Chinanews.com, March 2. Recently, many singers have officially announced their concert itineraries, and topics such as "many concerts" have been on the hot searches one after another.

On the 2nd, the WeChat official account of the Internet Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security published an article reminding of possible ticket purchase scams, which listed four routines.

　　Routine 1: On the eve of the sale of official concert tickets, scammers everywhere claim that there are official ticket sales channels, or insiders, who can buy very tight tickets and attract fans to take the bait.

When fans are ready to buy tickets, they will demand payment for the price with various reasons such as deposits and labor costs, and even say that the ticket needs to be re-marked for payment before the ticket can be issued, in order to defraud more money.

When the fans found out that they were cheated and asked for a refund, they were blocked and could not contact the "insiders".

　　Routine 2: On the eve of the concert, the scammer lied that he had bought the ticket but couldn’t go because of something at home, or broke up with his ex and "tearfully transferred", approached the victim's ticket on some second-hand trading websites, and blocked him when he got the money.

　　Routine 3: Scammers usually lurk in social software groups such as WeChat and QQ in advance and post ticket information.

Once someone has taken the bait, there are usually two ways to scam.

One is to send fake website links to ask fans to pay through the website. Most fans think that the platform payment is safe and guaranteed, and they pay directly, but what they never want to enter is a phishing website.

The second is to tell fans that they need to pay a deposit first before shipping, and pay the balance after receiving the tickets.

The transaction process seems to be no problem, but the tickets received by the fans are very likely to be counterfeit and high-quality imitation tickets.

　　Routine 4: Around the concert site, there are often some people selling "yellow tickets".

Fans are eager to get votes, so they are often easily deceived.

These tickets not only have a high premium, but most of them are counterfeit tickets. When the fans enter the venue with the tickets, they realize that they have been deceived.

(China New Finance and Economics)