![]() ![]() In September 2011, The Jakarta Globe ran an article headlined ‘Metal Heads Rejoice: Motley Crue Headed for Jakarta’. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, not even the concerts being advertised are real. She paid Rp.29.9 million ($3,000) for them and received nothing. ![]() University student Farah Farizky saw 13 tickets for Jennifer Lopez’s Jakarta concert advertised in a thread on Kaskus. The more popular the artist, the higher the cost of a fake ticket. One fan, Andre from North Sumatra, had purchased two tickets, via an online forum for Rp.800,000 each, only to be informed at the venue they were worthless. When poncy English songster Morrissey staged a sell-out show in Jakarta last year, fans flew in from across Indonesia. A Twitter account and Facebook pages, mimicking those of the official promoter, were also registered to direct fans to the phony sites. In the weeks before Justin Bieber performed at Sentul International Convention Centre in April 2011, two websites – one slightly authentic, the other laughable – were set up to sell fake tickets. Cyber scamming is cheaper than printing counterfeit tickets, which can require special paper, inks, watermarks and holograms. The main tools for scamming would-be concertgoers are Facebook, Twitter, online forums such as Kaskus, mobile phone text messages and fraudulent websites. ![]()
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