Update August 1st, 2018:
Perpetrator has already taken down her Facebook profile and turned her mobile off.
Singapore Police Force called back just now to inform me that they’ve now launched an investigation looking into this matter, as they’ve received several reports from various sources about the same person using the same phone # going around scamming people with her fake tickets!
Some were a lot more unfortunate than I was as they had already made payment to this lady and received blank envelopes. Police urged me to advise everyone else who’ve come across this scammer to lodge a police report immediately!!!
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I’m not one to usually post about these things, but I feel it’s my social responsibility to alert all of my friends to scammers who misuse our sympathy!!!
I was really excited to have someone reach out to me about selling her tickets to JJ Lin’s concert at cost price because she shared her sob story about her boyfriend leaving her, so she said it was too painful to attend it without him. So out of sympathy and pure excitement to attend JJ’s concert, I decided to purchase her tickets.
Initially, I tried several attempts to ask her for a face-to-face meetup, but she refused as she said she felt uncomfortable meeting in person. She proceeded to tell me she was already at the post office and was ready to have her tickets mailed to my address. As soon as she did so, she requested for me to send her money immediately. In the spur of the moment, I was about to pay her S$700 for them but decided I felt uncomfortable doing so, so I mentioned to her that I will only pay her when I’ve received and validated the tickets. However, I never expected the series of events that unfolded throughout the rest of the day…
I finally received “said” tickets in mail today, and in it was a blank piece of paper…
May have been a fake profile …@敏思
https://www.facebook.com/xtinechao/posts/10160533175240648