The summer of 2022 has been big for concerts. With serious cases of COVID-19 in decline, arenas are filling up as music artists, largely dormant for two years, are touring again.
Concert tickets these days aren’t cheap, but music fans who have run into the Ticketmaster imposter scam have paid even more – sometimes not getting tickets at all.
Recent reports to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) suggest scammers are profiting by pretending to represent popular ticket seller Ticketmaster. Some have gone to great lengths, even producing look-alike Ticketmaster websites that show up in search engine results.
According to the BBB, there are several versions of this scam. Some victims have reported that they received tickets with someone else’s name on them.
After paying, some say they never received any tickets at all. In other cases, the purchaser received the tickets, but the imposter site charged a much higher rate than advertised.
Upon closer inspection, consumers discover they were not on the Ticketmaster site at all, but one that had a similar name and was almost identical to Ticketmaster. Many consumers reported that when they called the customer service number, there was no answer. When someone did answer, some victims said they got no help.
“They sent me two tickets with someone else’s name on them, and they also charged me three times the amount [of] the ticket price,” one victim reported. “I have no way to get a refund and no…
