send the rest of the money. I told him I would not do that. He offered to refund me, I said yes, he agreed and said he would this morning. I still had not received the money after 4 hours, he said he would check with MaryJane, and two hours later I sent a request on Venmo directly. The Venmo request was then declined, and then he blocked me on Facebook. I've reported this to Facebook and to Venmo.

Dollars Lost: $500

New Lenox, IL- 60451

Date Reported: November 1, 2024

Business Name Used: Matt Slowiak - MaryJane Fontanilla @Lucky_Dragon on Venmo

Online Purchase

I was scammed into sending $700 for 2 tickets to the Taylor Swift concert in New Orleans. The Instagram page "erastour_resell_tickets" presented itself like a broker between sellers and buyers for Taylor Swift concert tickets. Once they contacted the seller and gave me the PayPal account to send the payment to (via friends and family bc they "didn't want to be charged a fee from PayPal"), they were supposed to transfer the tickets into my Ticketmaster account. That never happened. They (the Instagram page) claimed that they suddenly were having issues with the seller ([email protected]). They said the seller wanted to sell all 4 tickets that they had at one time, instead of the 2 that was initial agreed upon, and I made sure to get confirmation that the seller was only selling me the 2 tickets. Erastour_resell_tickets then tried to convince to just buy the remaining 2 tickets and the seller would be happy and would then approve the transfer of the tickets to my Ticketmaster account. It was at that point that I realized I was being scammed and immediately asked for a refund. They said no problem and that they would contact the seller. The refund never came and the Instagram page blocked me. I am so livid and frustrated bc I was simply trying to surprise my wife with the tickets she had been dreaming about.

Dollars Lost: $700

Unknown Location

Date Reported: October 23, 2024

Business Name Used: Instagram erastour_resell_tickets

Phishing

I couldn’t get my Ticketmaster tickets on my phone. I called a number on the website that said “contact us”. So I believed the person who answered was from Ticketmaster. After many questions he asked me to send pictures of the card I used to buy the tickets and I did. Then he said I had to buy an Apple Card for the amount of the tickets. I did and gave him the card number. He wanted more and finally I caught on and hung up. I am disturbed that this number was on ticker master’s website as a legitimate number.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Longmont, CO

Date Reported: September 30, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Online Purchase

I went to order tickets off of ticketmaster.com, the website that came up and had pretended to be ticketmaster.com was tickets master that's spelled t i c k e t s m a s t e r. com. The tickets originally on Ticketmaster were $55 a piece and this website they were almost tripled the cost of the original cost at Ticketmaster. I was going to pay $110 at ticketmaster.com and this other place wanted to charge me $388 which is a quite a bit a difference than the original cost.

Dollars Lost: $388

Unknown Location

Date Reported: September 30, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketsmaster-Imposter

Online Purchase - Online Purchase -Ticket Sales Scam

Reached out to them looking for nfl tickets. I purchased 3 tickets and parking for $653. Gave them my email they asked for that’s associated with my Ticketmaster account and paid via Apple Pay. They gave they excuse that the transfer of the tickets weren’t going through. I asked for refund and confirmation number and never heard from them. This happened on August 22, 2024. Neither my bank, Apple Pay, Ticketmaster nor the Philadelphia Eagles couldn’t do anything for me. I lost my money and I have been stressed out since all this occurred. I do have screenshots of their post, our conversation, and texts.

Dollars Lost: $653

Downingtown, PA- 19335

Date Reported: September 27, 2024

Business Name Used: Elaine Saunders

Online Purchase

Someone hacked into my ticketmaster account. Transferred my concert tickets ($650) to their account. Now, they are reselling my stolen tickets. Ticketmaster advertise that the resellers are verified and can be trusted. Well, they are selling stolen tickets from people that actually paid for by hacking to their ticketmaster account.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: September 26, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster - IMPOSTER

Online Purchase - Ticketsoar

I was searching for tickets for an event at Kettle Amphitheater in Missoula, MT. I was in Ticketmaster site on August 11, 2024. When I went back to confirm, there was an offer for tickets at $20 cheaper price. I clicked on that link thinking it was Ticketmaster, which I now can't find, and purchased tickets. I didn't realize this was a scam until I got my bank statement with $311.90 charged to Ticketsoar and could not find a website for a legitimate business.

Dollars Lost: $311

Date Reported: September 9, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketsoar

Other - Taylor Swift

Facebook post of Selling Taylor Swift tickets showing a screen shot of tickets from Ticketmaster. Then when messaging asked for a friends and family PayPal to a males email address.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: September 8, 2024

Business Name Used: Friends facebook

Online Purchase - Ticketsonsale.com

I ordered concert tickets back on April 26,2024. I received an email to which I thought contained the tickets so I've kept it in my saved emails until now it's time for the concert and I went in the email and tickets weren't there! I had to contact them by several ways to log in and and finally asking hitting the help button which they just gave me the round around and to jump thru hoops to log in and hit buttons to transfer tickets after an hour of doing this u tried one last time to contact by the help button because there wasn't any other options to use the person who I was talking to last was a Christopher and somehow the screen blinked which was weird and they had disconnected me. I will try to call today but feel I won't get anywhere with this and all I wanted was just to get my tickets. I have reported this to the FTC and next my bank but wanted to report here as well so if it can help out any other people to prevent the same thing from happening!! I have attachments I can show you.

Dollars Lost: $138

Unknown Location

Date Reported: September 7, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketsonsale.com

Phishing

On 9/4/2024 I was trying to buy tickets on TicketMaster.com via Klarna, however, both sites seemed to be acting wonky; going to payment then starting process all over again. I decided to try again 9/5/2024, but once I got to payment I decided to check my account to make sure funds were available. That’s when I saw a Klarna payment that was taken out from TicketMaster. I then checked my email for a confirmation of payment or the tickets, there was nothing. I did a Google search for TicketMaster and +1 (866) 581-6323 came up first so I chose this one to call. The man over the phone said in order to refund the Klarna payment he would have to cancel it and rebook my tickets with a TicketMaster or Target gift card and for my inconvenience the tickets would be $250 instead of the $378. I went to the store, got the gift card, read him off the numbers and after being put in hold multiple times because “Target gift cards take a bit longer than TicketMaster gift cards,” the phone eventually hung up after being on the call for 1hr and a half. I called back multiple times requesting a refund and was either hung up on or yelled at. A “supervisor” Adam Barrett was trying to convince me to go buy another gift card for $250 to receive a refund of the previous $250 and I would get the entire $500 back plus my initial Klarna payment. I did not do this and I disconnected the call. I reported this incident with Target case #*********, my bank, as well as local law enforcement (Nottoway County Sheriff’s Office) through a police report case #********* In. no. **********.

Dollars Lost: $250

Unknown Location

Date Reported: September 6, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticket Master Imposter

Phishing - Ticketmaster Impostor

Tried to get the consumer to purchase a gift card. Attempted consumer to by 2 target gift cards. Then, again 2 more apple cards.

Dollars Lost: $427

Date Reported: September 6, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Impostor

Online Purchase - Facebook Hack

Person hacked a facebook account of someone my family member knew. Posted concert tickets for sale. I sent them money for tickets and did not receive them. They refused to send me tickets or refund my money and blocked me. They were sending pictures of the ticketmaster purchase, how they would transfer tickets, etc.

Dollars Lost: $800

Unknown Location

Date Reported: September 5, 2024

Business Name Used: Julia Poff

Online Purchase - Online Purchase - Ticketmaster *SPOOFER*

Needed support from ticketmaster and searched the phone number on google. When I called the number they claimed to be ticketmaster and said they could help to get full refund. They gave a code that turned out to be an Apple gift card. My fault but they took me for $409. They have continued to call my number and reach out to me even when I block the number. Today they called to tell me my amazon account has suspicious activity for $700. I checked my account and nothing. Clearly scammers......

Dollars Lost: $409

Simcoe, ON-

Date Reported: August 29, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster *SPOOFER*

Online Purchase - Online Purchase Scam

This person claimed to be selling Taylor Swift Tickets. He sent screen shots of the tickets in ticketmaster and said he would transfer after I paid. I paid via Paypal and he never transferred the ticket. Told he he now has my money and laughed at me.

Dollars Lost: $520

Unknown Location

Date Reported: August 20, 2024

Business Name Used: N/A

Retail Business - Ticketmaster Imposter

Googled How to reach Ticketmaster for no barcode on tickets, got this phone number. Called and was told I needed another 150 dollars to activate the barcode, but it would be refunded. I hung up and looked again at google for actual Ticketmaster number. When reached they told me there was a delay in the barcode, would appear three days before concert. So the 8772016694 number is a fraud and scam.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: August 5, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster

Phishing

The guy acting like he work for Ticketmaster I even have the text messages of him gloating abt scamming people out of money and I definitely want him to be arrested or some type of punishment because I’m out of money and he thinking it’s a game or joke not too mention I going on Facebook to see they have beaten other people out of money also

Dollars Lost: $1100

Beverly Hills, CA

Date Reported: August 3, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster Imposter

Online Purchase

My tickets was cancelled due to my knowledge wen I went to see about what happened the First Lady told me that for me to keep my tickets I would first purchase a Ticketmaster gift card to rebuy the tickets and to get refunded for the first tickets ok I did that not only did I do that so now I’m outta 600 so then I get another rep by the name of Jerry miller too tell me now I have to put another 400$ on a target gift card because there is no ticket master box office so now he is telling me to add 305.00 on a gf just to get a refund

Dollars Lost: $1100

West Hollywood, CA- 90069

Date Reported: August 3, 2024

Business Name Used: Tictetmaster - IMPOSTER

Online Purchase - TicketSqueeze.com

I was attempting to buy Broadway tickets online. This was my first time doing so, and I tried to make sure I went directly to the venue to avoid scammers. This business, TicketSqueeze, maintains a website that is branded for the venue with misleading language/branding that made it appear to be the legitimate venue, with the links to the only valid ticket sales. It also contains misleading language promising the ticket sales are the only way to avoid inflated fees. The website also shows up at the top of Google results when searching for the show's venue. After a weird, sketchy ticket delivery process, it became clear that this website and company (TicketSqueeze.com) are a reseller marketplace that had inflated the ticket price and fees by over 30%. I'm not sure the tickets are even valid, as they did not come from a legitimate company, but rather an individual. The contact phone number listed on the website goes to a completely other company (Ticketmaster) and is not even in use anymore. I'll be pursuing this further with my credit card company and the customer support.

Dollars Lost: $284

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 22, 2024

Business Name Used: TicketSqueeze.com

Online Purchase

i orderd tickets from this webiste that claims to have sold millions and when i went to check ticketmaster becuase they transfer the tickets to them the seller canceld the xfer and took my money. This webiste that claims to sell tickets did NOTHING to help me

Dollars Lost: $338

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 10, 2024

Business Name Used: TICKETSONSALE.COM

Retail Business - Retail business imposter

called looking for tickets to an event. they represented themselves as ticketmaster representative. attempted to sell us tickets. then said they couldn't accept CC or other back payment then requested we purchase a gift card. stopped the transaction there.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 8, 2024

Business Name Used: ticket master imposter

Phishing - Phishing - Ticketmaster *SPOOFER*

I was trying to exchange my concert tickets as I had accidentally purchased the wrong date. I tried to fix the issue through the Ticketmaster app but was having hard time trying to figure out how to speak to an actual human. I searched on Google for the ticket master customer service # and unfortunately called a Ticketmaster imposter. Everything they said was very convincing and they kept reassuring me I would get my money back in a few moments. They completely cleared me out. By the time I got off the phone with them it was too late for me to exchange/return my tickets. I was too broke to even go to the concert and was only able to sell 1/2 tickets in an attempt to get my money back.

Dollars Lost: $692

Unknown Location

Date Reported: July 8, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster *SPOOFER*

Tech Support - Tech support/business imposter

I called this number thinking it was Ticketmaster, but they tried to tell me they had to canx my ticket request and then I would have to pay again and then processed to call and harass me from another number.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Date Reported: July 4, 2024

Business Name Used: Ticketmaster imposter

Other - Matt Slowiak-Apex Abodes Apartments

This person pretended to be my husbands friend from work. He offers 4 Taylor Swift concert tickets for $500 each. Payments are to be made through Zelle. Luckily Zelle only allows $500 to be transferred per day for new recipients. He used the email [email protected] as his Zelle account email. Once I transferred the $500 he was to transfer one ticket, but claimed Ticketmaster wouldn't allow him to break up the tickets, which got me suspicious because Ticketmaster does allow you to transfer only one. As I looked into the email account I noticed it was linked to Apex Abodes Apartments, which doesn't exist.

Dollars Lost: $500

New Lenox, IL

Date Reported: June 25, 2024

Business Name Used: Matt Slowiak-Apex Abodes Apartments

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