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As with all big tour announcements, the vultures are out and preparing to scam unsuspecting music fans with no exception made for The Stone Roses reunion.
Stereoboard.com has identified a highly suspicious looking website, www.theticketwebsite.net, which has been advertising heavily on Google and targetting The Stone Roses fans this morning to part with their hard earned cash.
Springing up out of nowhere recently, www.theticketwebsite.net, registered on September 28th 2011, has only a mailbox as it's address, the same address incidently which ticketindex.net used, and a voice over IP phone line that could be answered anywhere in the world. In addition, there are no limited company details or details of who the owner, or proprietor, of the business actually is. And of course, there is no trading history or record of any happy customers.
Should you choose to buy from this website, chances are you will find yourself going around in circles trying to get an answer on where your tickets are right up to days before the gigs before realising you've been scammed. Stereoboard understands the website has absolutely no allocation of tickets from any promoter.
The website was created on the 28th of September this year and so has no trading history, with some believing it to be setup by the owners of the recently shut down Ticketindex.net scam operation - which fleeced Take That fans to the tune of £5m earlier this year - and currently suject to a police investigation. Check out the registration details below.
On Show Tickets
Charles Devine ()
Apartado 540
EC Areias de st joao, Albufeira 82001998
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Created: 2011-09-28
The website, www.theticketwebsite.net, isn’t the only suspected scam site in operation of course, there are many around. Other scam sites may appear over the coming days and weeks, as current sites get shut down and more ticket fraudsters take advantage of the unusual demand for big events going onsale before Xmas and taking place in 2012.
Tickets for The Stone Roses sold-out within record time this morning, Friday 21st October, however, these unscrupulous operators will attempt to take advantage of the huge demand for tickets by defrauding UK consumers.
Stereoboard advises to only buy tickets from official outlets, such as Ticketline, See Tickets, Gigantic and Ticketmaster. When tickets for a show are sold out we advise you compare and purchase tickets with the trusted and guaranteed exchange sites that we work with such as Viagogo, Seatwave and GetMeIn.
All other sites are either brokers, speculators (selling Stone Roses tickets they do not have possession of), or fraudsters. Stereoboard.com runs a black-list of scam websites to help music fans avoid being ripped off. The ticket scam black-list can be viewed at www.stereoboard.com/ticket-scams.
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In February 2011, Stereoboard produced a viral video to warn fans against disreputable tout ticket sellers. ‘Access All Areas’, which has received over 30,000 views so far, follows the fate of a group of music fans who opt to go ‘off road’ obtaining their tickets unofficially, to blag their way backstage at a major gig. They ultimately get left out in the cold in the video. The film can we viewed at www.youtube.com/StereoboardTV or you can of course view the video below.
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