We have just become aware of a Villages Entertainment scam. My friend Sandy went to buy tickets for the Angie Rose concert at The Sharon. She went to the Sharon website and the phone number there was apparently pirated by a scammer. She ordered two tickets. She was told the price was $79 each. She may have been a little naïve, but she bought two for $79 each and later learned the regular price was $26. Interestingly she received an email advising her that she could pick up her two tickets at the box office. When she picked them up, she was advised they were only $26 when she was handed the two tickets for what she had paid $159 + eight dollars handling fee.
The scammer was pretty clever. Sandy got two tickets which the scammer had arranged, but he pocketed the other hundred dollars but made sure she got the two tickets. Obviously he or she plans to continue this practice for those naïve enough to pay more than the face value of the tickets and give him or her their credit card. Sandy thought she was giving her card number to someone at Villages Entertainment.
Interestingly, the acting manager of The Sharon advised us there has been a lot of this scamming recently. He advised us to only buy tickets at the Entertainment ticket office to make sure we weren’t talking to a telephone scammer. Accordingly we advise everyone else to do that since you can’t be sure now that you are talking to someone on the phone from Villages Entertainment when you order tickets…