The Scam Alert Blog

It appears that 1000 Barbra Streisand concert tickets are now invalid after it was determined they were bought with a stolen credit card and then resold. Hopefully this doesn’t affect you.

This points out yet another way of being scammed. You could be purchasing a perfectly legitimate item like a concert ticket and it could be perfectly authentic, as in this case as they came straight from TicketMaster, but if they were purchased with a stolen credit card it won’t matter - your tickets will be invalidated or confiscated.

Knowing who you’re buying from is an important part of an online transaction. The best deal may be from the guy operating a part-time business out of his spare bedroom, but the safer deal may be buying from a known entity. If you’re truly wanting to buy something off the secondary market, there are some venues (ebay, amazon, etc.) that have feedback ratings that will at least give you a little more assurance of completing the deal satisfactory.

Don’t get scammed,
Mark