Four young women and a middle-aged woman have separately fallen victim to concert ticket scams related to the same music event, resulting in a total loss of 12,668 yuan (14,110 patacas), Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chao Teng Hin said during a regular press conference yesterday.
According to Chao, the police received reports from the five victims between Saturday and Sunday. The victims told the police that they had been defrauded while attempting to purchase tickets for an international music event recently held at a resort in Cotai. The victims learnt about the ticket sales through online platforms or social media and proactively contacted the “seller”, who also used these channels to negotiate ticket prices.
After transferring the specified amounts as instructed, the victims never received their tickets. On the day of the concert, when they tried to reach the “seller” to request the tickets, they discovered that they had been blocked and that the “seller” was unreachable.
Suspecting they had been scammed, the victims separately reported the cases to the police on Saturday and Sunday. Chao noted that the total amount lost was 12,668 yuan, with the highest individual loss being 6,000 yuan and the lowest 971 yuan.
