...because people are dumb enough to validate scalpers. Leaving the WalMart today I saw the first panhandlers in years at the lot entrance, where they used to stand at the exit side. They're never locals and people who drive here and park in the lot somewhere, You can find these people's clan if you look. The local police started arresting and processing them, which stopped the problem. On the way out I was behind a few cars and the light was green. Well the idiot in front of me stopped, and it wasn't because the person was blocking the road out in front of them. I started going around them and then they started going. The idiots were going to validate the person and give them something, which is the worst thing you can do. I saw the religious bumper sticker on their car and thought you idiots, you're just validating this nonsense and getting it going again if you stop and give to them
@@billg7205met a homeless guy on a grayhound bus once. Dude had about 20k in cash. Says he's makes about 36 or so from Thanksgiving to Xmas and just lives off of it. This was in a small town too that he was doing it in.
@@louistournas120 Everyone else gets it including you. It's not "Christian" to be validating those people by funding them. They're just inviting those people to return and create uncomfortable and potentially worse situations for the rest of us.
It is insane lol. My sister missed out on the first round of tickets due to Ticketmaster's glitches but they offered people chances to get more and they got to name the price, she ended up getting two tickets for $200 each that other people were buying for $15K each.
X showed a lot of honor by giving back to victims. I'm sad he got caught up in this scam. Be careful when working online. If something looks shady, it probably is.
No way he didn’t fucking know. That shit didn’t make any business sense. You’re just going to handle my money and I’ll pay you a percentage just don’t ask a lot of questions 🙄🙄
Scarcity and really wanting something will make you do that. During the chip shortage people well overpaid for graphics cards for their PCs; same idea for Swift tickets.
As a Nigerian, am disappointed at my brothers and sisters scamming people, yes the country is hard but we can channel this out scamming skills into something productive.
@@chiefobi4341 Don't call them "your brothers and sisters" mate, reject such people from your society, make them feel they are not part of your country, as they work hard to build a bad image for Nigeria. Do you think many Germans would associate themselves with Hitler ... no, as the nazis those scammers are just scum.
It’s so sad that there are so many dishonest people who take advantage of people and that so many honest people aren’t trusted and get really offended if you ask for proof of their honesty
@@PennyWise-eu9nz I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I took advantage of people like that but as my Grandmother would say God Bless You Child as she firmly believed that everyone is a child of God
There is a phrase of "There's a sucker born every minute". Scamming will always be a thing, just have to get better at the techniques (I'm not advocating for scamming but explaining why scams are still a thing), not only that as newer kids get online, and are too hard headed to listen to the adults, you can scam newer kids with older techniques (I give it 10 years before NFTs are popular again lol)
@@Keith03820 "As a American I know who are scammers and hacked accounts" ==It is easy, you tell them to get on the webcam and you do a chat. That will tell you if it is a hacked account.
@@afriend6286 Watch the very next video uploaded after this. He is promoting the mystery box undelivered mail scam for quick buck. Doesn't even reveal he is sponsored(we know he is). There's no such thing as easy money. Edit: He deleted that video, due to all the negative feedback he received... let's see what happens next.. will he adress his wrong doing and apologize, or will he pretend nothing ever happened.
Your videos are so amazing, eye opening. Not everyone knows what goes on behind scenes and you do a great job showing them. This is a perfect balance of educational and entertainment content!
This only shows how FB is a trash platform. They allow these scams to happen but ban people left and right if they try to report felonies. META is a dying company.
Props to X for really trying to get out of the shady business, that’s not terribly common these days. Also loved how you really leaned into using as many Taylor Swift lyrics as possible 😂 well done.
Yeah, I was like totally sus of him to begin with. Like so many of them just straight up lie to keep going. So refreshing to see one of the few people with a legit conscious say no to the scammers!
I heard people paying 10 20 grand for these tickets. I understand people love music so do I. But I would never pay a life changing amount of money for a ticket.
I feel like it's kind of awful that people have that kind of money and that's what they spend it on, or they're teaching their kids that that's a good use of money. Although it's all relative, I have more stuff than someone living in poverty might think I would need.
@@sarahberkner yeah true someone poor might not think you need something’s you have and I’m fine someone spending their money how they please I like to just like anyone else. But in saying that most of these people don’t have that kind of money I mean it’s called the one percent for a reason. These people are going into debt for a concert and most are doing it to say they went instead of actually enjoying it. It’s like people going to cochela they’re not doing it for the fun of it they’re doing it to make others jealous.
It could happen to anyone, but not everyone is going to pay that much for tickets, and being desperate about getting tickets to a show is a problem. A first world problem.
The only way to ever stop ticket scalping is to sell the tickets themselves at these ridiculous prices. It's impossible to stop scalping unless they take your ID at check out and compare that ID to the person entering the venue or something ridiculous like that.
if we all had an implant i our necks , this wouldnt happen shes doing a world tour how can they be so hard tp get wheh the 1st thing people do is try to sell them ?
@@stigmaoftherose personalized/named tickets, at checkout you fill in your legal name, this name will be on the ticket. Easiest way to stop this mess. But Ticketmaster of course makes big money of reselling (Resale)… what business wouldn’t sell the same product twice…
@@stigmaoftheroseThese ticket sellers take your proof of identification, as well as payment information (credit card/debit cards) as you register with them.
I feel bad for kids whose parents will spend that kind of money for them, they're going to be surprised when things are no longer handed to them on a silver platter and they don't know how to manage your finances (I'm 28 lol but I wasn't spoiled rotten). Before Covid I went to a free concert and a Christmas concert for $70, both by well-known Christian groups, and also worked security at several concerts so I got to enjoy the music for free. And then Wicked (the traveling broadway show) 2 years ago was about $80. So not $20, but much closer to that than $10,000.
Thank you for calling this out! I wanted to go to another concert this summer and they are pulling this same scam with that artist too smh. Scammers are buying up all the tickets then reselling them for ridiculous prices on fb & instagram smh. They announced the tour and two days later several cities were already sold out but surprise surprise, the scammers were under the artists comments reselling tickets for those exact cities and ppl were falling for it!!🤦🏾♀️
All this mess could be easily fixed, with personalized/named tickets, at checkout you fill in your legal name, this name will be on the ticket. Easiest way to stop this mess. Ticketmaster even already has personalized tickets! But artists have to want it too…
That's how the Statue Of Liberty tickets go. To go to the crown you have to buy tickets months in advance and you have to put your name on the ticket when buying them so that scalpers can't just sell them to anyone.
@@anuvette you clearly misread or misunderstood. You don’t have to show your id at purchase, or submit it to some website. You only show it at the entrance to the human checking your ticket. To see if the name matches.
The evil part of me is glad that they got scammed Seriously 500 dollars !!!! For a ticket Yeah you don't deserve that money because you are not responsible adult
The consumer used to hold all the power for the price of goods/services - "The Power of the Purse", and then we lost that most awesome power when the well-to-do guy next door said he'd pay any price, even the most ridiculous price, and the seller never regarded the consumer as in control ever again.
I'm scambaiting someone right now, they're harmless to me. It's a romance scam that I have 0% chance of falling for and I'm not going to send them any money obviously.
Something similar to this happened to me in 2018, except at first, I was accepting payments for tarot and astrological readings for a reader overseas, then it turned into accepting payments for building materials. I eventually started getting messages demanding their money back and I found out that he was doing a rental scam and having the potential renters send the money to me. I immediately refunded their money and blocked the scammer. Then I closed my bank account and opened a new one.
Another terrific video showing more of how scammers operate & manipulate their mules & victims. Loved your editing to include Taylor's music clips! Thanks Ben 💜
X - your honesty and actions will not go unnoticed. It takes a lot to allow someone access into your accounts. Surely you will be rewarded for doing the right thing.
I’d understand hundreds of dollars if the artist was actually good but Taylor swift is pop garbage. Never understand thousands.. and how an artist can even justify thinking they’re worth that much per ticket.
Blame the bots and scalpers who use these bots. Ticketmaster and other companies who sell tickets to concerts should up their game against these bots and scalpers.
Same thing happened tona lot of people who are looking for Oogie Boogie Bash tickets at Disney's California Adventure. They joined a few Facebook groups and all the admins on those pages are scammers. They promise tickets, steal your money, and then block you from the page.
Zelle is VERY clear on the app and their website that your must NOT use their service to buy and sell with strangers. They practically scream it at you
Maybe not these ticket scams, but if you’re dumb enough to fall for all the other ridiculous scams then you’ll ignore those warnings if the scammer tells you to!
Honestly, I was paying around £5-£10 through the 90's too. I don't know how anyone can even afford these prices. I paid £80 to see Rush on their last UK tour and I thought that was insane.
@@time2132 Not entirely true nor a valid comparison. Wasn't uncommon before the industrial crash for people in the 70s without college degrees to make 30k+ working in industrial facilities. If you can get a job like that today, it will likely be more specialized and skilled, and likely not pay much more. The middle class has been being destroyed ever since then
I got scammed with baseball tickets before, the tickets were to a Phillies game, one of the semi finals games before the World Cup. I was 21 when this took place, I bought the tickets online from a guy, I met him to pick up the tickets, I got to the gate to go in & one of the tickets had been canceled, apparently he sold them to me then printed out new copies & used them to get in himself (at the time I didn’t know this was something you could do), I showed all proof to the stadium, they let my mom in free for her birthday as they felt bad, then when we got to our seats the staff had me identify the guy & they kicked both him & his friend out with no re-entry, even if they were to buy other tickets. All in all I appreciated what the stadium did for us but it still put a damper on her birthday. I will NEVER buy tickets for anything from an individual ever again.
These scams are popping up basically every time you mention “tickets” on social media. For any musician really, but with the Taylor Swift tickets mess they have found gold, unfortunately 😢
if it was me. I think I would rather risk the messages happening & tell them I am changing my account payment info & blocking you in X days & what ever happens, happens. The end. I would not want to keep accepting $ knowing it is a scam & having proof & keep getting pushed around. Yet I am glad you could help him.
In my opinion ticket master is still to blame for this. They royaly screwed up the initial sale and all of this could have been prevented with a staggered sale and linking rhe tickets to your identity like big music festivals do which almost entirely removes the 2nd hand market of these ticket touts and scammers
😂😂😂😂😂😂. The way you read that Nigerian pigin got me rolling on the floor.😂😂Lol . I am a Nigerian and in my country Nigeria 🇳🇬, we do not support fraud.
Online tickets can be handy for reselling, but it also opens the door to scams like this. I went to a concert last week where I didn't have the ticket until three days beforehand, and it was only via my phone app. It worked out okay, but it was unnerving to only have the _promise_ of a ticket for several months.
Two kinds of scammers in this situation the people saying they have resell and don't and then the people who do have resale and are charging stupid prices for them both are equally messed up
@AnDr3w066 Scalpers and scammers only exist because people pay thousands for tickets. This whole situation would not have occurred if people were more financially responsible. This is not to excuse low-lifes who scam and scalp, but if we show just a little restraint in our purchasing decisions we can very quickly stop that entire shady industry.
Lol, the girl who is crying "waiting in line" at her house was hilarious. I remember going to the mall and spending the night in a car, waiting in line while it rained, for over a day sometimes. I have no pity for these people. Sorry.
And I have no sympathy for stores like Target and Walmart getting stolen from by ALLEGED "thieves" in Portland Oregon or San Francisco because animals in factory farms suffer INFINITE WORSE torture. The choice is between these girls waiting in line for hours and being scammed/ not getting the tickets they sacrificed for versus girls waiting in line for hours and getting the tickets. THAT is the choice, dumbass.
I mean, at least Kiss actually good music lol (Despite you being scammed in thinking it was a farewell tour when they've gone on tour many times after lol)
@@nostalgicumbry3279 hahaha yes you are right. But at least I got to say goodbye to the original members on that tour. The other farewell tours after that are just filled with scabs. 😄
I was looking for a job the other day. It wasn't for your series I would have been scammed. Thanks for making this content. Actually it was kind of funny. Once I realized what it was. It's interesting how a scammer will continue to push you to click a link or sign up with them even after you've told them you have zero interest. They often out themselves when they feel like they're not going to win but it's funny when they try and recover to continue the scam anyway
Although I will never understand the desperation in getting any tickets for any concerts (nothing against Taylor Swift), Kudos to you for bringing all of this to the awareness of the population
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. While it's human nature to want what's popular, scarce or unavailable, what your friends (or online "friends") got, FOMO, etc., for some odd psychological reason, a subset of people get extremely desperate about such things. They'll go to incredible lengths and do shockingly risky or even immoral things to get them. I'm old enough to remember the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, and later, the Beanie Babies and Elmo crazes. More people than you would ever dare think would trample their own mother to get one of these meaningless things. Frickin' dolls! So, am I surprised when this happens during the Taylor Swift craze? Unfortunately, no. What's really sad is that the ticketing companies could solve (or at least greatly decrease) these problems. But since it doesn't affect their bottom lines - and in many cases, it enhances it - they do nothing other than make useless token gestures.
time was you queued at a ticket office just buy from ticket master shes doing aa WORLD tour its not Pink Floyds last 4 songs ,theres too many tickets to start with
If facebook took responsibility and helped people to quickly reclaim there accounts most of these scams would be short lived Facebook are a greedy self interested company. If you provide a product take responsibility
True. Their system is real bad. I have reported stolen Facebook accounts of people I have known through Facebook for different companies in my Province, and Facebook does nothing but look at the hacked profile page and say it looks fine, and they see nothing against TOS. It is ridiculous, and Facebook has become a very well known haven for scammers. It takes them a VERY long time to get caught, and by then the scammer can convince a victim to go off of Facebook and talk via mobile app or text or Google Chat. It is all very common. I remember the first Facebook account I reported was pretending to be the USA Government offering government grants during the 2020-2021 years, and the photo and name was taken from the FBI website from the contacts page. Reporting the page did nothing, so as a Canadian I actually found myself having to contact the USA FBI, which was crazy. Facebook just does not seem to care. They just are only interested in how much money they get from ads on their platform. What they say and do are two different things.
@@kabo0m Most of these scammers are overseas like Nigeria or anywhere around West Africa. I know it's not one of those neckbeards, there usually spend all day in their mother's basement watching hentai, anime or their hyperfixated on fake gay pro wrestling!!!!!
Ben, I once had a class with you! I am also a local musician. If you ever read this, you might consider looking into some of the scams around small time musicians. I have encountered quite a few anytime I post a song with hashtags on IG, Twitter, Etc. and they get pretty elaborate from fake record labels/executives to random “wealthy” people asking to write a song for their daughters birthday.
I want to know why the Taylor Swift team didn't take advantage of the face value resale option. It seems like they also contributed to this issue because they didn't opt in.
Thanks scammer for doing this. i support you on this. go go go, keep observe with this young generation. we need you help too keep scammer keep growing at same time you can help this channel grow
When i went to concerts, they cost $12-$16!! I'm sorry, but people are crazy to spend so much money on any singer!! But I'm not a Taylor Swift fan and I really don't get all the hype.
One thing i've realized about a lot of these facebook scammers and hackers, is they never change a certain thing. I'm not going to say what it is just in case they are watching. But, iykyk, and i know that PG knows because he talked about it in a video, but its so small that it's often overlooked.
I think Taylor Swift missed a real opportunity to protect her fans here by not taking advantage of the programme offered by Ticketmaster that prevented sellers from reselling the tickets higher than face value.
From what I understand the performer gets blocks of tickets for free to give out or sell and many music artists sell to the brokers to get even more $$. They're in on the act. I'm not sure if Swift does it she's so crazy rich to begin with.
Do you honestly think that she is concerned about PR?!? All she has to do is post about her new boyfriend or recent breakup and millions of mindless girls, of all ages, with be throwing money at her. What does she care about what Ticketmaster does!
