Two Patriots Fans Lose $2,800 In Fake Ticket Scam
BOSTON (CBS) - It seems no matter how many warnings officials issue, sports fans will fall into the trap of buying bogus tickets for big events. This year's Super Bowl is just the latest example.
Two best friends from Boston just lost $2,800 in a ticket scam. Matt and David, who don't want their last names used, answered an ad on Craigslist. They drove to Stamford, Connecticut where they met a guy with a solid back-story.
"He said my dad is a Pats season ticket holder that's how we got them," David explains.
WBZ-TV's Jim Armstrong reports
"I was drilling him with questions," says Matt. "How'd you get them, where are you and your dad staying?" But the seller had polished answers at the ready, and made the guys believe he and his dad would even be setting next to them in Indy.
They paid $1,400 cash each for two tickets with face values of $800.
"I just kept looking at it all the way home and in the pit of my stomach something didn't feel right," according to David. "It just seemed too good to be true."
He brought the pair to Ace Tickets, where it took three professional brokers to figure out that the guys got scammed.
According to David, the Ace Tickets employees, "said it's a really good fake, it's the best fake we've seen, but it's a fake."
The tickets have holograms and bar codes – even the square scan code on the back, when you run your smartphone over it, brings you to the Super Bowl website.
The guys know they were taking a risk, but they're still disappointed.
"You would like to think that there are still good, honest people out there," Matt said.
"It was all ready to go and now, I don't even know if I want to watch the game," said David.
