Scam victim: “I even negotiated with the seller and told him I don’t earn much. And he agreed to sell me two tickets for $700. He seemed sincere, and I kept thanking him for helping me.”
She was a concert ticket scam victim nine years ago, but desperate for two tickets to Taylor Swift’s concert next March, she paid $700 to a “reseller” on Carousell.
This is more than the 199 victims who were duped in such scams in the whole of 2022. The amount lost so far this year was almost triple the $175,000 lost to such scams in the whole of 2022.Her queue number was 300,000 on her laptop, but she got a better number on her mobile phone, of around 20,000. She said: “I even negotiated with the seller and told him I don’t earn much. And he agreed to sell me two tickets for $700. He seemed sincere, and I kept thanking him for helping me.”
He said they might suspect the reseller is a scammer, but that desire to get tickets is so huge it overrides any potential risk of being scammed.Dr Reuben Ng, a behavioural scientist and assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, said for some, it’s about bragging rights. The police said Twitter was the most common platform on which victims fell prey to Taylor Swift concert ticket scams. Other platforms scammers used included Carousell, Xiaohongshu, Telegram and Facebook.
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